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Active Metamaterials and Structures

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Metamaterials consist of specifically designed periodic patterns, showing tailorable mechanical, acoustic, optical, or electromagnetic properties. Reconfigurable metamaterials, also called active metamaterials, possess actively tunable patterns and/or physical properties, facilitating more versatile and programmable use.

The bilayer design strategy enables shape reconfiguration with area preservation, which can be further exploited in acoustic applications, including highly tunable bandgaps and waveguides.

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A hybrid 4D printing method is reported to fabricate freestanding liquid crystal elastomers “on-the-fly” by using laser-assisted direct ink writing integrated with digital light processing

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We develop an inverse design framework where a deep residual network replaces the conventional finite-element analysis for acceleration, realizing metamaterials with predetermined global strains under magnetic actuations

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Structurally reconfigurable electromagnetic metamaterials are developed based on magnetically responsive lattices, switching between accepting and rejecting an incident wave

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A new magneto-mechanical metamaterial permits great shape and multi-physical property tunability through a novel concept of deformation mode branching

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Multimaterial printing enables integration of magnetic soft materials and magnetic shape memory polymers to explore their enhanced multimodal shape transformation and tunable properties

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A mechanics-guided mechanism for multimodal deformation is demonstrated, which enables magnetically active metamaterial for tunable mechanical properties

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