Advances in Metamaterials for Sound and Vibration Control

Dear Colleagues,

Sound and vibration control are always a critical issue in our society and research community. Metamaterials are a broad family of artificially structured materials with unusual effective properties and functionalities. Wide technical possibilities are opened by the design of new metamaterials in sound and vibration control. Via the designed metamaterials, flexible manipulations of acoustic and elastic waves have been achieved, such as cloaking, beaming, diffusing, illusion, and holograms. Fascinating applications, such as high-speed analog computing, ultrasensitive detection, efficient wave-guiding, low-frequency sound absorption, acoustic sensing, vibration isolation, vibration identification, and vibration energy harvesting, have been demonstrated in recent years. Nowadays, there is no doubt that we have been brought into a new era of metamaterials. With the new development of topological metamaterials, origami metamaterials, programmable metamaterials, random metamaterials, active metamaterials, four-dimensional metamaterials, a lot of new exciting studies will emerge in the area of sound and vibration control in the future.

Based on the above considerations, we would like to invite researchers to contribute original research papers as well as review papers for this Special Issue which aims to serve as a research milestone that summarizes the most recent progress in the field of metamaterials for sound and vibration control.

Prof. Qingbo He
Prof. Dr. Tianzhi Yang
Prof. Dr. Baizhan Xia
Dr. Tianxi Jiang
Guest Editors

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