arXiv:2607. 04123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inverse design of mechanical metamaterials seeks a periodic unit cell whose homogenized elastic properties meet a prescribed target, but current learning-based methods are data-hungry, mostly interpolative, and provide no guarantee that the generated design satisfies the specification.
By Yifan Wang
arXiv:2607. 14475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Disordered metamaterials feature microstructures with inherent randomness and irregularity, enabling them to achieve broader property coverage and superior performance unavailable in their regular counterparts.
By Yujie Xiang, Liwei Wang
arXiv:2606. 09266v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Acoustic metamaterial (AMM) inverse design is particularly challenging for broadband target responses due to acoustic dispersion: a structure that matches the desired response at one frequency may deviate at others, and modifying geometry to improve one sub-band often perturbs neighboring sub-bands.
By Yijie Li, Jiahao Xu, Ching-Chih Tsao, Lili Qiu, Jingxian Wang
arXiv:2607. 16583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Kirigami turns stiff sheets into compliant, shape-morphing structures, but its reliance on periodic cut patterns comes at a cost: correlated panel rotations couple extension to shear, so stretching one axis drives a parasitic shear that cannot be suppressed, and also confine anisotropic stiffness to a narrow, discrete set of responses that cannot be tuned independently.
By Haomin Yu, Hanxun Jin, Mingxuan Bi, Mohammad Jafari, Feng Helen Long, Michael J Greenberg, Farid Alisafaei, Guy Genin
arXiv:2604. 01480v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Metasurface inverse design can realize complex optical functionality, but turning a target optical response into executable optimization code still requires substantial expertise in computational electromagnetics and solver-specific software engineering.
By Yi Huang, Bowen Zheng, Yunxi Dong, Hong Tang, Huan Zhao, S. M. Rakibul Hasan Shawon, Hualiang Zhang
arXiv:2608. 03927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Engineered Skeletal Muscle Tissues (ESMs) have become a key structure for biomedical disease modeling and pharmacological screening, yet their functional characterization often relies on simplistic metrics like peak force, discarding critical kinetic information.
By Mattias Luber, Timo Betz