The MIT automated assembly laboratory has recently invented a new type of material that will increase the gap between the materials as the temperature rises, and vice versa. This new material is structurally enlarged or reduced in proportion, much like a toy that can be deformed.
Imagine that there is only one piece of clothing in your closet. This incredible minimalism is now technically achievable.
According to the media, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Self-Assembly Lab has recently invented a new type of material. When the temperature rises, the gap between the materials will become larger. On the contrary, it will shrink and become smaller. This material, which can intelligently adjust from temperature to my temperature, is named "Active Auxetic".
Active Auxetic can have different shapes and materials. The lab plans to apply this concept of automated assembly to different materials, such as wood, leather and carbon fiber, and even invent new fabric materials. By altering the original structure of wood or leather and remodeling them in a specific way, they are able to respond to external stimuli (such as temperature, humidity, light or stress).
Therefore, Active Auxetic has many possible uses, such as making clothes. When it's cold, the clothes will automatically thicken to warm you up. When it's summer, the fabric will open like a pore on the skin, allowing it to dissipate heat. When the temperature difference between day and night is large, wearing such a dress will save a lot of trouble, eliminating the need to add or remove clothes. However, since the finished products made of this new material have not yet been seen, it is impossible to know the actual effect.
This new material is structurally enlarged or shrunk, much like a toy that can be deformed, the Hoberman Sphere. If you have played this kind of toy when you were young, you may have a more intuitive understanding of Active Auxetic's "thermal expansion and contraction".
But unlike the Hobman sphere, Active Auxetic can be "automatically assembled." The so-called automatic assembly means that the material does not depend on any mechanical or human power, but is automatically adjusted according to external stimulus variables (such as temperature), and just like the programmed program, facing the same change every time. The path and results of the adjustment are fixed.
This is not the first time that the MIT Automated Assembly Lab has developed automated assembly materials.
Research and development by the founder of the lab, Skylar Tibbits, and his team often cross-border art, design and science. In 2015, they collaborated with designers Christophe Guberan and Carlo Clopath to develop a shoe that automatically deforms as temperature and humidity change. In 2014, the Tibbits team developed a smart fabric that automatically folds when in contact with water and can be used in IKEA's assembled furniture.
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The invention of Active Auxetic also provides unlimited application potential for the creation of fashion designers and artists. These materials, which can be automatically assembled, deformed, folded, and adapted, may allow our modern clothing to enter a more intelligent era.
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