Design, Material, Function, and Fabrication of Metamaterials

Recent advances in additive manufacturing have enabled the fabrication of advanced engineering materials with arbitrarily complex shapes as well as spatially distributed material properties. The tight connection between the microarchitecture and multiple material properties has led to the development of (mechanical) metamaterials, a new class of materials with customized properties and multi-functionalities, which have enormous applications in various disciplines ranging from physics to biomedical and aerospace engineering. This special topic aims to capture recent progress in different design schemes and development in fabrication techniques of 3D and 4D printed mechanical metamaterials.

Guest Editors: Lorenzo Valdevit, Mohammad Mirzaali Mazandarani, Amir Zadpoor, and Jonathan Hopkins