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The structural complexity of metamaterials is limitless, although in practice, most designs comprise periodic architectures which lead to materials with spatially homogeneous features. More advanced tasks, arising in e.g. soft robotics,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-03 Corentin Coulais , Eial Teomy , Koen de Reus , Yair Shokef , Martin van Hecke

Mechanical metamaterial is a synthetic material that can possess extraordinary physical characteristics, such as abnormal elasticity, stiffness, and stability, by carefully designing its internal structure. To make metamaterials contain…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yanyan Yang , Lili Wang , Xiaoya Zhai , Kai Chen , Wenming Wu , Yunkai Zhao , Ligang Liu , Xiao-Ming Fu

Polymer 3D printing is a broad set of manufacturing methods that permit the fabrication of complex architectures, and, as a result, numerous efforts focus on formulating processible chemistries that produce desirable material behavior in…

The emergence of metamaterial has provided an unprecedented ability to manipulate electromagnetic waves, especially in the terahertz band where there is a lack of natural response materials. However, most metamaterials are fixed single…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-12 Bo Yu , Lesiqi Yin , Peng Wang , Cheng Gong

Vacuum-forming is a common manufacturing technique for constructing thin plastic shell products by pressing heated plastic sheets onto a mold using atmospheric pressure. Vacuum-forming is ubiquitous in packaging and casing products in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Freddie Hong , Luca Tendera , Connor Myant , David Boyle

Freeform thin-shell surfaces are critical in various fields, but their fabrication is complex and costly. Traditional methods are wasteful and require custom molds, while 3D printing needs extensive support structures and post-processing.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chao Yuan , Nan Cao , Xuejiao Ma , Shengqi Dang

Programmable shape-shifting materials can take different physical forms to achieve multifunctionality in a dynamic and controllable manner. Although morphing a shape from 2D to 3D via programmed inhomogeneous local deformations has been…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-05 Hillel Aharoni , Yu Xia , Xinyue Zhang , Randall D. Kamien , Shu Yang

Design - especially of physical objects - can be understood as creative acts solving practical problems. In this paper we describe a biologically-inspired developmental model as the basis of a generative form-finding system. Using local…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jon McCormack , Camilo Cruz Gambardella

The reproduction of automobile components through additive manufacturing presents significant geometric challenges, as many automotive parts feature complex, organically shaped surfaces that are difficult to fabricate accurately using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Uzair Aziz Muhammad , Zheng Liu

Printing has drawn a lot of attention as a means of low per-unit cost and high throughput patterning of graphene inks for scaled-up thin-form factor device manufacturing. However, traditional printing processes require a flat surface and…

3D and 4D printing are cutting-edge technologies for precise and expedited manufacturing of objects ranging from plastic to metal. Recent advances in 3D and 4D printing technologies in dentistry and maxillofacial surgery enable dentists to…

Active colloidal particles provide versatile model systems for exploring non-equilibrium physics in motile matter. To date, most experimental realizations have focused on spherical particles, largely due to fabrication constraints. However,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-10 Mengshi Wei , Daniela J. Kraft

Transforming planar mesoscale devices into precise 3-D architectures is vital for next-generation flexible electronics, implants, and adaptive optics, yet wafer-based manufacturing to free-standing 3-D structures remain elusive. We…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Yue Wang , Kelvin Shum , Yuyang Song , Tian Chen

Liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) has been intensively utilized in 4D printing techniques to fabricate smart structures with reversible actuation on the basis of appropriate alignment of liquid crystal (LC) molecules. As a non-contact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-15 Yueping Wang , Jongwon An , Hongseok Kim , Sehui Jeong , Hyunggyu Kim , Jaesung Park , Seunggyu Ko , Jinho Son , Howon Lee

This paper presents a novel decoder-based approach for generating manufacturable 3D structures optimized for additive manufacturing. We introduce a deep learning framework that decodes latent representations into geometrically valid,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Abhishek Kumar

Optical imaging technologies are central to discovery in the life and physical sciences, yet their impact depends on how readily they can be built, adapted, and sustained across laboratories. Digital fabrication, including desktop 3D…

The future of 3D printing utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents a promising capability to revolutionize manufacturing and to enable the creation of large-scale structures in remote and hard- to-reach areas e.g. in other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Marios-Nektarios Stamatopoulos , Avijit Banerjee , George Nikolakopoulos

Nowadays is very common to find headlines in the media where it is stated that 3D printing is a technology called to change our lives in the near future. For many authors, we are living in times of a third industrial revolution. Howerver,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-08 L. J. Salazar-Serrano , A. Valencia , J. P. Torres

The electrical machinery core is formed with a ferromagnetic material that offers high magnetic properties. As ferromagnetic materials have high relative magnetic permeability, they are important in the formation of electromagnetic device…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Shinthia Binte Eskender , Anupam Saha , Shaikh Ishtiaque Ahmed

Three-dimensional (3D) printing of bioelectronics offers a versatile platform for fabricating personalized and structurally integrated electronic systems within biological scaffolds. Biodegradable electronics, which naturally dissolve after…