Multistable mechanical metamaterials are a type of mechanical metamaterials with special
features, such as reusability, energy storage and absorption capabilities, rapid deformation …

Multistability plays an important role in advanced engineering applications such as
metastructures, deployable structures, and reconfigurable robotics. However, most existing …

The paper proposes a novel polygonal negative stiffness (NS) metamaterial composed of
folded beams and stiffening walls, which exhibits excellent performance in attenuating …

Compared with traditional energy dissipation structures, negative stiffness metamaterials
can repeatedly dissipate energy without incurring irreversible plastic deformation. The …

This study investigated negative stiffness (NS) mechanical metamaterials, which are
potential in the energy absorption field. However, critical drawback of low specific energy …

Reusability and multi-functionality are challenges in the design of energy-absorbing
structures, which may realize through special metamaterials. Multistable mechanical …

Multi-stable mechanical metamaterials with unprecedented mechanical/physical properties
have attracted great interests due to their functional applications for advanced materials and …

Snap‐through instability, a rapid transition between equilibrium states, has emerged as a
crucial mechanism for designing mechanical metamaterials with novel functionalities …

Multi‐stable structures and metamaterials with more than two stable states are widely
applied in diversified engineering applications. Non‐rigid foldable origami patterns have …

Metamaterials are artificial structures that have been engineered to exhibit properties that do
not occur naturally in conventional materials. They were firstly made up of periodic unit cells …