Material properties can be tailored through modification of their geometry or architecture.
With this concept, a lot of smart materials, metamaterials, and smart structures have been …

The emerging concept of mechanical meta-materials has received increasing attention
during the last few years partially due to the advances in additive manufacturing techniques …

With the scaling of lateral dimensions in advanced transistors, an increased gate
capacitance is desirable both to retain the control of the gate electrode over the channel and …

Poisson's ratio had long been considered to be an intrinsic material property, confined within
a narrow domain and governed solely by the geometry of interatomic bonds. Materials with …

A scalable mechanical metamaterial simultaneously displaying negative stiffness and
negative Poisson's ratio responses is presented. Interlocking hexagonal subunit assemblies …

It is well-known that conventional field effect transistors (FETs) require a change in the
channel potential of at least 60 mV at 300 K to effect a change in the current by a factor of 10 …

Instabilities in solids and structures are ubiquitous across all length and time scales, and
engineering design principles have commonly aimed at preventing instability. However …

When tensioned, ordinary materials expand along the direction of the applied force. Here,
we explore network concepts to design metamaterials exhibiting negative compressibility …

Atomically thin graphene exhibits fascinating mechanical properties, although its hardness
and transverse stiffness are inferior to those of diamond. So far, there has been no practical …

Making materials lightweight while attaining a desirable combination of mechanical, thermal,
and other physical properties is the “holy grail” of material science. Lattice materials …