Roadmap on embodying mechano-intelligence and computing in functional materials and structures
Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 34, pp. 063501
Abstract
Abstract This is a roadmap article with multiple contributors on different aspects of embodying intelligence and computing in the mechanical domain of functional materials and structures. Overall, an IOP roadmap article is a broad, multi-author review with leaders in the field discussing the latest developments, commissioned by the editorial board. The intention here is to cover various topics of adaptive structural and material systems with mechano-intelligence in the overall roadmap, with twelve sections in total. These sections cover topics from materials to devices to systems, such as computational metamaterials, neuromorphic materials, mechanical and material logic, mechanical memory, soft matter computing, physical reservoir computing, wave-based computing, morphological computing, mechanical neural networks, plant-inspired intelligence, pneumatic logic circuits, intelligent robotics, and embodying mechano-intelligence for engineering functionalities via physical computing. In this paper, we view all the sections with equal contributions to the overall roadmap article and thus list the authorship on the front page via alphabetical order of their last names. On the other hand, for each individual section, the authors decide on their own the order of authorship. (Abstract written by Guest Editors Kon-Well Wang (aka K W Wang) and Suyi Li.)
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Photonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York
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Purdue University West Lafayette
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School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088, United States of America
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Italian Institute of Technology
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Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Bioinspired Soft Robotics Laboratory, Genoa, Italy
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North Carolina State University
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Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America
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Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States of America
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Exponent, Inc., Atlanta, GA 30326, United States of America
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School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Chinese University of Hong Kong · University of Pennsylvania
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Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States of America
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China 999077, People’s Republic of China
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States of America
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, United States of America
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Italian Institute of Technology
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Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Bioinspired Soft Robotics Laboratory, Genoa, Italy
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Italian Institute of Technology
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Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Bioinspired Soft Robotics Laboratory, Genoa, Italy
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Italian Institute of Technology
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Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Bioinspired Soft Robotics Laboratory, Genoa, Italy
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Institute of Applied Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Rice University, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005, United States of America
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Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70118, United States of America
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Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States of America
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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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Flexible Structures Laboratory, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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University of Tennessee at Knoxville
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Department of Mechanical Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America
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School of Medicine and College of Engineering, Koç University, 34450 Istanbul, Turkey
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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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Flexible Structures Laboratory, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Leiden University · Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics
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AMOLF, Science Park 104, Amsterdam 1098 XG, The Netherlands
Huygens-Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Universiteit Leiden, PO Box 9504, Leiden 2300 RA, The Netherlands
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University of Michigan, 2468 GGB, 2350 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America
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