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Soft Reconfigurable Metamaterials - The Next Decade and Beyond in Space Materials Research

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Soft Reconfigurable Metamaterials - The Next Decade and Beyond in Space Materials Research

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  • Author: Stephan Rudykh
Soft materials – elastomers, gels, and biological tissues – can readily develop large deformations in response to various stimuli. The large deformations may lead to the development of elastic instabilities and associated pattern formations. Recently, the new concept of using the rich instability-induced pattern transformations in soft materials has been put forward to design reconfigurable mechanical metamaterials with unusual properties [1], photonic [2] and phononic [3, 4] switches, soft robots [5, 6], sensors [7], flexible electronics[8], adhesion [9] and energy absorption [10]. Moreover, the knowledge about the mechanical instability phenomenon can help elucidate the morphogenesis in organs during growth in various biological systems [11-13].

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