Mechanical metamaterials are rationally designed structures of precision geometrical arrangements leading to unusual physical and mechanical properties. Inspiration for mechanical metamaterials design ...

(Nanowerk News) In the quest to develop robots and interactive machines that are safe, adaptable, and intelligent like organisms in nature, researchers have increasingly focused attention on soft and ...

McInerney and colleagues’ tube-like design is made from a lattice of beams arranged in such a way that low-energy vibrational ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The materials we interact with every day—whether they are steel, glass, or rubber—have properties like strength, flexibility, or brittleness that stem from their chemical ...

Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the AMOLF institute in the Netherlands have invented the first mechanical metamaterials that easily transfer motion effortlessly in ...

A £2.5 million funding will fund a new network to further metamaterials research, led by a University of Warwick researcher. Image Credit: University of Warwick Metamaterials are incredibly promising.

Researchers categorize origami- and kirigami-based mechanical metamaterials, artificially engineered materials with unusual mechanical properties, and subdivided them into rigid or deformable ...

Human progress has always depended on the ability to store and release energy efficiently. Springs, buffers, and energy-damping materials power everything from industrial machines to futuristic ...

In science and engineering, it's unusual for innovation to come in one fell swoop. It's more often a painstaking plod through which the extraordinary gradually becomes ordinary. Subscribe to our ...

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 ...

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 ...

The so-called “field-responsive mechanical metamaterials” (FRMMs) use a viscous, magnetically responsive fluid that is manually injected into the hollow struts and beams of 3D-printed lattices. Unlike ...