Honeycombs are ultra-light materials with outstanding mechanical properties, which mainly
originate from their unit cell configurations rather than the properties of matrix materials …

Inspired by sonic engineering, locally resonant metamaterials have attracted much attention
from researchers in civil engineering for their unique characteristics of stress wave …

Materials and structures with negative Poisson's ratio exhibit a counter-intuitive behaviour.
Under uniaxial compression (tension), these materials and structures contract (expand) …

Hydrogel-based devices are widely used as flexible electronics, biosensors, soft robots, and
intelligent human-machine interfaces. In these applications, high stretchability, low …

In the past decades, many mechanical metamaterials with uncommon static properties have
been reported. On the other hand, mechanical metamaterials possessing extraordinary …

High-precision 3D printing technology opens to almost endless opportunities to design
complex shapes present in tailored architected materials. The scope of this work is to review …

The advancement in electromagnetic metamaterials, which commenced three decades ago,
experienced a rapid transformation into acoustic and elastic systems in the forms of …

Over the last three decades but more particularly during the last 5 years, auxetic mechanical
metamaterials constructed from precisely architected polymer-based materials have …

Artificial designed metamaterials have attracted widespread attention because of its unique
lattice structure and special physical properties. In this work, a chiral auxetic metamaterial …

Emerging interest to synthesize active, engineered matter suggests a future where smart
material systems and structures operate autonomously around people, serving diverse roles …