The field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine has been evolving at a rapid pace
with numerous novel and interesting biomaterials being reported. Hydrogels have come a …

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

Mechanical metamaterials made of flexible building blocks can exhibit a plethora of extreme
mechanical responses, such as negative elastic constants, shape-changes …

Some bi/multi‐stable mechanical meta‐structures are implemented as mechanical memory
devices, which are with limits such as complex structural forms, low information storage …

Active topological phase transitions widely occur in active matters and biological systems,
such as developing embryos. Since the discovery of the intriguing bulk-boundary effects of …

Tuning the resonance frequency of the local resonators in an active way and obtaining a
broad bandgap at low frequency is a long-lasting challenge for traditional elastic …

The problems of vibration and noise have seriously affected people's production and life.
Hydrogel can be used as damping material because of its good viscoelasticity, but the …

Elastic metamaterials favor the wide bandgap generation, but their formation mechanisms
impose certain constraints on the achievable locations and widths. To overcome this …

Hydrogel-based iontronics is emerging as a promising frontier in healthcare and human-
machine interfacing (HMI), offering excellent compatibility with biological systems in terms of …

Mechanical metamaterials have garnered significant attention due to their extraordinary
mechanical properties derived from structural design. This displays their huge potential for …