Purdue University civil engineers have developed innovative materials that can dissipate energy caused by bending, compression, torque, and tensile stresses without sustaining permanent damage. These ...

Plants and animals can rapidly respond to changes in their environment, such as a Venus flytrap snapping shut when a fly touches it. However, replicating similar actions in soft robots requires ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from the National University of Singapore have created a new class of intelligent materials. It has the structure of a two-dimensional material, but behaves like an ...

Purdue University civil engineering researchers have developed patent-pending intelligent architected materials that can dissipate energy caused by bending, compression, torque and tensile stresses, ...

A research team has developed soft composite systems with highly programmable, asymmetric mechanical responses. By integrating "shear-jamming transitions" into compliant polymeric solids, this ...

In testing, the mats were capable of withstanding over 5,000 landing and takeoff cycles over a 60-day period while showing no signs of failure. (Photo courtesy of Purdue University) Purdue University ...

As technology evolves, so must the materials that comprise it. There is an unceasing quest to create new forms of intelligent, active matter that can create its own energy, sense, compute, and ...

Today, magnetic field sensors are one of the invisible mass-produced products in the electronics industry. They measure movement, positions or distances and can be found in window contacts, steering ...

Plants and animals can rapidly respond to changes in their environment, such as a Venus flytrap snapping shut when a fly touches it. However, replicating similar actions in soft robots requires ...

Pablo Zavattieri, the Jerry M. and Lynda T. Engelhardt professor in civil engineering, lifts an aircraft runway mat made with new intelligent architected materials developed at Purdue University ...