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ArticleScience advances2025

Soft multistable magnetic-responsive metamaterials.

Taylor E Greenwood, Brian Elder, Md Nahid Hasan, Jared Anklam, Saebom Lee, Jian Teng, Pai Wang, Yong Lin Kong

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Article in Science advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  6. Magneto-X Effects in Magnetic Soft Materials and Their Applications.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Taylor E GreenwoodDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4323-3387
Brian ElderDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5129-5273
Md Nahid HasanDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2246-854X
Jared AnklamDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.ORCID 0009-0003-4032-5627
Saebom LeeDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
Jian TengDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0262-5680
Pai WangDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7829-8519
Yong Lin KongDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0270-2068

Funding

Ingestible gastric-resident electronic metamaterials architecture (iGEM) for the treatment of obesityR01EB032959 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI KONG, YONG LIN · 2022 to 2025
$1.4M
3D printed resonant-enhanced sensors (PRES) for total joint arthroplastiesR21EB029563 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI KONG, YONG LIN · 2020 to 2020
$606k
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB032959NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB029563
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The wireless actuation of magnetic soft architectures can enable complex functionalities important in biomedicine and soft robotics. However, transforming and maintaining a device's desired geometry without a sustained energy input remains challenging, especially where environmental stresses can be unpredictable. Here, we create a soft multistable magnetic-responsive metamaterial with programmable energy barriers enabled by a bistable geometry made entirely from soft material. The multistability and magnetic programming enable the soft metamaterials to reversibly transform between stable states, even under mechanical and thermal stresses that far exceed physiological conditions. In addition, the metamaterials can sustain compressive loads more than 10 times their mass, achieve shape reconfiguration in remote and confined spaces, and wirelessly deliver fluids against pressure, suggesting a broad range of future biomedical and soft robot applications.

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PMID40668922
PMCPMC12266116

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