Print Email Facebook Twitter Mechanical meta-materials Title Mechanical meta-materials Author Zadpoor, A.A. (TU Delft Biomaterials & Tissue Biomechanics) Date 2016 Abstract The emerging concept of mechanical meta-materials has received increasing attention during the last few years partially due to the advances in additive manufacturing techniques that have enabled fabricating materials with arbitrarily complex micro/nano-architectures. The rationally designed micro/nano-architecture of mechanical meta-materials gives rise to unprecedented or rare mechanical properties that could be exploited to create advanced materials with novel functionalities. This paper presents an overview of the recent developments in the area of mechanical meta-materials. Extremal materials that are extremely stiff in certain modes of deformation, while extremely soft in other modes of deformation are discussed first. Penta-mode, dilational, and other auxetic meta-materials are all discussed within the context of extremal materials. Negative meta-materials are presented next with special focus on materials with negative compressibility and negative stiffness. Ultra-property meta-materials are the topic of the following section that covers ultra-light, ultra-stiff, and ultra-tough materials. Finally, the emerging areas of research in mechanical meta-materials including active, adaptive, programmable, and origami-based mechanical meta-materials are reviewed. This paper concludes with some suggestions for future research. Subject Gold for GoldOpen Access To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e197fcee-76d9-499d-b97d-d6e905603e28 DOI https://doi.org/10.1039/c6mh00065g ISSN 2051-6355 Source Materials Horizons, 3 (5), 371-381 Bibliographical note Gold For Gold voucher Au-036289 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 A.A. Zadpoor Files PDF c6mh00065g.pdf 2.65 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e197fcee-76d9-499d-b97d-d6e905603e28/datastream/OBJ/view