ArticleNature communications2024
Superlative mechanical energy absorbing efficiency discovered through self-driving lab-human partnership.
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- Chiral multi-curved shell metamaterials integrating compression-torsion and buckling mechanisms for ideal energy absorption.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Science acceleration and accessibility with self-driving labs.Nature communications · 2025Review
- Autonomous platform for solution processing of electronic polymers.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Bayesian optimization with Gaussian-process-based active machine learning for improvement of geometric accuracy in projection multi-photon 3D printing.Light, science & applications · 2025Article
- ASMI: An automated, low-cost indenter for soft matter.HardwareX · 2024Article
- Foams with 3D Spatially Programmed Mechanics Enabled by Autonomous Active Learning on Viscous Thread Printing.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Self-Driving Laboratories for Chemistry and Materials Science.Chemical reviews · 2024Review
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Abstract
Energy absorbing efficiency is a key determinant of a structure's ability to provide mechanical protection and is defined by the amount of energy that can be absorbed prior to stresses increasing to a level that damages the system to be protected. Here, we explore the energy absorbing efficiency of additively manufactured polymer structures by using a self-driving lab (SDL) to perform >25,000 physical experiments on generalized cylindrical shells. We use a human-SDL collaborative approach where experiments are selected from over trillions of candidates in an 11-dimensional parameter space using Bayesian optimization and then automatically performed while the human team monitors progress to periodically modify aspects of the system. The result of this human-SDL campaign is the discovery of a structure with a 75.2% energy absorbing efficiency and a library of experimental data that reveals transferable principles for designing tough structures.
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