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

Nanoscale spacecrafts have shed light on an audacious but promising vision for interstellar
travel to neighboring planets beyond the solar system. The nanocrafts can be accelerated to …

Materials with target load plateaus offer the potential for developing innovative vibration
suppression and isolation systems for applications such as satellite platforms, submarines …

Auxetic metamaterials tend to be fabricated using additive manufacturing and laser cutting
due to their special porous microstructures. Although the auxetic metamaterials have many …

In recent years, lattice kirigami metamaterials have attracted considerable attention due to
their unconventional and often intriguing mechanical properties. However, the absence of a …

The emerging mechanical functional metamaterials reported with promising
mechanoelectrical characteristics bring increasing attention to structurally functional …

Metamaterials constructed from the tessellation of units have extraordinary physical
properties and material functions. Most mechanical metamaterials are based on the large …

Mechanical metamaterials are artificial structures with structure-dependent properties. They
often harness zero-energy deformation modes, eg, a single shape change that limits their …

Origami-inspired metamaterials and structures exhibit extraordinary properties, including
programmable Poisson's ratio and tunable stiffness. Although some research has achieved …

In this paper, three reconfigurable Mirror-Miura origami (MMO) patterns are designed by the
Miura origami units. The kinematics of three reconfigurable Mirror-Miura origami patterns are …