Mechanical metamaterial

Mechanical metamaterials are materials that emulate mechanical properties through structuring at smaller size-scales.
They are in contrast to optical metamaterials, electrical metamaterials and other non-mechanical metamaterials.

Known and existing cases of (passive) mechanical metamaterials are:

• Chainmaiile
• Textiles

Future mechanical metamaterials based on gemstone like compounds (in particular based on base materials with high potential)

• gemstone based metamaterials

Many unusual properties are possible.
See: Metamaterial#Examples

Related

• Metamaterial
• Gemstone based metamaterial
• Topological mechanical metamaterial
• Going off-topic: Tensegrity

External links

• Auxetics – one peculiar example of an nigh infinite amount of possibilities