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4D PRINTING. "What if things could be made to have a kind of memory, allowing it to transform, assemble or replicate itself? Or even repair themselves, adapting to various functions, over time." https://lnkd.in/d7VC6uu View in LinkedIn

SELF-ASSEMBLING HOMES. "Buildings incorporate programmable matter could have reconfigurable floor plans, interact with inhabitants, determine controllable failure modes, and rebuild themselves after disasters." https://lnkd.in/dGPJJNA View in LinkedIn

MULTIPURPOSE MATERIALS. "A product made from programmed wood grains, for example, could be shipped flat and then programmed to transform into its ultimate shape–a bookshelf or a chair, for instance." https://lnkd.in/dpEq-ym View in LinkedIn

STRATEGIES FOR PROGRAMMABLE MATTER. "There are two primary approaches to programmable matter: bottom-up attempts to change the behavior of materials at the atomic or molecular level, and top-down approaches to create miniature robotic systems that interact closely with one another to form a larger item." https://lnkd.in/dGPJJNA View in LinkedIn

SENSATE MATERIALS. "The Self-Assembly Lab at MIT has developed a method for programming materials such as hybrid plastics, wood grains, textiles, and carbon fiber to adjust their property and shape in response to anticipated conditions like an increase in temperature, pressure, or moisture." https://lnkd.in/dpEq-ym View in LinkedIn

DARPA SHAPE-SHIFTERS. "Blurring the line between materials and mechanics, it may even result in new states of matter. One possibility are "infoliquids"and "infosolids", materials than straddle the line between solid and liquid, with information encoded into its chemistry. Another possibility is the creation of robots that can shift sizes and even states of matter to squeeze through narrow passages or around obstacles." https://lnkd.in/d9CztUV View in LinkedIn

TRANSFORMING MATERIALS. "What if you could train or, more precisely, program a material like wood, carbon or rubber to virtually complete the manufacturing process of whatever object it is destined to become? And what if the material continued transforming, adapting to its function or various functions?" https://lnkd.in/dpEq-ym View in LinkedIn

"4D PRINTING is fundamentally 3D printing with the added capability of materials transforming over time." https://lnkd.in/dirgGK8 View in LinkedIn

DNA STABILIZATION. "Thermal resistance of the DNA double helix appears to be improved in hyperthermophiles by reverse gyrase, a unique type I DNA topoisomerase that causes positive supertwists for stabilization. The secondary structure of ribonucleic acids appears to be stabilized against thermal destruction by an increased content of GC base pairs within the stem areas and by post-transcriptional modification." https://lnkd.in/dk75SNX View in LinkedIn

MEMBRANE MONOLAYER. "Analyses of the related extreme acidophile F. acidiphilum confirmed that its membranes are also dominated by tetraethers rather than diethers. We propose that a membrane monolayer is a key characteristic that enables archaea to live in acid."" "" " View in LinkedIn