How can additive manufacturing and metamaterials improve healthcare for aging populations? In a review published in the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, researchers examine how ...

The finding opens the door to more widespread use of so-called "mechanical metamaterials," a class of materials whose internal structures -- often produced via digital manufacturing techniques ...

This Research Topic aims to explore various aspects of mechanical metamaterials, including their design, the inspiration drawn from natural structures, and their industrial applications. Digital ...

They combine the tailored geometry of metamaterials with the programmability of digital systems. The key to DMM technology lies in bistability—a concept borrowed from digital circuits. Just like a ...

Initially, the design of metamaterials was focused on optical and electromagnetic properties. However, it has now expanded to encompass mechanical (including both quasi-static and elasto-dynamic ...

Image Credit: University of Warwick Metamaterials are incredibly promising. These are synthetic three-dimensional structures made of a minimum of two different materials. Metamaterials possess ...

Researchers are pioneering the development of metamaterials, whose properties are not dictated by molecular composition but by their structural geometry. This innovation is made possible through ...

The new digital mechanical metamaterial aims to overcome these limitations using an elegantly simple concept - encoding mechanical information into graphical stiffness patterns, much like how digital ...

The three innermost leaves contain three basic bistable units. The intermediate ring describes the basic preparation methods of multistable metamaterials: 3D printing (DIW, FDM, SLA, PolyJet, PBF ...

Imagia, a startup company working on metamaterials technology, says it has raised $4.5 million in seed funding, with which it plans to accelerate development and initial commercial deployment of its ...