ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Animating Metamaterials using Non-Reciprocity
Living materials such as cells, tissues and simple organisms are animate. They autonomously and adaptively navigate their environment and are resilient to damage. Can we take inspiration from Nature and create synthetic animate materials? This dream has now become tangible thanks to major progress in the field of mechanical metamaterials. Metamaterials are composites that exhibit exceptional properties by leveraging geometric effects within their architecture. For example, they exhibit on-demand shape-changes and guide waves unidirectionally. Such functionalities are extremely promising to achieve animacy: pairing unidirectional waves with shape-changes can power locomotion—a crucial aspect…
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