This Collection aims to advance the understanding and development of acoustic and elastic metamaterials, with a particular focus on wave manipulation, vibration and noise control, and novel ...

Advances in machine learning and shape-memory polymers are enabling engineers to design for mechanical performance first and ...

Artificial structural materials composed of subwavelength periodic or quasi-periodic elements, known as metamaterials, have garnered widespread attention and in-depth exploration in the scientific and ...

Metamaterials that mimic the order in matters have opened an exciting gateway to reach unprecedented physical properties and functionality unattainable from naturally existing materials. The "atoms" ...

Image Fig. 1. Overview of Metamaterials in Ultrafast Optics and Photonics. The left panel illustrates the modulation of ultrashort pulses through the use of metasurfaces. This includes various ...

The "The Global Market for Metamaterials to 2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Metamaterials are artificially engineered composites with exceptional material properties ...

Leiden physicists Daniela Kraft and Julio Melio have created soft structures that can take on different shapes without any external drive in their lab. They present their research on microscale ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) All mechanical systems exhibit vibrational resonances, where energy transmission through the structure spikes at certain natural frequencies. This resonance effect stems from the ...

There is an ongoing search to design novel new forms of intelligent, active matter that can create its own energy, sense, compute, and communicate, just as the human brain does. This burgeoning ...