Encoding and Storage of Information in Mechanical Metamaterials (Adv. Sci. 20/2023)

Mechanical Metamaterials Information processing such as computing and storage using material's own properties has gained increasing interest. Mechanical metamaterials, due to their diversity of deformation modes and wide design space, offer a promising avenue for such purposes. The shown mechanical metamaterial, encoded with multiple layers of information, can be decoded to obtain multiple surfaces in sequence by applying pre-determined stretching and heating regimen. This approach serves as a general framework to encode and store data using mechanical metamaterials. More details can be found in article number 2301581 by Chang Qing Chen and co-workers.