Designing and Manufacturing Hard and Soft Mechanical Metamaterials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2022) | Viewed by 10039
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Interests: mechanical properties; mechanical behavior of materials; mechanical testing; mechanics of materials; finite element analysis; acoustics; solid mechanics; finite element modeling; biomechanics; biomaterials
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Dear Colleagues,
Mechanical metamaterials are rationally designed materials composed of periodically repeating elements that are engineered to present exotic properties that cannot be found in nature. The apparent properties of mechanical metamaterials have a stronger dependency on their microgeometrical features rather than the base material they are made of. Even though several theoretical and conceptual designs have been presented since decades ago, many types of metamaterials have not been realized until very recently, mainly due to limitations in manufacturing and sufficient computing power.
Recent advancements in manufacturing technologies including additive manufacturing, lithography techniques, macro-, micro-, and nanofabrication techniques, and new material developments have enabled manufacturing of many new types of mechanical metamaterials with advanced functionalities and attractive properties never seen before.
This Special Issue explores the latest advances in designing and manufacturing of such functional structures made of metals, polymers, ceramics, etc. Such metamaterials can be either passive (keep their shape during their application) or active (change their shape upon request by the user).
Dr. Reza Hedayati
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Designer materials
- Mechanical metamaterials
- Advanced manufacturing
- Advanced materials
- Metasurfaces
- Additive manufacturing
- Biomaterials
- Nanotechnology
- Flexible and stretchable bioelectronic devices
- Shape memory materials
- Self-assembling soft structures
- Origami and Kirigami
- Soft robotics
- Micro-to-nano fabrication of soft biomaterials
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