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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Soft Matter Physics
  • Acoustics

Background:

  • Metamaterials offer unique wave manipulation properties.
  • Stimuli-responsive hydrogels possess tunable characteristics.
  • Existing soft metamaterials often suffer from high energy dissipation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore programmable metamaterials using stimuli-responsive hydrogels.
  • To demonstrate bandgap formation and tuning in a hydrogel-based phononic chain.
  • To investigate the impact of light irradiation on metamaterial properties.

Main Methods:

  • Design of a photo-responsive hydrogel beam.
  • Patterned light irradiation for re-programmable periodicity.
  • Systematic study of bandgap characteristics and parameter effects.
  • Finite-element model simulations for validation.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated bandgap formation and tunability in the hydrogel metamaterial.
  • Observed that increased light exposure region size reduces bandgap width and center frequency.
  • Found that higher photo-sensitive group concentration increases bandgap width and attenuation while reducing center frequency.

Conclusions:

  • Stimuli-responsive hydrogels are suitable for creating low-loss, re-programmable soft metamaterials.
  • This approach enables novel control over structural dynamic response and wave propagation.
  • The developed hydrogel metamaterial overcomes limitations of lossy soft materials for wave phenomena.