Mechanical metamaterials associated with stiffness, rigidity and compressibility: A brief review

X Yu, J Zhou, H Liang, Z Jiang, L Wu - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Mechanical metamaterials are man-made structures with counterintuitive mechanical
properties that originate in the geometry of their unit cell instead of the properties of each …

Bioinspired engineering of honeycomb structure–Using nature to inspire human innovation

Q Zhang, X Yang, P Li, G Huang, S Feng… - Progress in Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
Honeycomb structures, inspired from bee honeycombs, had found widespread applications
in various fields, including architecture, transportation, mechanical engineering, chemical …

Artificial intelligence-enabled smart mechanical metamaterials: advent and future trends

P Jiao, AH Alavi - International Materials Reviews, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Mechanical metamaterials have opened an exciting venue for control and manipulation of
architected structures in recent years. Research in the area of mechanical metamaterials …

Negative Poisson's ratio behavior induced by an elastic instability

K Bertoldi, PM Reis, S Willshaw, T Mullin - Advanced materials, 2010 - dash.harvard.edu
Negative Poisson's ratio behavior has been uncovered in cellular solids that comprise a
solid matrix with a square array of circular voids. The simplicity of the fabrication implies …

Three-dimensional nanonetworks for giant stretchability in dielectrics and conductors

J Park, S Wang, M Li, C Ahn, JK Hyun, DS Kim… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
The realization of levels of stretchability that extend beyond intrinsic limits of bulk materials is
of great importance to stretchable electronics. Here we report large-area, three-dimensional …

Superior compressive properties of 3D printed plate lattice mechanical metamaterials

J Hu, ATL Tan, H Chen, X Hu - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, the demand for high-performance materials with lightweight and
enhanced mechanical properties has gradually increased. The cellular structure …

25th anniversary article: ordered polymer structures for the engineering of photons and phonons

JH Lee, CY Koh, JP Singer, SJ Jeon… - Advanced …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The engineering of optical and acoustic material functionalities via construction of ordered
local and global architectures on various length scales commensurate with and well below …

Pattern transformation of heat-shrinkable polymer by three-dimensional (3D) printing technique

Q Zhang, D Yan, K Zhang, G Hu - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
A significant challenge in conventional heat-shrinkable polymers is to produce controllable
microstructures. Here we report that the polymer material fabricated by three-dimensional …

Harnessing instabilities for design of soft reconfigurable auxetic/chiral materials

J Shim, S Shan, A Košmrlj, SH Kang, ER Chen… - Soft Matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Most materials have a unique form optimized for a specific property and function. However,
the ability to reconfigure material structures depending on stimuli opens exciting …

Nanostructures and functional materials fabricated by interferometric lithography

D Xia, Z Ku, SC Lee, SRJ Brueck - Advanced materials, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Interferometric lithography (IL) is a powerful technique for the definition of large‐area,
nanometer‐scale, periodically patterned structures. Patterns are recorded in a light …