Mechanical metamaterials enable the creation of structural materials with unprecedented
mechanical properties. However, thus far, research on mechanical metamaterials has …

Mechanical metamaterials are a class of functional materials with designability and
extraordinary mechanical properties. Due to the manufacturing limitation of traditional …

Rationally designed architected materials have attained previously untapped territories in
materials property space. The properties and behaviours of architected materials need not …

There are growing demands for multimaterial three-dimensional (3D) printing to
manufacture 3D object where voxels with different properties and functions are precisely …

Thick-panel origami has shown great potential in engineering applications. However, the
thick-panel origami created by current design methods cannot be readily adopted to …

Micro/nano functional devices featuring deep integration, intelligence, and miniaturization
have attracted considerable attention in frontier areas of research, such as micro/nano …

Vat photopolymerization (VPP) is one of the most popular additive manufacturing
technologies. It has gained significant attention among academia as well as industry due to …

Biological materials and organisms possess the fundamental ability to self‐organize,
through which different components are assembled from the molecular level up to …

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

Additive manufacturing (AM), particularly Selective Laser Melting (SLM) has enabled
development of lattice structures with unique properties. Through control of various …