Mechanical Metamaterials & Structural and Functional Optimization
Chairs: Heiko Andrä, Chris Eberl
Elastodynamic metamaterials have unusual mechanical properties mainly due to their internal structure, which is often composed of an array of unit cells. Thus, although they are built on the same principle as biological structures, they are less robust and cannot adapt to changing environmental conditions. New manufacturing techniques combined with new multiscale structure optimization methods make it possible to develop and manufacture mechanical metamaterials with variable, locally optimized unit cells. (More information)
Polymers with Sequence Control
Chairs: Stefan Reinicke, Filip du Prez, Alexander Böker
The attempt to realize emerging applications such as sophisticated data storage approaches, adaptive systems/materials or compartmentalized materials for next level catalysis will only be possible when having access to materials showing an enhanced level of functionality. Synthetic protocols to program desired features into polymeric materials thus become increasingly important. (More information)
Shape Memory Polymers & Programmable Property Profiles
Chairs: Thorsten Pretsch, Jean-Marie Raquez, Weimin Huang
The vision of programmable materials is to integrate an “on-demand” function directly into a material. This would allow programmable materials to adapt to any changing environmental conditions in a predetermined manner. Shape memory polymers belong to this emerging class as programmable materials. According to the traditional one-way programming approach, a shape memory polymer is thermomechanically treated to temporarily fix an imposed shape and allow shape recovery after the application of an external stimulus such as heat. The recent approach of programmable materials goes a step further by focusing on programming two-way effects into the same shape memory polymers. (More information)
Design Ideas from Nature
Chairs: Alexander Böker, Peter Fratzl
The future of massively digital industrial applications will require materials that are no longer passive components of active devices, but become themselves operational as carriers of information. Indeed, information stored in smart materials that are responsive and even adaptive does not need to be centrally processed which is both time and energy consuming. This is analogous to natural systems where every activity is distributed over many length scales, from molecule to tissue, organ and the whole organism, and where information is processed both in the periphery and centrally in the brain. (More information)
livMatS symposium on energy harvesting, storage and conversion for Programmable Materials
Chairs: Thomas Speck, Chris Eberl
livMatS develops life-like materials systems inspired by nature. The systems will adapt autonomously to their environment, harvest clean energy from it, and be insensitive to damage or recover from it. The key goal of livMatS is to make the transition from equilibrium or "deeply frozen" metastable, and thus static, materials to dynamic, life-like, non-equilibrium materials systems. The cluster has identified key principles to make this decisive advance towards materials systems. (More information)
- Hybrid event: the speakers should be giving their talks live in Berlin (of course taking into account the corona regulations)
- Online-Stream and possibility of taking part in the discussion online
- Virtual poster presentation
- Pannel discussions
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