Mechanical metamaterials and beyond

P Jiao, J Mueller, JR Raney, X Zheng… - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Mechanical metamaterials enable the creation of structural materials with unprecedented
mechanical properties. However, thus far, research on mechanical metamaterials has …

Mechanical intelligent energy harvesting: from methodology to applications

LC Zhao, HX Zou, KX Wei, SX Zhou… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) connects everything with intelligence,
while the increase in energy consumption generated by numerous electronic devices puts …

Unifying the design space and optimizing linear and nonlinear truss metamaterials by generative modeling

L Zheng, K Karapiperis, S Kumar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The rise of machine learning has fueled the discovery of new materials and, especially,
metamaterials—truss lattices being their most prominent class. While their tailorable …

Vibration control based metamaterials and origami structures: a state-of-the-art review

JC Ji, Q Luo, K Ye - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2021 - Elsevier
Vibration and sound control is critical to many practical engineering systems in order to
minimise the detrimental effects caused by unavoidable vibrations and noises …

Nonlinear vibration energy harvesting and vibration suppression technologies: Designs, analysis, and applications

T Yang, S Zhou, S Fang, W Qin, DJ Inman - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Limited by the structure, the high-efficiency vibration energy harvesting and vibration
suppression have always been a theoretical bottleneck and technical challenge in this field …

Piezoelectric energy harvesting using mechanical metamaterials and phononic crystals

G Lee, D Lee, J Park, Y Jang, M Kim, J Rho - Communications Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Mechanical metamaterials and phononic crystals enable localizing, focusing, and guiding of
elastic or acoustic waves in various ways. Here, we describe the physical mechanisms …

Advances in spacecraft micro-vibration suppression methods

X Jiao, J Zhang, W Li, Y Wang, W Ma, Y Zhao - Progress in Aerospace …, 2023 - Elsevier
The micro-vibration generated by various disturbance sources on spacecraft seriously
affects the observation and imaging accuracy. Thus, some measures must be taken to …

Current advances and future perspectives of additive manufacturing for functional polymeric materials and devices

C Zhang, Y Li, W Kang, X Liu, Q Wang - SusMat, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Three‐dimensional (3D) printing has received extensive attention due to its unique
multidimensional functionality and customizability and has been recognized as one of the …

Acoustic and mechanical metamaterials for energy harvesting and self-powered sensing applications

G Lee, SJ Lee, J Rho, M Kim - Materials Today Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Metamaterials are artificially engineered structures that exhibit extraordinary properties
beyond the constituent materials, making them attractive for various applications in optics …

Curved-creased origami mechanical metamaterials with programmable stabilities and stiffnesses

Y Sun, K Song, J Ju, X Zhou - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Curved Crease Origami (CCO) structures exhibit intrinsic elastic behavior, resulting
from a combination of crease folding and facet bending. In this work, we introduce a generic …