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IRG 2: Activated Architectured Materials | Chicago Materials Research Center | The University of Chicago

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IRG 2: ACTIVATED ARCHITECTURED MATERIALS We design and build shape-morphing hybrid materials with programmable and spatiotemporally self-regulating transport properties. The ability to create active materials with distributed microscopic elements that convert energy into local mechanical work would fundamentally alter existing approaches to materials design. Biology offers many examples of these materials, where they impart autonomy to living systems. Inspired by nature, we will design and build hybrid inorganic-biological materials that sense and interact with the environment to produce an “a

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