Shubham Agarwal

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The most appropriate term to which today’s era can be related to is the technology. Nowadays, the advancement in the technologies is enabling the production of architected materials with unprecedented properties. Most of such materials are characterized by a fixed geometry, but in the design of some materials it is possible to incorporate internal mechanisms capable of reconfiguring their spatial architecture, and in this way to enable tunable functionality. The underlying principles are scale-independent which can be applied to the design of the next generation of reconfigurable structures and materials, ranging from meter-scale transformable architectures to nanometre-scale tunable photonic systems.