Chinese researchers have successfully fabricated mechanical metamaterials with ultra-high energy absorption capacity using ion track technology. The results were published in Nature Communications as ...

The study of auxetic materials and mechanical metamaterials has ushered in a new era in materials science, where structural design and geometry enable properties beyond those of conventional materials ...

SEM image of a FIB-milled quasi-BCC beam nanolattice. (Image: Materials Research Center of the Institute of Modern Physics) Mechanical metamaterials are a class of composite materials that possess ...

Materials are usually seen as either soft (like rubber) or hard (like steel). But what if materials could change their stiffness whenever needed—soft for cushioning, stiff for support? Mechanical ...

Electromagnetic, acoustic, and elastic waveguides are commonly used in communication, imaging, and signal isolation to facilitate efficient directional transmission of signals. However, static ...

Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and Harvard University have experimentally demonstrated that new artificial materials known as metamaterials, with magnetic properties, can ...

The delicate butterfly served as the inspiration for a new lightweight lattice structure that also boasts enhanced mechanical ...

Mechanical metamaterials research demands interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. (Nanowerk News) Metamaterials are artificially-structured materials with extraordinary properties not easily ...

A team co-led by UC San Diego and the University of Michigan reports that short pulses of sound could remotely drag a structural defect through a metamaterial lattice, potentially letting researchers ...

Researchers have discovered how to design materials that necessarily have a point or line where the material doesn't deform under stress, and that even remember how they have been poked or squeezed in ...

A recent review published in npj Metamaterials brings together a decade of research showing how nano-architected mechanical metamaterials are changing the way engineers think about strength, stiffness ...