Versatile building blocks make structures with surprising mechanical properties

[JohnnyYesterday]

It would be interesting to do some additional research on metamaterials and attempt to extrapolate future advances. I'll look over the submission guidelines for articles. What would you like to see?

Those voxels were huge, assembled by hand. Really useful commercial applications probably won't start being seen until they're manufacturing and assembling these at a microscopic level.

Here’s some other mechanical metamaterials:

https://news.rice.edu/2019/11/13/theoret...-polymers/

https://c6xty.com/


Why do you think that? Material forms can be “coarse grained” and still be useful. Look at honeycombed panels, foamed materials (metals, polymers etc.), space frames, and the honeycomb inside TerrainArmor tires. 

LEGO-sized voxels could be assembled into materials by delta robots.