Metamaterials, with unconventional properties realized through various ingenious designs
of micro-architectures, have become a recent research hotspot in the fields of …

Phononic materials are periodically arranged building blocks in the form of material
properties, geometries, and/or boundary conditions. This synthetic architecture makes …

In the field of flexible metamaterial design, harnessing zero modes plays a key part in
enabling reconfigurable elastic properties of the metamaterial with unconventional …

Soft structures with rationally designed architectures capable of large, nonlinear deformation
present opportunities for unprecedented, highly tunable devices and machines. However …

Mechanical instabilities, especially in the form of bistable and multistable mechanisms, have
recently garnered a lot of interest as a mode of improving the capabilities and increasing the …

Tensegrity structures provide both structural integrity and flexibility through the combination
of stiff struts and a network of flexible tendons. These structures exhibit useful properties …

The principles underlying the art of origami paper folding can be applied to design
sophisticated metamaterials with unique mechanical properties. By exploiting the flat crease …

Flexible mechanical metamaterials are compliant structures engineered to achieve unique
properties via the large deformation of their components. While their static character has …

Phononic crystals (PnCs) and acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) are artificially architected
materials endowed with the capabilities of wave manipulation. This review specifically …

The peculiar nonlinear mechanical behaviour of tensegrity structures and their engineering
applications have attracted considerable interest in the last two decades. However, the …