Development and progress in acoustic phase-gradient metamaterials for wavefront modulation

J Guo, Y Fang, R Qu, X Zhang - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Acoustic metamaterials (AMs) for sound wave manipulation have attracted significant
attention due to their fascinating functionalities, such as anomalous reflection/refraction …

Engineering metalenses for planar optics and acoustics

B Oh, K Kim, D Lee, J Rho - Materials Today Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Metalens, a two-dimensional planar system composed of strategically engineered
subwavelength structures, facilitates precise manipulation in the process of both light and …

Hybrid metasurfaces for perfect transmission and customized manipulation of sound across water–air interface

HT Zhou, SC Zhang, T Zhu, YZ Tian… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme impedance mismatch causes sound insulation at water–air interfaces, limiting
numerous cross‐media applications such as ocean‐air wireless acoustic communication …

[HTML][HTML] Perspective: acoustic metamaterials in future engineering

Q Lu, X Li, X Zhang, M Lu, Y Chen - Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) are a type of artificial materials that make use of appropriate
structural designs and exhibit exotic properties not found in natural materials, such as …

Remote Water‐to‐Air Eavesdropping with a Phase‐Engineered Impedance Matching Metasurface

J Liu, Z Li, B Liang, JC Cheng, A Alù - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Efficiently receiving underwater sound remotely from air is a long‐standing challenge in
acoustics hindered by the large impedance mismatch at the water–air interface. Here, a …

Controllable bubble transport on bioinspired heteromorphic magnetically steerable microcilia

Y Wang, L Zhang, W Du, X Zhou, Y Guo… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Controllable transport of underwater gas bubbles is essential in various fields such as gas
energy, drug delivery, and heat transfer. Although anisotropic structures are used to …

Tunable sound transmission through water–air interface by membrane-sealed bubble metasurface

XT Gong, HT Zhou, SC Zhang, YF Wang… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The acoustic impedance mismatch between water and air limits the acoustic communication
through the water–air interface. Here, based on the resonances of bubbles, we propose a …

Water–air acoustic communication based on broadband impedance matching

P Zhou, H Jia, Y Bi, Y Yang, Y Yang, P Zhang… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Efficient acoustic communication across the water–air interface has always been expected
in the field of ocean exploration. However, the existing research works are mainly …

Acoustic superscatterer enables remote mitigation of underwater source radiation

Y Bai, X Wang, X Luo, Z Huang - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We propose a contactless and non-closed strategy to mitigate the sound radiated from an
underwater source. The problem is formulated as the interaction of the source with different …

Wireless acoustic energy harvesting through an air-water metasurface with dual coupling resonators

Z Ren, HW Dong, SD Zhao, M Chen, D Fang - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
Extremely large acoustic impedance mismatching generates a natural acoustic barrier at the
air-water interface, resulting in significantly impeding bidirectional acoustic wave …