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The paper by the BME researchers published on 11 April 2023 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) may offer a breakthrough in the development of intelligent materials. The leading author of the paper, Krisztina Regős is a first year doctoral student of the BME Department of Morphology and Geometrical Modelling. In addition to researchers from the University of Basel and the University of Bern, Gábor Domokos, leader of the ELKH-BME Research Group of Morphodynamics of Solids, research professor of the BME Department of Morphology and Geometrical Modelling and one of the inventors of the Gömböc and Professor Konstantin S. Novoselov, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 for his research on graphene, have also contributed to the publication.

The paper of the BME researchers has been reviewed in Quanta Magazine and published on 21 June 2023, appearing as the leader on the front page of the magazine for 24 hours.