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 …

Two-dimensional lattice structures with specific geometric features have been reported to
have a negative Poisson's ratio, termed as auxetic metamaterials, that is, stretching-induced …

Auxetic mechanical metamaterials are artificially architected materials that possess negative
Poisson's ratio, demonstrating transversal contracting deformation under external vertical …

Metamaterials have promising applications in many fields such as those in medical,
electronic and civil engineering. However, the existing unit cell designs for metamaterials …

Lattice-based mechanical metamaterials are known to exhibit quite a unique mechanical
behavior owing to their rational internal architecture. This includes unusual properties such …

In this paper, the mechanical behavior of bio-inspired nacre-like staggered composites is
studied. The bio-inspired materials, combining stiff and soft constituents, exhibit superior …

In this work, the wave propagation properties of lightened bioinspired composite materials
are investigated. A new lightened nacre-like microstructure is proposed demonstrating that …

Large deformation effects give the opportunity for tuning and manipulating the dynamic
properties of periodic microstructured materials, including those related to vibration control …

In this work, we study the failure behavior of 3D-printed polymer composites undergoing
large deformations. Experimental results are compared to numerical simulations using the …