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Magnet-controlled soft metamaterial shifts shape, locks form for safer medical devices

By 3D-printing intricate microarchitectures, engineers created a soft metamaterial that remembers its transformed shape.

Shape-shifting material could transform future of implantable and ingestible medical devices

Researchers led by Rice University's Yong Lin Kong have developed a soft but strong metamaterial that can be controlled remotely to rapidly transform its size and shape.

BYD Obtains Utility Model Patent Authorization: 'Intelligent Surface Structure, Electronic Devices, Seat Controllers, Window Controllers, and Vehicles'

This disclosure relates to an intelligent surface structure, electronic devices, seat controllers, window controllers, and vehicles. The intelligent surface structure includes a decorative layer (2), ...
Science Daily

Mess is best: Disordered structure of battery-like devices improves performance

The energy density of supercapacitors -- battery-like devices that can charge in seconds or a few minutes -- can be improved by increasing the 'messiness' of their internal structure. Researchers used ...
Nature

MIIT Key Laboratory for Low-dimensional Quantum Structure and Devices, BIT

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