Active mechanical metamaterials (AMMs)(or smart mechanical metamaterials) that combine
the configurations of mechanical metamaterials and the active control of stimuli‐responsive …

Negative thermal expansion (NTE) of materials is an intriguing phenomenon challenging the
concept of traditional lattice dynamics and of importance for a variety of applications …

Most metamaterials with negative Poisson's ratio and/or negative thermal expansion
coefficient possess relatively low stiffness. In this work, a novel hybrid-honeycomb structure …

Materials with engineered thermal expansion, capable of achieving targeted area/volume
changes in response to variations in temperature, are important for a number of aerospace …

Advances in the multi-material additive manufacturing promote a new opportunity for
developing metamaterials integrating complex functionalities, especially the metamaterial …

Soft adaptable materials that change their shapes, volumes, and properties in response to
changes under ambient conditions have important applications in tissue engineering, soft …

This work proposes a novel metamaterial incorporating the auxeticity and thermal shrinkage
by originally introducing a bi-material double-square into the star-shaped configuration. The …

The unexpected thermal distortions and failures in engineering raise the big concern about
thermal expansion controlling. Thus, design of tailorable coefficient of thermal expansion …

Metamaterials, incorporating specific micro-architectures, could be purposely customized to
export the programmability in both thermal expansional and mechanical performances …

Current reported cellular metastructures can either achieve only tailorable thermal
expansion or obtain only tunable Poisson's ratio. By contrast, here, we develop a kind of …