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ArticleNature communications2024

Zero modes activation to reconcile floppiness, rigidity, and multistability into an all-in-one class of reprogrammable metamaterials.

Lei Wu, Damiano Pasini

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Programmable Sequential 4D Actuation in Multistable Kirigami Metamaterials.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  2. Dimple-Encoded Reprogrammable Origami.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  3. Bioinspired Morphology-Decoupled Soft Gripper with Enhanced Bidirectional Grasping Capability.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  7. Unfurling packed-flat tubes into self-locked stiff structures.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  8. Folding a single high-genus surface into a repertoire of metamaterial functionalities.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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2 authors.

Lei WuDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Damiano PasiniDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. damiano.pasini@mcgill.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3021-7118

Funding

China Scholarship Council (CSC) 202006280037
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Existing mechanical metamaterials are typically designed to either withstand loads as a stiff structure, shape morph as a floppy mechanism, or trap energy as a multistable matter, distinct behaviours that correspond to three primary classes of macroscopic solids. Their stiffness and stability are sealed permanently into their architecture, mostly remaining immutable post-fabrication due to the invariance of zero modes. Here, we introduce an all-in-one reprogrammable class of Kagome metamaterials that enable the in-situ reprogramming of zero modes to access the apparently conflicting properties of all classes. Through the selective activation of metahinges via self-contact, their architecture can be switched to acquire on-demand rigidity, floppiness, or global multistability, bridging the seemingly uncrossable gap between structures, mechanisms, and multistable matters. We showcase the versatile generalizations of the metahinge and remarkable reprogrammability of zero modes for a range of properties including stiffness, mechanical signal guiding, buckling modes, phonon spectra, and auxeticity, opening a plethora of opportunities for all-in-one materials and devices.

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PMCPMC11006655

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