Paving the way to industrial application of mechanical metamaterials in various fields.

Paving the way to industrial application of mechanical metamaterials in various fields.
Current research in the field of steel metallurgical engineering at University of Science and Technology, Beijing.
A Nacre-mimicking composite material of graphene and copper was developed by a unique processing approach which is simple, scalable, and can be applied to an array of 2D material systems to achieve bio-inspired microstructures.
In a synergistic effort to combine HEA design with martensite design, multifunctional non-equiatomic high entropy alloys have been fabricated with superelastic, high damping, and excellent cryogenic properties, within a single composition.
Spandex is pre-stretched and twisted with the free standing nylon to compensate the difference of stiffness to obtain a double-helix twisted and coiled soft actuator.
This Special Section covers various aspects of high manganese steels revealing the ongoing interest both in the application-focussed technological development as well as in the scientific interest in the various physical phenomena, characteristic for this fascinating group of materials.
The progress made in the recent years in the field of exothermic self-propagating high-temperature synthesis processing of various classes of advanced materials is reflected in the present Special Section of Advanced Engineering Materials.
The biocompatibility, magnetic susceptibility and mechanical properties of commercially pure zirconium and zirconium alloys are reviewed and their potential use as MRI-compatible implant materials is discussed.
Researchers 3D printed piezoelectric sensors in a single step at room temperature by extruding a piezoelectric nanocomposite sandwiched between two layers of silver paste acting as electrodes.
A relatively new process using oxide reduction and expansion creates small pores within metal particles and has the potential to bridge the gap between efficiency and performance.