Guided waves, elastic waves propagating through bounded structures, play a pivotal role in
various applications, including ultrasonic non-destructive testing and structural health …

In the field of flexible metamaterial design, harnessing zero modes plays a key part in
enabling reconfigurable elastic properties of the metamaterial with unconventional …

Solids built out of active components have exhibited odd elastic stiffness tensors whose
active moduli appear in the antisymmetric part and which give rise to non-Hermitian static …

Mechanical cloaks are materials engineered to manipulate the elastic response around
objects to make them indistinguishable from their homogeneous surroundings. Typically …

Artificially engineered metamaterials/metasurfaces provide an extraordinary strategy for
tailoring the electromagnetic properties of devices, which may break conventional limits in …

In recent years, researchers have increasingly directed their attention towards modulating
light fields through the unique properties of two-dimensional materials and the free …

Multifunctional metamaterials (MFMs) capable of energy harvesting and vibration control are
particularly attractive for smart structures, wearable/biointegrated electronics, and intelligent …

Dispersion relations govern wave behaviors, and tailoring them is a grand challenge in
wave manipulation. We demonstrate the inverse design of phononic dispersion using …

In this work, a concept of constructing inertant seismic metamaterials for Rayleigh wave
attenuation using inerter-based vibration absorbers (IDVAs) is proposed. The dynamic …

Spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) endow light with intriguing properties and applications such as
photonic spin-Hall effects and spin-dependent vortex generations. However, it is …