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  • Materials Science
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Metamaterials

Background:

  • Mechanical extremal materials offer tunable elastic properties by utilizing zero modes.
  • Existing design frameworks struggle with arbitrary construction and reprogramming of these zero modes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a novel method for defining and reprogramming zero modes in 2D extremal materials.
  • To enable arbitrary construction and dynamic tuning of metamaterial properties.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing straight-line mechanisms (SLMs) to prescribe zero modes.
  • Employing planar symmetry to coordinate zero modes.
  • In situ reprogramming by reorienting SLMs.

Main Results:

  • Designed, tested, and reprogrammed centimeter-scale isotropic, orthotropic, and chiral extremal materials.
  • Achieved smooth, reversible interpolation between different material modalities and properties (e.g., Poisson's ratio).
  • Enabled selective chirality without altering global structure.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed methodology offers an explicit strategy for designing and tuning 2D extremal materials.
  • Enables dynamic mechanical metamaterial construction to achieve a wide range of elastic properties.
  • Overcomes limitations of existing metamaterial design frameworks.