Rational design of artificial micro-structured metamaterials with advanced mechanical and
physical properties that are not accessible in nature materials is challenging and important …

Mechanical metamaterials are man-made structures with counterintuitive mechanical
properties that originate in the geometry of their unit cell instead of the properties of each …

Material properties can be tailored through modification of their geometry or architecture.
With this concept, a lot of smart materials, metamaterials, and smart structures have been …

Honeycomb structures, inspired from bee honeycombs, had found widespread applications
in various fields, including architecture, transportation, mechanical engineering, chemical …

The study of phononic materials and structures is an emerging discipline that lies at the
crossroads of vibration and acoustics engineering and condensed matter physics. Broadly …

Chirality reveals symmetry breaking of the fundamental interaction of elementary particles. In
condensed matter, for example, the chirality of electrons governs many unconventional …

This book discusses bulk solids that derive their mechanical properties not from those of
their base materials, but from their designed microstructures. Focusing on the negative …

Poisson's ratio had long been considered to be an intrinsic material property, confined within
a narrow domain and governed solely by the geometry of interatomic bonds. Materials with …

In this work, a new hierarchical lattice design is proposed by replacing the original straight
beams of face-centered cubic (FCC) lattice with a string of higher-level circular beams from …

The research field of auxetics, materials or structures exhibiting a negative Poisson's ratio,
has received attention because of the unusually advantageous material properties that can …