This broad review summarizes recent advances and “hot” research topics in nanophononics
and elastic, acoustic, and mechanical metamaterials based on results presented by the …

Soft network materials represent a class of emerging cellular materials that have well-
organized micro-architectures inspired by network microstructures found in many soft …

After a decade of periodic truss-, plate-, and shell-based architectures having dominated the
design of metamaterials, we introduce the non-periodic class of spinodoid topologies …

Magnetic actuation has emerged as a powerful and versatile mechanism for diverse
applications, ranging from soft robotics, biomedical devices to functional metamaterials. This …

In this paper, we investigate the post-buckling development of instability-induced patterns in
soft particulate composites. Upon reaching the critical strain level, the composite …

In this work, we study the macroscopic and microscopic instabilities in 2D incompressible
nacre-like composite materials induced by uniaxial loadings. The interchange between …

Multiscale techniques have been widely shown to potentially overcome the limitation of
homogenization schemes in representing the microscopic failure mechanisms in …

We investigate the microscopic and macroscopic instabilities developing in magnetoactive
elastomer (MAE) composites undergoing large deformations in the presence of an external …

Providing materials with an inner architecture that improves their mechanical and physical
properties is a potent approach to materials design. Herein, the possibilities of such …

Large deformations of soft materials can give rise to the development of various elastic
instabilities. The phenomenon is associated with a sudden and dramatic change in structure …