Programmable Materials

The ability to synthesize materials by design presents one of the greatest scientific challenges. Programmable materials can be designed to be highly dynamic either in form or function. Advances made toward the fabrication of programmable materials can lead to new, unexpected discoveries and novel functionalities in emerging fields, such as enhanced plasmonics, selective catalysis, efficient energy harvesting, precision medicine, and autonomous actuators. Vast research interest have been raised in material design for programmable materials to pursue these cutting-edge features, such as programmable molecules and nanomaterials. These can be self-assembled and processing with dynamic forms under various environments and emerging applications such as flexible electronics, showing high adaptability coupled with multidimensional transformations. The thriving research into programmable materia…