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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26034-z
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [AF9550-18-1-0342, AF 9550-20-0279]
- Army Research Office [W911NF-18-1-0031]
- Complex Dynamics and Systems Program of the Army Research Office [W911NF-19-1-0268]
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship [1746045]
- KITP program on Symmetry, Thermodynamics, and Topology in Active Matter [PHY-1748958]
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Mechanical metamaterials exhibit unique properties not found in ordinary materials, such as active metamaterials with self-sensing characteristics demonstrated by the authors. These active metamaterials can convert electrical energy into mechanical work, and their odd modulus allows for localized vibrational modes at sample boundaries.
Mechanical metamaterials can be engineered with properties not possible in ordinary materials. Here the authors demonstrate and study an active metamaterial with self-sensing characteristics that enables odd elastic properties not observed in passive media. Materials made from active, living, or robotic components can display emergent properties arising from local sensing and computation. Here, we realize a freestanding active metabeam with piezoelectric elements and electronic feed-forward control that gives rise to an odd micropolar elasticity absent in energy-conserving media. The non-reciprocal odd modulus enables bending and shearing cycles that convert electrical energy into mechanical work, and vice versa. The sign of this elastic modulus is linked to a non-Hermitian topological index that determines the localization of vibrational modes to sample boundaries. At finite frequency, we can also tune the phase angle of the active modulus to produce a direction-dependent bending modulus and control non-Hermitian vibrational properties. Our continuum approach, built on symmetries and conservation laws, could be exploited to design others systems such as synthetic biofilaments and membranes with feed-forward control loops.
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