and the metamaterial assembled at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has intriguing acoustic capabilities. The team constructed this first test of the metamaterial ...

MIT engineers have fabricated a metamaterial that is not only strong but also stretchy. Their new method could enable stretchable ceramics, glass, and metals, for tear-proof textiles or stretchy ...

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" ...

OMAMs, multifunctional tunable ultradeep subwavelength metamaterials, enable the generation of multiple arbitrary acoustic fields with ultradeep subwavelength resolution, facilitate the switching ...

3D phononic crystals find applications in acoustic cloaking, vibration isolation, and thermal insulation. Phononic crystals are closely related to the concept of metamaterials, which are artificial ...

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" ...

Overall behavior of composite materials and metamaterials. The fundamentals of homogenization for elastic composites, variational principles and energy-based bounds, and dynamic homogenization ...

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" ...

Engineers print synthetic 'metamaterials' that are both strong and stretchy A new method could enable stretchable ceramics, glass, and metals, for tear-proof textiles or stretchy semiconductors ...

(Nanowerk News) In metamaterials design, the name of the game has long been “stronger is better.” Metamaterials are synthetic materials with microscopic structures that give the overall material ...