Digital metamaterials will greatly simplify metamaterials while still allowing complexity and diverse properties. April 7, 2017 September 17, 2014 by Brian Wang. A proposed method for digital ...

They combine the tailored geometry of metamaterials with the programmability of digital systems. The key to DMM technology lies in bistability—a concept borrowed from digital circuits. Just like a ...

Digital synthesis of free-form multimaterial structures for realization of arbitrary programmed mechanical responses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2022; 119 (10) DOI: 10.1073 ...

The new digital mechanical metamaterial aims to overcome these limitations using an elegantly simple concept - encoding mechanical information into graphical stiffness patterns, much like how digital ...

The concept of “digital metamaterials” – a simple way of designing metamaterials with bizarre optical properties that could hasten the development of devices such as invisibility cloaks and ...

Researchers categorize origami- and kirigami-based mechanical metamaterials, artificially engineered materials with unusual mechanical properties, and subdivided them into rigid or deformable ...

The three innermost leaves contain three basic bistable units. The intermediate ring describes the basic preparation methods of multistable metamaterials: 3D printing (DIW, FDM, SLA, PolyJet, PBF ...

How can additive manufacturing and metamaterials improve healthcare for aging populations? In a review published in the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, researchers examine how 3D ...

More information: Carlos Perez‐Garcia et al, Reprogrammable Mechanical Metamaterials via Passive and Active Magnetic Interactions, Advanced Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202412353.

Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and Harvard University have experimentally demonstrated that new artificial materials known as metamaterials, with magnetic properties, can ...