SES 2024 Call for abstract: MS 10.11 Morphing Matters: Inspiration, Mechanics, Computation, Design, Fabrication, and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit abstracts and attend the minisymposium titled "10.11 Morphing Matters: Inspiration, Mechanics, Computation, Design, Fabrication, and Applications" in the 2024 SES Annual Techinical Meeting, August 20-23, 2024, Hangzhou, China.

https://www.2024ses.com/

Abstract submissions are due April 1, 2024.

10.11 Morphing Matters: Inspiration, Mechanics, Computation, Design, Fabrication, and Applications

Morphing matter includes biological and engineering materials and structures with dynamic and tunable properties such as shape, color, stiffness, texture, and density. Examples include pinecones that open when dried and close when wet, an octopus that camouflages by changing body shapes, textures, and colors, food that changes shapes during cooking, and smart windows that dynamically tune color and surface roughness. When computationally designed and fabricated with well-defined objectives, they can have great potential in addressing a range of societal challenges in sustainability, accessibility, inclusive design, and embodied haptics for augmented humans through flexible electronics, smart structures, and soft robotics. In particular, morphing matter that dynamically changes its shape and function in response to natural and ambient energy sources, such as light, heat, or humidity, holds the potential to revolutionize the field of biodegradable and electricity-free materials and devices, allowing for the creation of adaptive, responsive, and intelligent machines and robots. The design and fabrication of morphing matter are highly crossdisciplinary and often involve multiphase materials as well as multiphysics interaction, in which mechanics plays a crucial role. To foster collaboration and exploration in this dynamic field, we are excited to announce the topic "Morphing matters: inspiration, mechanics, computation, design, fabrication, and applications" in SES 2024. This topic will serve as a platform for experts, active researchers, engineers, experts, and newcomers in the field to present their latest innovations, exchange ideas, and discuss future directions.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

● Mechanical principles of morphing matters: understanding the mechanical principles among force, geometry, and energy in multifunctional morphing matter

● Morphogenesis of active matter: understanding shape/pattern formation in living matter to inspire biomimetic design

● Kirigami and origami systems

● Analytical and computational modeling and design approaches, including geometrical, mechanistic, and AI-enabled methods

● Shape-morphing mechanical metamaterials: exploring the ability of extraordinary deformations driven by the design of architected structures

● Shape-morphing metamaterials with prescribed and actively tunable mechanical, acoustic, and other properties

● Easy-to-actuate multi-stable structures and materials

● Advancements in fabrication, actuation, and experiment techniques and platforms

● Applications of morphing matter in flexible electronics, soft robotics, deployable structures, sustainability, healthcare, and other related fields

Organizers: (sorted alphabetically):

● Charles Dorn, ETH Zurich

● Bo Li, Tsinghua University

● Mingchao Liu, University of Birmingham

● Yang Li, Wuhan University

● Yong Ni, University of Science and Technology of China

● Shan Tang, Dalian University of Technology

● Baoxing Xu, University of Virginia

● Fan Xu, Fudan University

● Lining Yao, University of California, Berkeley

● Teng Zhang, Syracuse University

● Xiang Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

● Yunlan Zhang, University of Texas at Austin

● Yihui Zhang, Tsinghua University