Responsive materials architected in space and time

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J Fan, L Zhang, S Wei, Z Zhang, SK Choi, B Song… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The concept of metamaterials originates from the proposal of left-hand materials with
negative refractive index, followed by which, varieties of metamaterials with kinds of fantastic …

Cadmium‐Free Kesterite Thin‐Film Solar Cells with High Efficiency Approaching 12%

N Ahmad, Y Zhao, F Ye, J Zhao, S Chen… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cadmium sulfide (CdS) buffer layer is commonly used in Kesterite Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4
(CZTSSe) thin film solar cells. However, the toxicity of Cadmium (Cd) and perilous waste …

Inverse design of mechanical metamaterials with target nonlinear response via a neural accelerated evolution strategy

B Deng, A Zareei, X Ding, JC Weaver… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Materials with target nonlinear mechanical response can support the design of innovative
soft robots, wearable devices, footwear, and energy‐absorbing systems, yet it is challenging …

3D metamaterials

M Kadic, GW Milton, M van Hecke… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Metamaterials are rationally designed composites aiming at effective material parameters
that go beyond those of the ingredient materials. For example, negative metamaterial …

Vibration control based metamaterials and origami structures: A state-of-the-art review

JC Ji, Q Luo, K Ye - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2021 - Elsevier
Vibration and sound control is critical to many practical engineering systems in order to
minimise the detrimental effects caused by unavoidable vibrations and noises …

Mechanical metamaterials and their engineering applications

JU Surjadi, L Gao, H Du, X Li, X **ong… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the past decade, mechanical metamaterials have garnered increasing attention owing to
its novel design principles which combine the concept of hierarchical architecture with …