Fun to build, tricky to crack—these beaded metamaterials keep you on your toes! (literally) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Beaded metamaterials - Nature Communications

Beading combines soft, compliant threads with discrete, rigid elements to make architected materials. Here, authors show how geometry, tension, and friction together enable programmable shape and tuna...

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