Mechanical metamaterials enable the creation of structural materials with unprecedented
mechanical properties. However, thus far, research on mechanical metamaterials has …

Origami traces its origins to an ancient art form transforming flat thin surfaces into various
complex, fabulous 3D objects. Nowadays, such transformation transcends art by offering a …

Vibration and sound control is critical to many practical engineering systems in order to
minimise the detrimental effects caused by unavoidable vibrations and noises …

In the past decade, mechanical metamaterials have garnered increasing attention owing to
its novel design principles which combine the concept of hierarchical architecture with …

Once merely ancient arts, origami (ie, paper folding) and kirigami (ie, paper cutting) have in
recent years also become popular for building mechanical metamaterials and now provide …

Mechanical metamaterials exhibit properties and functionalities that cannot be realized in
conventional materials. Originally, the field focused on achieving unusual (zero or negative) …

Mechanical metamaterials are man-made structures with counterintuitive mechanical
properties that originate in the geometry of their unit cell instead of the properties of each …

Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, is not only an inspiring technique to
create sophisticated shapes, but also a surprisingly powerful method to induce nonlinear …

Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) structures capable of reversible transformations in their
geometrical layouts have important applications across a broad range of areas. Most …

Thin sheets have long been known to experience an increase in stiffness when they are
bent, buckled, or assembled into smaller interlocking structures. We introduce a unique …