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

Nanoscale spacecrafts have shed light on an audacious but promising vision for interstellar
travel to neighboring planets beyond the solar system. The nanocrafts can be accelerated to …

Mechanical metamaterials are artificial composites that exhibit a wide range of advanced
functionalities such as negative Poisson's ratio, shape shifting, topological protection …

In recent years, lattice kirigami metamaterials have attracted considerable attention due to
their unconventional and often intriguing mechanical properties. However, the absence of a …

Abstract The three-dimensional (3D) chiral mechanical metamaterials were found to exhibit
unique compression-twisting coupling effect. The metamaterial will twist in addition to axial …

The strange metallic regime across a number of high-temperature superconducting
materials presents numerous challenges to the classic theory of Fermi liquid metals. Recent …

The recent finding of collective actuation in active solids—solids embedded with active units—
is a new promise for the design of multifunctional materials with genuine autonomy, and a …

Transformable mechanical structures can switch between distinct mechanical states.
Whether this kind of structure can be self-assembled from simple building blocks at …

In this work, solitary wave solutions of particle mechanical metamaterials are studied, in
which the mass-in-mass structure with local resonators is considered. The Hertzian contact …

Systems driven far from equilibrium often retain structural memories of their processing
history. This memory has, in some cases, been shown to dramatically alter the material …