Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and their collaborators have created a new class of programmable soft materials that can absorb impacts like never before, while also ...

Can there be materials that change shape according to one’s desire? If yes, then you could, for instance, make comfortable chairs and mattresses that never cause bedsores. Indeed, there are ...

This is a summary of a story that originally appeared on the Pratt School of Engineering. Mechanical engineers at Duke University have made a breakthrough in programmable materials that can be ...

Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a proof-of-concept method for programming mechanical properties into solid Lego-like building blocks. By controlling the solidity of hundreds ...

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and their collaborators have created a new class of programmable soft materials that can absorb impacts like never before, while also ...

Framework for nanoscale material design using programmable DNA systems enables precise control over structure, function, and immune signaling in soft materials. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Nucleic acids ...

This is a working model of the programmable material, shown on the cover of Advanced Materials, issue March 5th, 2014. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Engineers have invented stretchable surfaces with programmable 3-D texture morphing, a synthetic 'camouflaging skin' inspired by studying and modeling the real thing in octopus and cuttlefish. For the ...

Scientists have developed a stretchable and programmable camouflaging material inspired by the instantaneously changing skin of octopus and cuttlefish. For the octopus and cuttlefish, changing their ...