Mechanical Metamaterials and Their Engineering Applications

In the past decade, mechanical metamaterials have garnered increasing attention owing to its novel design principles which combine the concept of hierarchical architecture with material size effects at micro/nanoscale. This strategy is demonstrated to exhibit superior mechanical performance that allows us to colonize unexplored regions in the material property space, including ultrahigh strength‐to‐density ratios, extraordinary resilience, and energy absorption capabilities with brittle constituents. In the recent years, metamaterials with unprecedented mechanical behaviors such as negative Poisson's ratio, twisting under uniaxial forces, and negative thermal expansion are also realized. This paves a new…

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