In the past decade, mechanical metamaterials have garnered increasing attention owing to
its novel design principles which combine the concept of hierarchical architecture with …

Multistable mechanical metamaterials are a type of mechanical metamaterials with special
features, such as reusability, energy storage and absorption capabilities, rapid deformation …

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) comprise a novel class of scientifically and technologically
interesting materials. Among these, equatomic CrMnFeCoNi with the face-centered cubic …

Graphene is a single-atomic-layer material with excellent mechanical properties and has the
potential to enhance the strength of composites. Its two-dimensional geometry, high intrinsic …

Abstract High-entropy alloys (HEAs), although often presumed to be random solid solutions,
have recently been shown to display nanometer-scale variations in the arrangements of …

A standard experimental method for determining the intrinsic material length scale of
modified couple stress theory is proposed based on a non-contact laser Doppler vibration …

The size-dependent elasticity of a series of nickel cantilever microbeams was investigated
experimentally for the first time. The experimental results revealed that the dimensionless …

In the past twenty years, new experimental approaches, improved models and progress in
simulation techniques have brought new insights into longstanding issues concerning …

dimensional solid Cu octet meso-lattices with characteristic features on the micron-scale
were fabricated and mechanically tested under uniaxial compression. These architected …

Ultrahigh surface-to-volume ratio in nanoscale materials, could dramatically facilitate mass
transport, leading to surface-mediated diffusion similar to Coble-type creep in polycrystalline …