{"id":96090,"date":"2019-09-11T16:02:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T23:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/new-metamaterial-morphs-into-new-shapes-taking-on-new-properties"},"modified":"2019-09-11T16:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T23:02:25","slug":"new-metamaterial-morphs-into-new-shapes-taking-on-new-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/new-metamaterial-morphs-into-new-shapes-taking-on-new-properties","title":{"rendered":"New metamaterial morphs into new shapes, taking on new properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-metamaterial-morphs-into-new-shapes-taking-on-new-properties.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly developed type of architected metamaterial has the ability to change shape in a tunable fashion.<\/p>\n<p>While most reconfigurable materials can toggle between two distinct states, the way a switch toggles on or off, the new material\u2019s shape can be finely tuned, adjusting its <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/physical+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">physical properties<\/a> as desired. The material, which has potential applications in next-generation energy storage and bio-implantable micro-devices, was developed by a joint Caltech-Georgia Tech-ETH Zurich team in the lab of Julia R. Greer.<\/p>\n<p>Greer, the Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics and Medical Engineering in Caltech\u2019s Division of Engineering and Applied Science, creates materials out of micro- and nanoscale building blocks that are arranged into sophisticated architectures that can be periodic, like a lattice, or non-periodic in a tailor-made fashion, giving them unusual physical properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly developed type of architected metamaterial has the ability to change shape in a tunable fashion. While most reconfigurable materials can toggle between two distinct states, the way a switch toggles on or off, the new material\u2019s shape can be finely tuned, adjusting its physical properties as desired. The material, which has potential applications [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96090","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}