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

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

Mechanical metamaterials are engineered materials with unconventional mechanical
behavior that originates from artificially programmed microstructures along with intrinsic …

Different from conventional materials, materials with negative Poisson's ratios expand
laterally when stretched longitudinally. Known as 'auxetic'materials, the effect means they …

Auxetic materials and structures have attracted increasing attention because of their
extraordinary mechanical properties. Various types of auxetic tubular structures have been …

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 …

In the past decade, mechanical metamaterials have garnered increasing attention owing to
its novel design principles which combine the concept of hierarchical architecture with …

Mechanical metamaterials exhibit properties and functionalities that cannot be realized in
conventional materials. Originally, the field focused on achieving unusual (zero or negative) …

Shape morphing and the possibility of having control over mechanical properties via
designed deformations have attracted a lot of attention in the materials community and led to …

Soft electronics are intensively studied as the integration of electronics with dynamic
nonplanar surfaces has become necessary. Here, a discussion of the strategies in materials …