Piezoelectric composites have emerged as a versatile platform with immense potential for
tailoring electro-mechanical properties to cater to a wide spectrum of applications. Central to …

Technologies of energy harvesting have been developed intensively since the beginning of
the twenty-first century, presenting themselves as alternatives to traditional energy sources …

The trade‐off between processability and functional responses presents significant
challenges for incorporating piezoelectric materials as potential 3D printable feedstock …

An electrically-tunable metamaterial is herein designed for the active control of damped
elastic waves. The periodic device is conceived including both elastic phases and a …

Advances in additive manufacturing have recently made possible the manufacturing of smart
materials with arbitrary microarchitectures, which leads to develo** lightweight smart …

An innovative special class of tunable periodic metamaterials is designed, suitable for
realizing high-performance acoustic filters. The metamaterial is made up of a phononic …

A novel class of Fibonacci-based high performance tunable hierarchical waveguides is here
proposed and special focus is devoted to the design of adaptive-passive control systems for …

The problem of material properties identification for modern active composites is closely
connected to the state of the art methods of design and manufacturing using composite and …

Piezoelectrically active cellular solids are reminiscent of passive structural cellular solids,
and therefore, depending on their inner cellular architecture, their cellular ligaments can …

3 piezocomposites are excellent candidate materials for sensor, actuator and transducer
applications owing to their remarkable dielectric properties, enhanced piezoelectric coupling …