Dual-laser writes/ bends, creating adaptive shape-locking magnetic composites in situ, allowing on-demand reprogramming/ adaptive functionality

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102183

"writes new instructions into material using high-intensity laser, precisely heating tiny spot above 85°C, melting internal magnetic microcapsules, then, external magnetic field orients freed magnetic particles encoding specific instruction before spot rapidly cools locking new programming in place... to bend, 2nd low-intensity laser warms larger area above 60°C, softening material's shape-memory polymer skeleton, making pliable... 2nd magnetic field then acts on written instructions, guiding material to fold, twist, bend"