A Stair-Building Strategy for Tailoring Mechanical Behavior of Re-Customizable Metamaterials (Adv. Funct. Mater. 37/2021)

Re-Customizable Metamaterials In article number 2101808, Fei Pan, Yuli Chen, and co-workers develop a “stair-building” strategy for customizing and re-customizing targeted mechanical behaviors for mechanical metamaterials. Similar to building a stair with bricks, a targeted stress-strain curve can be realized by stacking the brick-shaped loading curves of bistable units visually. Different stress-strain curves can be re-customized in a large range using the same piece of metamaterial. This strategy provides a new perspective for rapidly tailoring the mechanical behavior of re-customizable metamaterials.