The quest for realizing and manipulating ever smaller man-made movable structures and
dynamical machines has spurred tremendous endeavors, led to important discoveries, and …

Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

Guiding waves through a stable physical channel is essential for reliable information
transport. However, energy transport in high-frequency mechanical systems, such as in …

Micro and nanoelectromechanical systems M/NEMS have been extensively investigated
and exploited in the past few decades for various applications and for probing fundamental …

Quality factor (Q) is an important property of micro-and nano-electromechanical (MEM/NEM)
resonators that underlie timing references, frequency sources, atomic force microscopes …

Taking advantage of undesirable ambient vibration resources, vibration-based energy
harvesters (VEHs) aim to power smart electronic devices by converting kinetic energy into …

Abstract In 2022, The MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and
Functionalization in Zhejiang University had achieved several important results. First, a …

Micro-and nanoelectromechanical systems have numerous applications in sensing and
signal transduction. Many properties benefit from reducing the system size to the nanoscale …

The dynamics of suspended two-dimensional (2D) materials has received increasing
attention during the last decade, yielding new techniques to study and interpret the physics …

Owing to their atomic-scale thickness, the resonances of two-dimensional (2D) material
membranes show signatures of nonlinearities at forces of only a few picoNewtons. Although …