{"id":225921,"date":"2025-11-26T01:32:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/programmable-metamaterial-can-morph-into-more-configurations-than-there-are-atoms-in-the-universe"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:32:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:32:25","slug":"programmable-metamaterial-can-morph-into-more-configurations-than-there-are-atoms-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/programmable-metamaterial-can-morph-into-more-configurations-than-there-are-atoms-in-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Programmable metamaterial can morph into more configurations than there are atoms in the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/programmable-metamaterial-can-morph-into-more-configurations-than-there-are-atoms-in-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Wave Engineering for eXtreme and Intelligent maTErials (We-Xite) lab, led by engineering assistant professor Osama R. Bilal, has developed a reconfigurable metamaterial that can control sound waves\u2014bending them, dampening them, or focusing them\u2014while encoding real-time tuning with almost infinite possible shapes.<\/p>\n<p>Their work is now <a href=\"https:\/\/pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2502036122\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMetamaterials are artificial materials that can achieve extraordinary properties not easily found in nature,\u201d explains Ph.D. candidate Melanie Keogh \u201822 (ENG), the first author of the study. In this case, the research team wanted to develop a material that could control sound waves, while being adjustable in both frequency and function, with potential applications ranging from medical imaging to soundproofing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wave Engineering for eXtreme and Intelligent maTErials (We-Xite) lab, led by engineering assistant professor Osama R. Bilal, has developed a reconfigurable metamaterial that can control sound waves\u2014bending them, dampening them, or focusing them\u2014while encoding real-time tuning with almost infinite possible shapes. Their work is now published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225921","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=225921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}