Metamaterials

How AI inverse design and 4D printing are shaping mechanical metamaterials

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Engineers are increasingly combining generative design algorithms with 4D printing to create mechanical metamaterials whose behavior is defined by geometry rather than chemistry. Instead of selecting a material and testing its limits, designers can now specify a target mechanical response and generate a microarchitecture to achieve it. One of the clearest demonstrations of this inverse … Read more

Trapping of single atoms in metasurface optical tweezer arrays

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Kaufman, A. M. & Ni, K.-K. Quantum science with optical tweezer arrays of ultracold atoms and molecules. Nat. Phys. 17, 1324–1333 (2021). Article  Google Scholar  Browaeys, A. & Lahaye, T. Many-body physics with individually controlled Rydberg atoms. Nat. Phys. 16, 132–142 (2020). Article  Google Scholar  Graham, T. M. et al. Multi-qubit entanglement and algorithms on … Read more