Digital logic gates in soft, conductive mechanical metamaterials

A method to cultivate decision-making in soft materials would provide a key step to autonomous engineered matter. Here, the authors report a class of conductive polymer-based mechanical metamaterials that process information by digital logic and permit logic gate assembly.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Charles El Helou, Philip R. Buskohl, Christopher E. Tabor, Ryan L. Harne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21920-y
Description
Summary:A method to cultivate decision-making in soft materials would provide a key step to autonomous engineered matter. Here, the authors report a class of conductive polymer-based mechanical metamaterials that process information by digital logic and permit logic gate assembly.
ISSN:2041-1723