Topological phenomena at defects in acoustic, photonic and solid-state lattices

ZK Lin, Q Wang, Y Liu, H Xue, B Zhang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
There are two prominent applications of the mathematical concept of topology to the physics
of materials: band topology, which classifies different topological insulators and semimetals …

Responsive materials architected in space and time

X Xia, CM Spadaccini, JR Greer - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Rationally designed architected materials have attained previously untapped territories in
materials property space. The properties and behaviours of architected materials need not …

[HTML][HTML] Programmable multi-physical mechanics of mechanical metamaterials

P Sinha, T Mukhopadhyay - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Mechanical metamaterials are engineered materials with unconventional mechanical
behavior that originates from artificially programmed microstructures along with intrinsic …

Flexible metamaterial electronics

S Jiang, X Liu, J Liu, D Ye, Y Duan, K Li… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last decade, extensive efforts have been made on utilizing advanced materials and
structures to improve the properties and functionalities of flexible electronics. While the …

Exceptional topology of non-Hermitian systems

EJ Bergholtz, JC Budich, FK Kunst - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
The current understanding of the role of topology in non-Hermitian (NH) systems and its far-
reaching physical consequences observable in a range of dissipative settings are reviewed …

A review of additive manufacturing of metamaterials and developing trends

J Fan, L Zhang, S Wei, Z Zhang, SK Choi, B Song… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The concept of metamaterials originates from the proposal of left-hand materials with
negative refractive index, followed by which, varieties of metamaterials with kinds of fantastic …

Topological metamaterials

X Ni, S Yves, A Krasnok, A Alu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The topological properties of an object, associated with an integer called the topological
invariant, are global features that cannot change continuously but only through abrupt …

Topological active matter

S Shankar, A Souslov, MJ Bowick, MC Marchetti… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
In active matter systems, individual constituents convert energy into non-conservative forces
or motion at the microscale, leading to morphological features and transport properties that …

Bulk–disclination correspondence in topological crystalline insulators

Y Liu, S Leung, FF Li, ZK Lin, X Tao, Y Poo, JH Jiang - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Most natural and artificial materials have crystalline structures from which abundant
topological phases emerge,,,,–. However, the bulk–edge correspondence—which has been …

Quantization of fractional corner charge in -symmetric higher-order topological crystalline insulators

WA Benalcazar, T Li, TL Hughes - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
In the presence of crystalline symmetries, certain topological insulators present a filling
anomaly: a mismatch between the number of electrons in an energy band and the number of …