Polymer Chemistry: Soft Mechanical Logic

Abstract

The overarching goal of the project is to develop new approaches to soft mechanical logic devices that can respond to environmental stimuli and perform non-trivial logical computation. During the one year of the project at UMass Amherst, we focused on two major objectives: 1. Understanding the flow of information in wires of mechanically coupled bistable elements 2. Developing a platform to enable studies of interactions between photothermally responsive elements that can be used to build computing architectures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 18, 2022
Accession Number
AD1199443

Entities

People

  • Christian Santangelo
  • Ryan C Hayward

Organizations

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Buckling
  • Chemistry
  • Computations
  • Computer Architecture
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Geometry
  • Logic
  • Logic Devices
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Oscillation
  • Oscillators
  • Particles
  • Platforms
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Polymers
  • Simulations
  • Stiffness
  • Students
  • Temperature Gradients

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Reinforced Composite Materials
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.