The rapid progress of advanced manufacturing, multidisciplinary integration and artificial
intelligence has ushered in a new era of technological development in the design of …

Origami‐based designs refer to the application of the ancient art of origami to solve
engineering problems of different nature. Despite being implemented at dimensions that …

Transformations in shape are critical to actuation in engineered metamaterials. Existing
engineering metamaterials are typically limited to a small number of shape transformations …

Multistable mechanical metamaterials are a type of mechanical metamaterials with special
features, such as reusability, energy storage and absorption capabilities, rapid deformation …

Embedding mechanical logic into soft robotics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS),
and robotic materials can greatly improve their functional capacity. However, such logical …

Abstract Information processing using material's own properties has gained increasing
interest. Mechanical metamaterials, due to their diversity of deformation modes and wide …

Mechanical metamaterials with energy-dissipating properties can provide impact mitigation
in the field of engineering. However, current energy-dissipating metamaterials frequently …

To obtain a structure with excellent energy-absorbing ability, based on the traditional star-
shaped honeycomb (SSH), a crossed star-shaped honeycomb (CSSH) was designed via …

A multi-step quasi-zero-stiffness metamaterial (MS-QZSM) is proposed, which exhibits
potential applications in various engineering scenarios, such as multi-vibration mitigation …

Recently, an increasing interest in reinforced honeycomb structures (RHC) due to their
exceptional mechanical properties and potential applications in energy absorption. This …