The combination of an auxetic structure featuring a negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) and
viscoelastic materials with superior dam** behavior and energy absorption introduces a …

In recent years, lattice kirigami metamaterials have attracted considerable attention due to
their unconventional and often intriguing mechanical properties. However, the absence of a …

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

Origami-inspired structures can manifest a range of interesting characteristics such as
reconfigurability and multi-stablity. Theoretically, the energy of rigid-foldable origami …

Auxetic structures have attracted further attention owing to their outstanding designability
and mechanical properties. Designing innovative cellular structures with improved …

Kirigami, the ancient technique of paper cutting, has been successfully applied to enhance
the stretchability and ductility of nanoscale graphene. However, existing experimentally …

Kirigami-inspired designs hold great potential for the development of functional materials
and devices, but predicting the morphological configuration of these structures under …

Metamaterials with strain-independent negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) and Young's modulus
are essential for the applications with extreme loading conditions. However, strain …

Three novel heterogenous re-entrant honeycombs with possible applicability in the
construction and automotive industries are designed with insight from geometric defects in …

The success in the flexible design of smart acoustic metamaterials is crucially contingent
upon the degree of control over the parameters that uniquely define the spectrum of band …