Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Digital logic gates in soft, conductive mechanical metamaterials

  • Charles El Helou,
  • Philip R. Buskohl,
  • Christopher E. Tabor,
  • Ryan L. Harne

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21920-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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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.