Robo-Matter towards reconfigurable multifunctional smart materials.

ABSTRACT: Maximizing materials utilization efficiency via enhancing their reconfigurability and multifunctionality offers a promising avenue in addressing the global challenges in sustainability. To this end, significant efforts have been made in developing reconfigurable multifunctional smart materials, which can exhibit remarkable behaviors such as morphing and self-healing. However, the difficulty in efficiently manipulating and controlling matter at the building block level with manageable cost and complexity, which is crucial to achieving superior responsiveness to environmental clues and stimuli, has significantly hindered the further development of such smart materials. Here we introduce a concept of Robo-Matter, which can be activated and controlled through external information exchange at t

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11473820 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature