Metamaterials and Phononic Crystals

Dear Colleagues,

Phononic crystals (PnCs) and acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) are artificially architected materials endowed with the capabilities of wave manipulation, such as mechanical filtering and wave directionality, waveguiding, acoustic cloaking, and energy trapping. As unit cell characteristics determine the bulk wave propagation, the symmetry and topology of a unit cell can yield many more exotic features, such as the manifestation of bulk characteristics on edges or corners, also known as the bulk edge correspondence.

In this Special Issue of Crystals, we aim to solicit original research articles, letters, communications, and literature reviews on the development of phononic crystals and metamaterials. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• The fundamental principles of phononic crystals, metamaterials, and metasurfaces.
• The design, manufacturing, and characterization of phononic crystals, metamaterials, and metasurfaces.
• The synthesis, advanced manufacturing, and characterization of phononic crystals and metamaterials at the nano- and microscales.
• The atomistic modeling of nanoscale phononic crystals and metamaterials.
• Topological phononic crystals and metamaterials.
• Tunable metamaterials, phononic crystals, and metasurfaces.
• Temporally modulated phononic media.
• Nonlinear phononics.
• Thermal phononics.
• Numerical methods for complex phononic systems.
• Applications of phononic crystals, metamaterials, and metasurfaces.

Dr. Jihong Ma
Dr. Yanyu Chen
Guest Editors

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