found: Work cat.: Chen, S. Building programmable matter through DNA-based chemical computing, 2019:abstr. (programmable DNA-hydrogels that produces tunable patterns at the centimeter length scale; programmable matter; programmable materials) p. 9 (The notion of "intelligent matter" has long captured the human imagination--objects that take up new functions and appearances on command are a fixture in many of our most enduring science fiction and fantasy stories. Today, active research is being directed toward bringing this idea to reality. Specifically, programmable matter research - an emerging field that leverages advances in electronics, nano- and biotechnology - aims to engineer materials that can undergo physical transformations when triggered by environmental stimuli or user-define inputs. Programmable materials research is attracting growing interest because it could enable paradigm shifts in multiple industries) p. 10 (Current approaches to constructing programmable materials fall into two categories: 1) coordinating multiple intelligent agents to carry out information processing; 2) embedding programmability directly into the material via advanced materials synthesis)
found: Wikipedia, July 8, 2020:Programmable matter (Programmable matter is matter which has the ability to change its physical properties (shape, density, moduli, conductivity, optical properties, etc.) in a programmable fashion, based upon user input or autonomous sensing; any bulk substance which can be programmed to change its physical properties)
found: Programmable materials, via MIT Self-Assembly Lab website, July 8, 2020(Programmable Materials consist of material compositions that are designed to become highly dynamic in form and function, yet they are as cost-effective as traditional materials, easily fabricated and capable of flat-pack shipping and self-assembly. These new materials include: self-transforming carbon fiber, printed wood grain, custom textile composites and other rubbers/plastics, which offer unprecedented capabilities including programmable actuation, sensing and self-transformation, from a simple material)
found: Eng, K.F. A peek into the brave new world of programmable materials, 2017, via Ideas.TED.com website, viewed July 8, 2020(programmable materials, or materials that can change shape according to instructions that are essentially programmed into them; smart materials--materials that respond and adapt to environments)
found: Self-assembly & programmable materials, via PCA-Stream website, July 8, 2020(If you look at what's happening in synthetic biology, DNA nanotechnology, material science, robotics, through to manufacturing, etc., there's a kind of boom in the ability to program physical materials, find computations, and utilize that on a different scale, outside software; if you can program matter across scales and across domains, you can have a change in shape, in performance, transformation, etc.; Normally, materials come in strands, sheets, cast objects, fibers, etc. The idea behind programmable materials is that you should be able to program these fundamental materials to change shape or behavior, to transform in some way so that we have more adaptive, responsive products, so that they can reconfigure themselves, among other things)
notfound: 2020 IEEE thesaurus, via WWW, July 8, 2020
