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

Porous/multi-cell structures are widely used in practical engineering due to their excellent
energy absorption capacity and lightweight. In recent decades, as an important member of …

Honeycomb structures, inspired from bee honeycombs, had found widespread applications
in various fields, including architecture, transportation, mechanical engineering, chemical …

Dynamic compressive behaviour of cellular materials is crucial to their applications in
energy absorption, ballistic mitigation and blast/impact protection. The recent research …

Equivalent sandwich panels composed of auxetic and conventional honeycomb cores and
metal facets are analysed and compared for their resistance performances against impulsive …

Honeycombs with re-entrant (RE) unit cells were found to have negative Poisson's ratios
(NPRs) and enhanced energy absorption capabilities than regular hexagon honeycombs …

Auxetic metamaterials have attracted increasing attention due to their exceptional
mechanical properties. However, the critical parameters of mechanical response and …

A series of novel bionic honeycombs (bio-honeycombs) are proposed by incorporating the
microstructure of the beetle elytra intersection unit into the regular hexagonal honeycomb …

Recently, auxetic honeycombs have attracted considerable attention for their excellent
mechanical properties, especially the potential applications for energy absorption. In this …

Hierarchical materials born of variable natural cellular and intricate architecture are
demonstrated to have the potential to achieve outstanding mechanical properties, thus make …