Auxetic multiphase soft composite material design through instabilities with application for acoustic metamaterials

Jian Li, Viacheslav Slesarenko, Stephan Rudykh
2018 Soft Matter  
We investigate the instability-induced pattern transformations in 3D-printed soft composites consisting of stiff inclusions and voids periodically distributed in a soft matrix, and we illustrate an application of these reversible pattern transformations as tunable acoustic metamaterials.
doi:10.1039/c8sm00874d pmid:30022182 fatcat:4ipw67y3c5fjdek5zfwl5om2my