Mechanically‐guided structural designs in stretchable inorganic electronics

Z Xue, H Song, JA Rogers, Y Zhang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decade, the area of stretchable inorganic electronics has evolved very rapidly,
in part because the results have opened up a series of unprecedented applications with …

Mechanics of unusual soft network materials with rotatable structural nodes

J Liu, D Yan, Y Zhang - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2021 - Elsevier
Soft network materials consisting of filamentary horseshoe microstructures represent a class
of architected materials of practical interest in flexible, bio-integrated electronics, because …

Building block design for composite metamaterial with an ultra-low thermal expansion and high-level specific modulus

H Yu, H Wang, X Guo, B Liang, X Wang, H Zhou… - Composite …, 2022 - Elsevier
The metamaterials with unique thermal expansions are attracting increasing interest in a
broad range of applications. Despite numerous metamaterials with unique thermal …

Nonlinear mechanics of horseshoe microstructure-based lattice design

Y Zhang, M Li, Z Qi, R Chen, Y Lin, S Cao, X Li… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Enhancing buffering capacity, flexibility, and energy absorption to withstand large
deformations in structure remains a challenge. Bio-inspired horseshoe lattice structures, with …

Theoretical and experimental research on anisotropic and nonlinear mechanics of periodic network materials

Y Yin, Z Zhao, Y Li - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2021 - Elsevier
Bio-inspired network materials composed of regularly aligned repeating filamentary
microstructures exhibit promising application prospects in tissue engineering and bio …

[HTML][HTML] Bio-inspired design and unusual mechanical properties of 3D horseshoe-shaped soft network metamaterials

J Zhou, J Chang, X Song, ZY Li, LY Zhang, H Li… - Composites Part B …, 2024 - Elsevier
Biological tissues possess high stretchability and nonlinear mechanical response owing to
their wavy and crimped microstructure. The metamaterials exhibit unusual physical and …

A phenomenological framework for modeling of nonlinear mechanical responses in soft network materials with arbitrarily curved microstructures

S Cao, J Wu, Y Lai, Z Shen, J Liu, R Bo, J Chang… - Extreme Mechanics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soft network materials (SNMs), consisting of rationally designed filamentary microstructures
distributed periodically in lattice patterns, offer high air permeability, excellent defect …

The non-affine fiber network solver: A multiscale fiber network material model for finite-element analysis

RR Mahutga, VH Barocas, PW Alford - Journal of the Mechanical Behavior …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multiscale mechanical models in biomaterials research have largely relied on simplifying the
microstructure in order to make large-scale simulations tractable. The microscale …

Metamaterials with remarkable thermal–mechanical stability and high specific modulus: Mechanical designs, theoretical predictions and experimental demonstrations

H Yu, H Wang, B Liang, X Guo - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
In the fields of aerospace, flexible electronics, intelligent manufacturing, and MEMS, the
mechanical metamaterials with remarkable zero thermal expansion of coefficient (CTE) are …

[PDF][PDF] On the design and mechanical properties of a novel tubular auxetic anti-tri-missing rib structure

TB Mustakim, Z Yan, C Zhang, Y Zhu… - International Journal of …, 2024 - researchgate.net
In a previous work, the authors proposed a novel planar isotropic anti-tri-missing rib
structure exhibiting excellent negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) performance within extremely …