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 ...

Learn how ancient Chinese characters are inspiring 3D-printed metamaterials, blending cultural history with modern ...

From the geometric symmetry in Islamic tiles to the mechanical versatility of origami, cultural patterns have an extensive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Cultural patterns have an extensive range of structures, so, inspired by cultural geometries, researchers from the University ...