Recent progress in reconfigurable and intelligent metasurfaces: A comprehensive review of tuning mechanisms, hardware designs, and applications

Y Saifullah, Y He, A Boag, GM Yang, F Xu - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intelligent metasurfaces have gained significant importance in recent years due to their
ability to dynamically manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves. Their multifunctional …

Deployable mechanical metamaterials with multistep programmable transformation

Z Meng, M Liu, H Yan, GM Genin, CQ Chen - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Transformations in shape are critical to actuation in engineered metamaterials. Existing
engineering metamaterials are typically limited to a small number of shape transformations …

Mechanical metamaterial systems as transformation mechanisms

SE Rodríguez, EP Calius, A Khatibi, A Orifici… - Extreme Mechanics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Research in mechanical metamaterials has achieved extreme, unprecedented properties by
exploiting inhomogeneity in the form of periodic structures, enabled by advances in digital …

Engineering zero modes in transformable mechanical metamaterials

Z Hu, Z Wei, K Wang, Y Chen, R Zhu, G Huang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In the field of flexible metamaterial design, harnessing zero modes plays a key part in
enabling reconfigurable elastic properties of the metamaterial with unconventional …

Highly stretchable and strain‐insensitive liquid metal based elastic kirigami electrodes (LM‐eKE)

H Choi, Y Luo, G Olson, P Won, JH Shin… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Kirigami, a traditional paper‐cutting art, is a promising method for creating mechanically
robust circuitry for unconventional devices capable of extreme stretchability through …

Breathable kirigami-shaped ionotronic e-textile with touch/strain sensing for friendly epidermal electronics

R Xu, M She, J Liu, S Zhao, H Liu, L Qu… - Advanced Fiber Materials, 2022 - Springer
Flexible ionotronic devices have great potential to revolutionize epidermal electronics.
However, the lack of breathability in most ionotronic devices is a significance barrier to …

Geometric design, deformation mode, and energy absorption of patterned thin-walled structures

J Ma, S Chai, Y Chen - Mechanics of Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Thin-walled structures have been widely applied as energy absorption devices due to their
lightweight, high energy dissipating capability through large deformation, and low cost. The …

Boundary curvature guided programmable shape-morphing kirigami sheets

Y Hong, Y Chi, S Wu, Y Li, Y Zhu, J Yin - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Kirigami, a traditional paper cutting art, offers a promising strategy for 2D-to-3D shape
morphing through cut-guided deformation. Existing kirigami designs for target 3D curved …

A reprogrammable mechanical metamaterial with origami functional-group transformation and ring reconfiguration

X Hu, T Tan, B Wang, Z Yan - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Recent advancements in reprogrammable metamaterials have enabled the development of
intelligent matters with variable special properties in situ. These metamaterials employ intra …

Digital synthesis of free-form multimaterial structures for realization of arbitrary programmed mechanical responses

W Li, F Wang, O Sigmund… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Programming structures to realize any prescribed mechanical response under large
deformation is highly desired for various functionalities, such as actuation and energy …