{"id":222152,"date":"2025-09-19T03:26:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/shape-shifting-material-could-transform-future-of-implantable-and-ingestible-medical-devices"},"modified":"2025-09-19T03:26:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:26:27","slug":"shape-shifting-material-could-transform-future-of-implantable-and-ingestible-medical-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/shape-shifting-material-could-transform-future-of-implantable-and-ingestible-medical-devices","title":{"rendered":"Shape-shifting material could transform future of implantable and ingestible medical devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hyRSt-krpwo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers led by Rice University\u2019s Yong Lin Kong have developed a soft but strong metamaterial that can be controlled remotely to rapidly transform its size and shape.<\/p>\n<p>The invention, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adu3749\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, represents a significant advancement that can potentially transform ingestible and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/implantable+medical+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">implantable medical devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Metamaterials are synthetic constructs that exhibit unusual properties not typically found in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/natural+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">natural materials<\/a>. Instead of relying solely on <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/chemical+composition\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical composition<\/a>, the effective behavior of these materials is primarily determined by the physical structure, i.e., the specific shape, arrangement and scale of their building blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers led by Rice University\u2019s Yong Lin Kong have developed a soft but strong metamaterial that can be controlled remotely to rapidly transform its size and shape. The invention, published in Science Advances, represents a significant advancement that can potentially transform ingestible and implantable medical devices. Metamaterials are synthetic constructs that exhibit unusual properties not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}