Phononic crystals (PCs) and metamaterials (MMs) can exhibit abnormal properties, even far
beyond those found in nature, through artificial design of the topology or ordered structure of …

Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are a type of multifunctional materials with salient features that
are very attractive in developing soft, lightweight, and small-scale transducers and robotics …

Mechanical metamaterials, also known as architected materials, are rationally designed
composites, aiming at elastic behaviors and effective mechanical properties beyond ('meta') …

Topological phononic crystals have attracted intensive attention due to their peculiar
topologically protected interface or edge states. Their operating frequency, however, is …

Phononic crystal (PnCs) is one of the metamaterials focusing on the wave controls. The
fabrication of this metamaterial is the key for its further industrial applications. Due to the …

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

Mechanical metamaterials are artificial composites with tunable advanced mechanical
properties. Particularly, interesting types of mechanical metamaterials are flexible …

Mechanical metamaterials provide tailorable functionality based on a careful combination of
base material and structural architecture. Truss-based metamaterials, eg, exploit structural …

The effective dynamic properties of specific periodic structures involving rubber-like
materials can be adjusted by pre-strain, thus facilitating the design of custom acoustic filters …

We study the propagation of guided elastic waves in a highly-stretched Ecoflex© plate, a
nearly-incompressible elastomer. The plate is subjected to a nearly-uniaxial stress with an …