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

J. Li, V. Slesarenko & S. Rudykh

Soft Matter — Vol. 14, Issue 30, pp. 6171-6180

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Abstract

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.