Vibration and sound control is critical to many practical engineering systems in order to
minimise the detrimental effects caused by unavoidable vibrations and noises …

Rational design of artificial micro-structured metamaterials with advanced mechanical and
physical properties that are not accessible in nature materials is challenging and important …

As a branch of auxetics, the re-entrant hexagonal honeycomb has many superior
mechanical performances. However, most research focused on two-dimensional (2D) re …

Melt electrowriting (MEW) is an emerging high‐resolution additive manufacturing technique
based on the electrohydrodynamic processing of polymers. MEW is predominantly used to …

Following high profile, life changing long term mental illnesses and fatalities in sports such
as skiing, cricket and American football—sports injuries feature regularly in national and …

High-precision 3D printing technology opens to almost endless opportunities to design
complex shapes present in tailored architected materials. The scope of this work is to review …

This book discusses bulk solids that derive their mechanical properties not from those of
their base materials, but from their designed microstructures. Focusing on the negative …

Abstract Mechanical Metamaterials (MMs) are artificially designed structures with
extraordinary properties that are dependent on micro architectures and spatial tessellations …

Magnetic-responsive composites that consist of a soft matrix embedded with hard-magnetic
particles have recently been demonstrated as robust soft active materials for fast …

Topological mechanical metamaterials have emerged with the development of topological
phases and topological phase transitions in modern condensed matter physics. Their …