AI-Designed Metamaterials Unlock Extreme Properties for Cutting-Edge Applications
• Researchers are pioneering metamaterials, whose properties come from geometry rather than molecular composition, enabled by AI and 3D printing.
• Metamaterials can exhibit extreme, unnatural properties, like solids that act like fluids, with implications across fields.
• AI models can solve inverse problems to design metamaterials with desired properties and enhanced durability.
• The models account for 3D printer resolution limits to create designs that can actually be manufactured.
• Possible applications include implants, surgical tools, soft robots, adaptive mirrors, and exoskeletons, but the full potential of metamaterials is yet to be realized.