Mechanical metamaterials enable the creation of structural materials with unprecedented
mechanical properties. However, thus far, research on mechanical metamaterials has …

Mechanical metamaterials are engineered materials with unconventional mechanical
behavior that originates from artificially programmed microstructures along with intrinsic …

Mechanical metamaterials and phononic crystals enable localizing, focusing, and guiding of
elastic or acoustic waves in various ways. Here, we describe the physical mechanisms …

This paper proposes the design of an active nonlinear metamaterial for broadband and
tunable low-frequency wave attenuation governed by a lever-based nonlinear amplification …

This paper develops a novel type of two-dimensional (2D) locally resonant (LR)
metamaterials with quasi-zero-stiffness (QZS) property both in the horizontal and vertical …

In the past decades, many mechanical metamaterials with uncommon static properties have
been reported. On the other hand, mechanical metamaterials possessing extraordinary …

Metamaterials and phononic crystals (PCs) with artificially designed periodic microstructures
have attracted increasing research interests due to their unique properties that cannot be …

Nanoscale spacecrafts have shed light on an audacious but promising vision for interstellar
travel to neighboring planets beyond the solar system. The nanocrafts can be accelerated to …

This work proposes a graded metamaterial-based energy harvester integrating the
piezoelectric energy harvesting function targeting low-frequency ambient vibrations (< 100 …

Metamaterials are artificially engineered structures that exhibit extraordinary properties
beyond the constituent materials, making them attractive for various applications in optics …