Programmable Matter

Abstract

Our final report for this program summerizes how we (Harvard) have greatly improved our understanding of assembly using magnetic levitation, and mechanical agitation. Additionally, we report on how we have developed several types of soft-actuators that change compliance and shape based on pneumatic pressurization. The Nuzzo group (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) describe a new form of stimuli-responsive polymeric actuator-a chemically-driven, mechano-polymer-that provides a new approach to effecting efficient,

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 03, 2012
Accession Number
ADA558699

Entities

People

  • Bartosz Andrzej Grzybowski
  • George M. Whitesides
  • Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan
  • Michael P. Brenner
  • Ralph Nuzzo
  • Zhigang Suo

Organizations

  • Harvard University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Advanced Materials
  • Assembly
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Construction
  • Maglev
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Oxidation Reduction Reactions
  • Particles
  • Self Assembly
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Nanocomposite Materials Science
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.