Recent Progress and Future Directions of Thermal and Mechanical Metamaterials
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2025) | Viewed by 622
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermal metamaterials; mechanical metamaterials; composite materials and structures; 2D materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metamaterials are artificial composite materials/structures with extraordinary properties that are not occupied by bulk natural materials. Via deliberate structural design, various exotic physical properties have been realized in the thermal field, such as cloaking, camouflage, radiative cooling, topology states, and in the mechanical field, such as ultralight weight, high stiffness/strength/energy absorption, auxetics, nonreciprocity, etc. In recent years, research has been extended to coupled physical phenomena where one physical effect acts as the driving force for another, resulting in smart designs such as thermal-responsive mechanical metamaterials. The field is embracing novel materials and functionalities such as wave manipulation, vibration suppression and smart materials. This Special Issue aims to present recent advances related to metamaterials in the thermal and mechanical fields. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics: recent developments and achievements in the design, simulation and modelling of newly emergent thermal/mechanical metamaterials and functionalities, as well as their implementation in engineering.
Dr. Qingxiang Ji
Prof. Dr. Krzysztof K. Dudek
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thermal metamaterials
- mechanical metamaterials
- thermo-mechanical behavior
- stimuli responsive, smart materials and structures
- nonlinearity
- control of wave diffusion
- wave manipulation
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