An elasto-mechanical unfeelability cloak made of pentamode metamaterials

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Buckmann T ^a   Thiel, M ^a,b   Kadic, M ^a   Schittny, R ^a   Wegener, M ^a,b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NANOSCRIBE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER;

ELECTRODYNAMICS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; POLYMER; RESEARCH WORK; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOMETRY; MATERIALS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NANOFABRICATION; OPTICS; PENTAMODE METAMATERIAL; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84903126204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5130     Document Type: Article

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