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Mechanical metamaterials

When size matters

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That the unit cell of a metamaterial can't be considered vanishingly small like in ordinary crystals has long been deemed more burden than opportunity. The emergence of a characteristic length scale in metamaterial chains may change that trend.

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Figure 1: Non-scalability in metamaterials.

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics and Institute of Nanotechnology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, 76128, Germany

    Muamer Kadic, Tobias Frenzel & Martin Wegener

  2. Institut FEMTO-ST, CNRS at the Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, 25000, France

    Muamer Kadic, Tobias Frenzel & Martin Wegener

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Kadic, M., Frenzel, T. & Wegener, M. When size matters. Nature Phys 14, 8–9 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys4287

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