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Engineers at the University of Glasgow and the University of Sydney have made 3D printed metamaterials that can show where they are being damaged and follow that damage as it spreads, in real time. The work adapts electrical impedance tomography (EIT), a hospital imaging technique, to printed lattice structures containing carbon nanotubes. The team says it is the first reported use of in situ EIT to monitor damage in 3D printed architected metamaterials. The study, “Full-Field Damage Monitoring in Architected Lattices Using In situ Electrical Impedance Tomography,” was published on 28 September 2026 as an Ear