EPJ Applied Metamaterials

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Mirror-stacked tetra-missing rib honeycomb with persistent zero Poisson's ratio

Zheng Li, Zhenya Zhang, Xisheng Deng, Yuanxi Huang, Hui Chen and Yilin Zhu

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 8

Published online: 13 February 2026
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Design and optimisation of a turbofan blade filled with Multi-Poisson’s Ratio Soft–Hard integrated structures

Peijie Sun and Weizhu Yang

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 7

Published online: 11 February 2026
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Resistive film frequency selective rasorbers: from design, integration to function

Jiahua Yang, Kun Zhang and Lan Yao

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 6

Published online: 06 February 2026
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The structure design and application of metamaterials with negative Poisson's ratio

Xu Han, Jiahong Tian, Zijian Zhang, Guili Gao, Xiao Xu, Kai Sun and Runhua Fan

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 5

Published online: 03 February 2026
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Bandgap engineering for phononic crystals adjustment and applications

Yinglong Ma, Zongxiang Wang and Yuan Yuan

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 4

Published online: 03 February 2026
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Programmable flexible self-assembled micro/nano gratings: from fabrication strategies to tunable photonic functions

Jiaxiang He, Guoyan Dong, Yutao Qin, Zheng Zhu, Xueli Sun and Wengao Tang

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 3

Published online: 30 January 2026
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Research progress in metamaterial-inspired klystrons

Chuanchao Wang, Deyong Li and Zhaoyun Duan

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 1

Published online: 23 January 2026
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An angular dispersion-free resonant metasurface for quantum photon pair generation

Shuhao Wu, Vincenzo Pusino and David R.S. Cumming

EPJ Appl. Metamat., 13 (2026) 2

Published online: 22 January 2026

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