This broad review summarizes recent advances and “hot” research topics in nanophononics
and elastic, acoustic, and mechanical metamaterials based on results presented by the …

Phononic materials are periodically arranged building blocks in the form of material
properties, geometries, and/or boundary conditions. This synthetic architecture makes …

Materials with target nonlinear mechanical response can support the design of innovative
soft robots, wearable devices, footwear, and energy‐absorbing systems, yet it is challenging …

Harnessing the rich nonlinear dynamics of highly deformable materials has the potential to
unlock the next generation of functional smart materials and devices. However, unlocking …

Flexible mechanical metamaterials are compliant structures engineered to achieve unique
properties via the large deformation of their components. While their static character has …

We propose a design of a metamaterial for magnetically tunable propagation of nonlinear
vector solitary waves. The metamaterial consists of a periodic array of units of hard-magnetic …

Solid–solid phase transformations can affect energy transduction and change material
properties (eg, superelasticity in shape memory alloys and soft elasticity in liquid crystal …

Domain walls, commonly occurring at the interface of different phases in solid-state
materials, have recently been harnessed at the structural scale to enable additional modes …

We investigate the effect of structural periodicity on elastic longitudinal and flexural wave
propagation in parity-time (PT) symmetric prototypical elastic metamaterial rods and beams …

Topological insulators, originated in quantum systems, are recently generalized to
electromagnetic, acoustic, and elastic wave fields due to interesting wave controlling …