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  • Multiscale metallic metamat...
    Zheng, Xiaoyu; Smith, William; Jackson, Julie; Moran, Bryan; Cui, Huachen; Chen, Da; Ye, Jianchao; Fang, Nicholas; Rodriguez, Nicholas; Weisgraber, Todd; Spadaccini, Christopher M

    Nature materials, 10/2016, Letnik: 15, Številka: 10
    Journal Article

    Materials with three-dimensional micro- and nanoarchitectures exhibit many beneficial mechanical, energy conversion and optical properties. However, these three-dimensional microarchitectures are significantly limited by their scalability. Efforts have only been successful only in demonstrating overall structure sizes of hundreds of micrometres, or contain size-scale gaps of several orders of magnitude. This results in degraded mechanical properties at the macroscale. Here we demonstrate hierarchical metamaterials with disparate three-dimensional features spanning seven orders of magnitude, from nanometres to centimetres. At the macroscale they achieve high tensile elasticity (>20%) not found in their brittle-like metallic constituents, and a near-constant specific strength. Creation of these materials is enabled by a high-resolution, large-area additive manufacturing technique with scalability not achievable by two-photon polymerization or traditional stereolithography. With overall part sizes approaching tens of centimetres, these unique nanostructured metamaterials might find use in a broad array of applications.