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Bioinspired Soft‐Skeleton Robotics With Cooperative Shape Transformation and Stiffness Adaptation

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A bioinspired soft‐skeleton robot that integrates variable‐stiffness chain skeletons into a soft textile skin is developed. The chain skeletons are highly flexible initially but can stiffen upon pneumatic actuation, enabling large deformation and enhanced load‐bearing capacity.
Mengyuan Niu, Xiaorui Hu, Chenmin Yuan, Haoyun Li, Xuzhong Su, Fengxin Sun   +5 more
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Heterogeneous mechanical metamaterials: design paradigms, additive manufacturing, and emergent multifunctionality

Virtual and Physical Prototyping
Heterogeneous metamaterials constitute a new frontier in architected materials, combining multiphase compositions, hierarchical architectures, and coupled multi physics interactions to achieve unprecedented mechanical and functional performance.
Peng Wang, Aixu Liu, Yifan Wang, Hao Liang, Chunmei Li, Rui Xu, Yihao Yuan, Xujiang Chao, Fan Yang, Wenwang Wu   +9 more
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A Bottom‐Up Design Framework for Multifunctional Lattice Metamaterials

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study introduces a generative AI framework for designing multifunctional lattice metamaterials. The method combines 3D Gaussian voxel generation with deep learning, enabling greater design freedom and structural performance. The optimized lattice metamaterials achieve enhanced energy absorption by 40–200% compared to conventional structures and ...
Zongxin Hu, Quanqing Tao, Junhao Ding, Shuo Qu, Haitao Ye, Jun Wei Chua, Tianxiao Niu, Rui Li, Winston Wai Shing Ma, Haoming Mo, Hui Liu, Wei Zhai, Xinwei Li, Xu Song   +13 more
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Encoding Cumulation to Learn Perturbative Nonlinear Oscillatory Dynamics

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Weak nonlinearities critically shape the long term behavior of oscillatory systems but are difficult to identify from data. A data‐driven framework is introduced to infer governing equations of weakly nonlinear oscillators from sparse and noisy observations.
Teng Ma, Ting‐Ting Gao, Wei Cui, Attilio Frangi, Gang Yan, Lin Zhao   +5 more
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A systematic procedure for constructing connectivity matrices for 3D lattices comprising truncated regular octahedral tensegrity structures and its application to optimization

Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu
This study concerns establishing a mathematical model to analyze and design tensegrity structures built from repetitions of elementary structures, called the truncated regular octahedral tensegrity (TROT).
Kenji NAGASE, Daijiro NAGATA, Kazuma HASHIMOTO   +2 more
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Correction for Xiu et al., Synthetically non-Hermitian nonlinear wave-like behavior in a topological mechanical metamaterial. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023
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Photonic Time Crystals and Time‐Varying Electromagnetic Metamatter: A New Direction for Ultrafast Tunable Photonic and Microwave Materials and Devices

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Photonic time crystals (PTCs) are systems in which electromagnetic parameters are modulated periodically in time, producing momentum bandgaps via temporal scattering rather than spatial Bragg processes. This review examines the theoretical frameworks, modeling, and computational tools for time‐varying media, and summarizes experimental demonstrations ...
Ranjan Kumar Patel, Shriram Ramanathan, Ronald P. Jenkins, Michael J. Carter   +3 more
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Growth‐Like Swelling of 2D Precursors for Efficient Fabrication of Complex 3D Microstructures

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The growth‐like swelling process fills photocured polymers into the elastomeric microstructures, inducing a significant swelling deformation of microstructures that can be maintained in the absence of solvents. The growth‐like swelling process breaks through the dependence of swelling deformation on the solvents, thereby expanding the application of 3D
Xinkai Zhu, Liang Wang, Xiangming Li, Chuanhang Zeng, Tianxiang Lan, Guifang Liu, Yangfan Qiu, Junjiang Li, Qi Chen, Bangbang Nie, Hongmiao Tian, Xiaoliang Chen, Chunhui Wang, Jinyou Shao   +13 more
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Reconfigurable, Temperature Resilient Phase‐Change Metasurfaces Fabricated via High Throughput Nanoimprinting Lithography

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The combination of metasurfaces with chalcogenide phase‐change materials is a highly promising route toward the development of multifunctional and reconfigurable nanophotonic devices. However, their transition into real‐world devices is hindered by several technological challenges. This includes, amongst others, the lack of large area photonic
Carlota de Ruiz de Galarreta, Yinghao Zhao, Jose Mendoza‐Carreño, José M. Caicedo, José Santiso, C. David Wright, M. Isabel Alonso, Jiafang Li, Agustin Mihi   +8 more
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Hierarchical Artificial Muscle with Nonlinear Elasticity for Antagonistic and Cyclic Robotics

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We construct hierarchical muscles by plying nylon fibers around a heating wire. The hierarchical muscle shows a J‐shaped passive curve, which shows benefit in antagonistic muscle pair and work accumulation mechanism. We also develop a computational, first‐principle model to understand the physics of both active actuation stroke and passive J‐curve ...
Samuel Tsai, Liuyang Cheng, Ali Albazroun, Qiong Wang, Jeongmin Kim, Arman Tekinalp, Soonwook Kim, Charlie Simcox, Ryne Downing, Vagish Sivaramakrishnan, Grace Carsello, Miles Bimrose, Wonsik Eom, William P. King, Mattia Gazzola, Sameh Tawfick   +15 more
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