Engineered metamaterials use embedded, distributed learning to autonomously adapt shape, remember past states, and optimize performance in real time — blurring boundaries between passive materials and active, life-like systems with applications in robotics, medicine, and aerospace
Metamaterials that learn to change shape - Nature Physics
Physical networks can learn to accomplish tasks on the fly by adjusting their internal parameters. Now it is shown that such physical learning can be achieved in metamaterials that can learn to change...
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April 8, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Engineered metamaterials use embedded, distributed learning to autonomously adapt shape, remember past states, and optimize performance in real time — blurring boundaries between passive materials and active, life-like systems with applications in robotics, medicine, and aerospace
Nature research paper: Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling
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https://go.nature.com/3DBnicp
Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling - Nature
High-enthalpy elastic metamaterials constructed from freely rotatable chiral metacells have high stiffness, large recoverable strain and improved buckling strength.
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March 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Nature research paper: Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling
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https://go.nature.com/3DBnicp
New research from @fpichaud.bsky.social and University of Seville researchers found that developing fruit fly retinas behave like metamaterials, folding from flat cellular patterns into precise 3D structures. www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...
#UCLLifeSciences #Biomaterials #Metamaterials
#UCLLifeSciences #Biomaterials #Metamaterials
Fly eyes reveal nature's blueprint for metamaterials
Scientists have discovered that fly eyes develop as natural programmable metamaterials, revealing an "origami" blueprint that could inspire biomaterials, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
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July 8, 2026 at 1:48 PM
New research from @fpichaud.bsky.social and University of Seville researchers found that developing fruit fly retinas behave like metamaterials, folding from flat cellular patterns into precise 3D structures. www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...
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Pah! Physics is just chemistry minus the fun! ^^
I think spintronics or metamaterials will make it.
I think spintronics or metamaterials will make it.
October 2, 2023 at 7:02 AM
Pah! Physics is just chemistry minus the fun! ^^
I think spintronics or metamaterials will make it.
I think spintronics or metamaterials will make it.
Nice review of shape-morphing metamaterials. The images alone tell much of the story about the rather wonderful materials we can now make.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2501.14804
www.arxiv.org/abs/2501.14804
Shape Morphing Metamaterials
Mechanical metamaterials leverage geometric design to achieve unconventional properties, such as high strength at low density, efficient wave guiding, and complex shape morphing. The ability to contro...
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February 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Nice review of shape-morphing metamaterials. The images alone tell much of the story about the rather wonderful materials we can now make.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2501.14804
www.arxiv.org/abs/2501.14804
If you are in London come to John Pendry's Dean's Annual Lecture on metamaterials! 🤩https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/184971/metamaterials-invisibility-and-perfect-lenses-a-new-world-for-electromagnetism/
Metamaterials, invisibility, and perfect lenses: a new world for electromagnetism
Frontiers in Natural Sciences: The Dean's Annual Lecture 2025
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December 1, 2024 at 12:30 PM
If you are in London come to John Pendry's Dean's Annual Lecture on metamaterials! 🤩https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/184971/metamaterials-invisibility-and-perfect-lenses-a-new-world-for-electromagnetism/
...Don't look at me I'm still writing space opera. All my imagination of the future is just "man wouldn't it be cool if AR and metamaterials and GMOs made everything cool as fuck?"
SF was in the process of petrifying into space opera. Now it has a Wells-sized opportunity, because we once again need help imagining an unimaginable future.
It must really suck to be a scifi writer right now. Writing a story that in some way touches on AI? If they're perfectly human-equivalent intelligences it'll read as out of date, if they're dumb in a way that's surpassed by current gen frontier models at time of publication it'll read as out of date
May 24, 2026 at 6:20 AM
...Don't look at me I'm still writing space opera. All my imagination of the future is just "man wouldn't it be cool if AR and metamaterials and GMOs made everything cool as fuck?"
How to use Hilbert fractal patterns to design acoustic metamaterials and tailor transmission loss. The paper is open access here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 6, 2023 at 1:17 PM
How to use Hilbert fractal patterns to design acoustic metamaterials and tailor transmission loss. The paper is open access here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cool terms and/or writing tips from the latest issue of Aerospace Science and Technology
- morphing forebody mechanisms
- auxetic chiral metamaterials
- crashworthiness
- transonic wing
- deployable ribbed mechanism
- blade tip vortex
- waverider airframe
- random forest
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- morphing forebody mechanisms
- auxetic chiral metamaterials
- crashworthiness
- transonic wing
- deployable ribbed mechanism
- blade tip vortex
- waverider airframe
- random forest
🧪 🔭
August 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Cool terms and/or writing tips from the latest issue of Aerospace Science and Technology
- morphing forebody mechanisms
- auxetic chiral metamaterials
- crashworthiness
- transonic wing
- deployable ribbed mechanism
- blade tip vortex
- waverider airframe
- random forest
🧪 🔭
- morphing forebody mechanisms
- auxetic chiral metamaterials
- crashworthiness
- transonic wing
- deployable ribbed mechanism
- blade tip vortex
- waverider airframe
- random forest
🧪 🔭
Tomorrow, I officially start my new adventure as Associate Editor at Opt. Express! @optica.bsky.social
I am looking forward to receiving your solid research on nonlinear optics, nanophotonics and Metamaterials! opg.optica.org/content/jour...
I am looking forward to receiving your solid research on nonlinear optics, nanophotonics and Metamaterials! opg.optica.org/content/jour...
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November 30, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Tomorrow, I officially start my new adventure as Associate Editor at Opt. Express! @optica.bsky.social
I am looking forward to receiving your solid research on nonlinear optics, nanophotonics and Metamaterials! opg.optica.org/content/jour...
I am looking forward to receiving your solid research on nonlinear optics, nanophotonics and Metamaterials! opg.optica.org/content/jour...
Haven’t mentioned it publicly, but I’m looking for my next job!
Please reach out if you hear of any interesting opportunities. You can learn more about who I am and what I can do at my portfolio site:
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Please reach out if you hear of any interesting opportunities. You can learn more about who I am and what I can do at my portfolio site:
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Haven’t mentioned it publicly, but I’m looking for my next job!
Please reach out if you hear of any interesting opportunities. You can learn more about who I am and what I can do at my portfolio site:
reshef.ca
Please reach out if you hear of any interesting opportunities. You can learn more about who I am and what I can do at my portfolio site:
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Nature research paper: Programming fracture resistance in metamaterials via elastic instabilities
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Programming fracture resistance in metamaterials via elastic instabilities - Nature
Elastic instabilities in mechanical metamaterials can be harnessed to programme fracture behaviour, transforming instability from a failure mechanism into a design principle that increases fracture energy by up to tenfold.
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July 20, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Nature research paper: Programming fracture resistance in metamaterials via elastic instabilities
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Time-reversal lens realized! Wildeman, Eddi & Fort ( @instlangevin.bsky.social / @utwente.bsky.social / @pmmh-lab.bsky.social ) use a spatiotemporal meta-surface to focus water waves via electrostriction. A leap in compact wave control. doi.org/10.1364/OME....
#WavePhysics #Metamaterials #CNRS
#WavePhysics #Metamaterials #CNRS
September 21, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Time-reversal lens realized! Wildeman, Eddi & Fort ( @instlangevin.bsky.social / @utwente.bsky.social / @pmmh-lab.bsky.social ) use a spatiotemporal meta-surface to focus water waves via electrostriction. A leap in compact wave control. doi.org/10.1364/OME....
#WavePhysics #Metamaterials #CNRS
#WavePhysics #Metamaterials #CNRS
I either play D&D tonight or I work on a blog post about zero refractive index metamaterials.
December 7, 2023 at 11:39 PM
I either play D&D tonight or I work on a blog post about zero refractive index metamaterials.
Open position: Marie Curie PhD Fellowship in Mechanical Metamaterials.
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October 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Open position: Marie Curie PhD Fellowship in Mechanical Metamaterials.
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Creating Temporal Light Reflections With Metamaterials
Creating Temporal Light Reflections With Metamaterials
Owing to the wave nature of light there are many ways that such different waves can interact with each other, but also with materials. Everyone knows about reflecting light with …read more
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January 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Creating Temporal Light Reflections With Metamaterials
Author Correction: Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling
Nature, Published online: 23 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11189-wAuthor Correction: Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling
Nature, Published online: 23 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11189-wAuthor Correction: Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling
Author Correction: Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling
Nature, Published online: 23 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11189-wAuthor Correction: Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling
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September 23, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Author Correction: Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling
Nature, Published online: 23 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11189-wAuthor Correction: Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling
Nature, Published online: 23 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11189-wAuthor Correction: Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling
We are happy to announce that the Royal Society's Copley Medal 2025 is awarded to Professor Sir John Pendry FRS for work on the concept and designs of metamaterials that represent the greatest advance in electromagnetism since Faraday and Maxwell. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...
August 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We are happy to announce that the Royal Society's Copley Medal 2025 is awarded to Professor Sir John Pendry FRS for work on the concept and designs of metamaterials that represent the greatest advance in electromagnetism since Faraday and Maxwell. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...
And paper #2 here: Defect Positioning in Combinatorial Metamaterials doi.org/10.1103/mvrj...
Defect positioning in combinatorial metamaterials
Combinatorial mechanical metamaterials are made of anisotropic, flexible blocks, such that multiple metamaterials may be constructed using a single block type, and the system's response depends on the...
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July 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
And paper #2 here: Defect Positioning in Combinatorial Metamaterials doi.org/10.1103/mvrj...
New experiments have overturned a simple law of friction that has held for over 300 years. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/BbVg50YzEv1
Magnetic friction defies centuries-old law – Physics World
Sensing and programmable metamaterials could benefit from discovery
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March 27, 2026 at 11:43 AM
New experiments have overturned a simple law of friction that has held for over 300 years. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/BbVg50YzEv1
(Junior) Researcher for Computational design of mechanical metamaterials for 3D printed footwear https://www.academictransfer.com/364223/ @TUDelft
September 25, 2026 at 6:43 PM
(Junior) Researcher for Computational design of mechanical metamaterials for 3D printed footwear https://www.academictransfer.com/364223/ @TUDelft
I'm thrilled to share that I've accepted a PhD position at Leiden University working on metamaterials for adaptive optics, starting later this year! ✨🔭
February 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I'm thrilled to share that I've accepted a PhD position at Leiden University working on metamaterials for adaptive optics, starting later this year! ✨🔭
For those interested in our growing body of work on "polycomputation", here's my attempt to summarize it in 40 minutes:
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Computational granular metamaterials (CGMMs)
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October 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
For those interested in our growing body of work on "polycomputation", here's my attempt to summarize it in 40 minutes:
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