Usually, materials are either stiff or can absorb vibrations well – but rarely both. Here, we exploit buckling to make metamaterials that are both stiff and good at absorbing vibrations. Out in Advanced Materials. See also this press release.

We discovered a range of nonlinear behaviors in elastoactive chains, including self-oscillations, self-snapping and synchronization. See paper in PRL.

In our latest PRL we show that combinatorial metamaterials—think of complicated puzzle pieces fitting together to make desired shapes—can be classified efficiently and accurately by neural networks. This is surprising, since these desired shapes occur only for very few specific designs and are sensitive to even a single puzzle piece changing.

Our review on the Extreme Mechanics of Viscoelastic Metamaterials is out in APL Materials!

In this preprint, we turn odd active matter into robots.

We use chocolate metamaterials to tailor mouthfeel. Check out our recent Soft Matter paper and press release.

Deformations of auxetic metamaterials are angle-preserving and can be treated by a novel elastic theory that uses conformal maps. Paper in Nature Communications.

In our lastest PNAS article, we have developed a toolbox to create materials that feature multiple such properties simultaneously.

In this perspective article in Nature Physics, we review the latest advances in the merger between the fields of topological materials and non-Hermitian physics. A highly multidisciplinary field with lots of exciting open questions to address…

We discover a form of bulk-edge correspondence in one-dimensional non-Hermitian systems. This applies to non-reciprocal quantum atomic chains and non-reciprocal active mechanical metamaterials. Out in PNAS!

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