Engineering zero modes in transformable mechanical metamaterials

Reconfigurable elastic properties are essential for functional mechanical metamaterials. Here, the authors propose a 3D metamaterial with engineered zero modes, and experimentally demonstrate its transformability covering all seven extremal metamaterial types, leading to programmable wave functions.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhou Hu, Zhibo Wei, Kun Wang, Yan Chen, Rui Zhu, Guoliang Huang, Gengkai Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36975-2