[1/6] Excited to share our latest research featured on the Science cover! Meet PAMs (Polycatenated Architected Materials)—a new class of 3D-architected materials that challenge traditional boundaries between solids and granular matter. Read our paper:

Watch microPAMs in action! ⚡ These millimeter-sized structures, attached atop a Van de Graaff generator, showing rapid shape morphing capabilities as charges turn on and off. A glimpse into the future of adaptive materials! —>

@loopyrapper @ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience Actually this is the paper behind it: But what you’re attaching is conceptually related, chainmail at even smaller (molecular) scales!

PAMs in Action! @ScienceMagazine Our paper: Related perspective article: Video source: Video credit: Wenjie Zhou and Peter Holderness/Caltech

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@wang_shunzhi Thanks, Andy!!

@zhigangsuo @RuobingB Thank you, Professor Suo!! We look forward to diving deeper into PAMs by looking into their fracture behaviors!

@JenniferALewis1 Thank you, Professor Lewis!!

RT @ScienceMagazine: This week in Science, researchers present a library of 3D polycatenated architected materials with intriguing deformat…

@Caltech @CaltechEAS @Livermore_Lab @Princeton

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@RiyanMendonsa @dryeeseeks @Materials_MRS Yes, also SLS and SLM for Nylon and Metal. Thanks for your interest in our work!

@RiyanMendonsa @dryeeseeks @Materials_MRS This particular one was a demo art which was hand made, I believe Daryl was referring to the work where we investigated all 3D printed polycatenated architected materials: