The design, manufacture and application of multistable mechanical metamaterials-a state-of-the-art review

R Xu, C Chen, J Sun, Y He, X Li, MH Lu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Multistable mechanical metamaterials are a type of mechanical metamaterials with special
features, such as reusability, energy storage and absorption capabilities, rapid deformation …

Rational designs of mechanical metamaterials: Formulations, architectures, tessellations and prospects

J Gao, X Cao, M **ao, Z Yang, X Zhou, Y Li… - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Mechanical Metamaterials (MMs) are artificially designed structures with
extraordinary properties that are dependent on micro architectures and spatial tessellations …

Inverse design of shell-based mechanical metamaterial with customized loading curves based on machine learning and genetic algorithm

Y Wang, Q Zeng, J Wang, Y Li, D Fang - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
Triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMSs) have attracted great attention due to their distinct
advantages such as high strength and light weight compared to traditional lattice structures …

Damage-programmable design of metamaterials achieving crack-resisting mechanisms seen in nature

Z Gao, X Zhang, Y Wu, MS Pham, Y Lu, C **a… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The fracture behaviour of artificial metamaterials often leads to catastrophic failures with
limited resistance to crack propagation. In contrast, natural materials such as bones and …

Programmable mechanical devices through magnetically tunable bistable elements

A Pal, M Sitti - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Mechanical instabilities, especially in the form of bistable and multistable mechanisms, have
recently garnered a lot of interest as a mode of improving the capabilities and increasing the …

Multiscale architected porous materials for renewable energy conversion and storage

SS Hoseini, A Seyedkanani, G Najafi, AP Sasmito… - Energy Storage …, 2023 - Elsevier
Before replacing fossil fuels, renewable energy options should overcome conversion and
storage challenges. Therefore, it is crucial to develop advanced materials that may enhance …

[HTML][HTML] 4D printing bio-inspired chiral metamaterials for flexible sensors

X **n, Z Wang, C Zeng, C Lin, L Liu, Y Liu… - Composites Part B …, 2024 - Elsevier
Chiral metamaterials were a typical metamaterial configuration, which had broad application
prospects in vibration isolation, energy absorption and other fields. Although 4D-printed …

A quasi-zero-stiffness elastic metamaterial for energy absorption and shock attenuation

S Guo, R Gao, X Tian, S Liu - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
A multi-step quasi-zero-stiffness metamaterial (MS-QZSM) is proposed, which exhibits
potential applications in various engineering scenarios, such as multi-vibration mitigation …

4D pixel mechanical metamaterials with programmable and reconfigurable properties

X **n, L Liu, Y Liu, J Leng - Advanced Functional Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The tension‐torsion coupling metamaterial (TTCM) exhibits torsional deformation while
stretching, with the degree of freedom exceeding the Cauchy elasticity. However, the TTCM …

[HTML][HTML] Programmable and multistable metamaterials made of precisely tailored bistable cells

K Liang, Y Wang, Y Luo, A Takezawa, X Zhang… - Materials & Design, 2023 - Elsevier
This study proposes a systematic inverse design framework for constructing multistable
mechanical metamaterials with programmable gradients. Herein, we designed the tailored …