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Intelligent soft matter stands at the intersection of materials science, physics, and cognitive science, promising to change how we design and interact with materials. This transformative field seeks to create materials that possess…

The design of intelligent materials often draws parallels with the complex adaptive behaviors of biological organisms, where robust functionality stems from sophisticated hierarchical organization and emergent long-distance coordination…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-13 Vladimir A. Baulin , Rudolf M. Füchslin , Achille Giacometti , Helmut Hauser , Marco Werner

Reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials, composed of a lattice of discretely adaptive elements, are emerging as a promising platform for mechanical intelligence. To operate in unknown environments, such structures must go beyond passive…

Biological intelligence is inherently adaptive -- animals continually adjust their actions based on environmental feedback. However, creating adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) remains a major challenge. The next frontier is to go beyond…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-06 Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis

Learning to change shape is a fundamental strategy of adaptation and evolution of living organisms, from bacteria and cells to tissues and animals. Human-made materials can also exhibit advanced shape morphing capabilities, but lack the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-31 Yao Du , Ryan van Mastrigt , Jonas Veenstra , Corentin Coulais

This paper summarizes the most recent research in soft robotic field from the factors of material, actuation, mechanicsproperty, dimension & scale and architecture, and then presents the relations among the functionalities, manufacturing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Mengqi Shen

Since the surge of data in materials science research and the advancement in machine learning methods, an increasing number of researchers are introducing machine learning techniques into the next generation of materials discovery, ranging…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-12 Maya M. Martirossyan , Hongjin Du , Julia Dshemuchadse , Chrisy Xiyu Du

Active metamaterials are engineered structures that possess novel properties that can be changed after the point of manufacture. Their novel properties arise predominantly from their physical structure, as opposed to their chemical…

This review provides an introduction to the essential physics of soft adhesion, including the thermodynamics of adhesion and wetting, the mechanics of contact with deformable materials, and the material properties that most affect…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-23 Katharine E. Jensen , Chelsea S. Davis

A brief introduction to the theory and phenomenology of soft interactions is given, focusing on total and elastic cross sections and multiparticle production.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralph Engel

Metamaterials are nano-engineered media with designed properties beyond those available in nature with applications in all aspects of materials science. In particular, metamaterials have shown promise for next generation of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Prashant Shekhar , Jonathan Atkinson , Zubin Jacob

Soft materials, such as colloidal suspensions, polymer solutions, and biological systems, are typically multicomponent mixtures of macromolecules and simpler components (e.g., microions, monomers, solvent) that can assemble into complex…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Alan R. Denton

Responsive, adaptive and intelligent are widely used but inconsistently defined descriptors of soft matter. A conceptual framework is proposed in which the three classes are information channels of increasing architectural complexity: a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-29 George S. Attard

Metamaterials are artificially engineered devices that go beyond the properties of conventional materials in nature. Metamaterials allow the creation of negative refractive indexes, light trapping with epsilon-near-zero compounds, bandgap…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-01 Antonio Alex-Amor , Angel Palomares-Caballero , Carlos Molero

We propose a novel approach for efficient tuning of the transmission characteristics of metamaterials through a continuous adjustment of the lattice structure, and confirm it experimentally in the microwave range. The concept is rather…

Artificial intelligence is transforming computational materials science, improving the prediction of material properties, and accelerating the discovery of novel materials. Recently, publicly available material data repositories have grown…

The complex behavior of highly deformable mechanical metamaterials can substantially enhance the performance of soft robots.

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-01 Ahmad Rafsanjani , Katia Bertoldi , André R. Studart

Soft robotics technology can aid in achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement through development of autonomous, environmentally responsible machines powered by renewable energy. By…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Goffredo Giordano , Saravana Prashanth Murali Babu , Barbara Mazzolai

Designing soft robots poses considerable challenges: automated design approaches may be particularly appealing in this field, as they promise to optimize complex multi-material machines with very little or no human intervention.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Francesco Corucci , Nick Cheney , Francesco Giorgio-Serchi , Josh Bongard , Cecilia Laschi

Artificial intelligence is gaining strength and materials science can both contribute to and profit from it. In a simultaneous progress race, new materials, systems and processes can be devised and optimized thanks to machine learning…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-29 Cefe López
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