Metamaterials and devices that provide cloaking functionalities have strong potential to
bring fundamental scientific and engineering developments including invisibility, sound and …

Guided waves, elastic waves propagating through bounded structures, play a pivotal role in
various applications, including ultrasonic non-destructive testing and structural health …

In the field of flexible metamaterial design, harnessing zero modes plays a key part in
enabling reconfigurable elastic properties of the metamaterial with unconventional …

Artificially engineered metamaterials/metasurfaces provide an extraordinary strategy for
tailoring the electromagnetic properties of devices, which may break conventional limits in …

Mechanical cloaks are materials engineered to manipulate the elastic response around
objects to make them indistinguishable from their homogeneous surroundings. Typically …

Multifunctional metamaterials (MFMs) capable of energy harvesting and vibration control are
particularly attractive for smart structures, wearable/biointegrated electronics, and intelligent …

Solids built out of active components have exhibited odd elastic stiffness tensors whose
active moduli appear in the antisymmetric part and which give rise to non-Hermitian static …

Metamaterials with twist effects can exhibit remarkable rotational deformation under tension
or compression, a behavior that is uncommonly observed in conventional materials. Despite …

Spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) endow light with intriguing properties and applications such as
photonic spin-Hall effects and spin-dependent vortex generations. However, it is …

Previous theory and experiment has shown that introducing strong (nonlocal) beyond-
nearest-neighbor interactions in addition to (local) nearest-neighbor interactions into …