We study materials whose behaviors can be tailored through computational design to realize material properties that do not exist in nature or in their bulk forms, enabling safer and more sustainable engineering approaches.

Related Publications:

• J. Shim, S. Shan, A. Kosmrlj, S. H. Kang, E. R. Chen, J. C. Weaver, and K. Bertoldi, “Harnessing Instabilities for Design of Soft Reconfigurable Auxetic/Chiral Materials,” Soft Matter, 9, 8198-8202 (2013).
• S. Shan, S. H. Kang, P. Wang, C. Qu, S. Shian, E. R. Chen, J. C. Weaver, and K. Bertoldi, “Harnessing Multiple Folding Mechanisms in Soft Periodic and Porous Structures to Design Highly Tunable Phononic Crystals,” Advanced Functional Materials, 24, 4935 (2014).
• S. Shan†, S. H. Kang†, J. R. Raney†, P. Wang, L. Fang, F. Candido, J. Lewis, and K. Bertoldi, “Multistable Architected Materials for Trapping Elastic Strain Energy,” Advanced Materials, 27, 4296-4301 (2015). (†: equal contribution)
• S. Shan, S. H. Kang, Z. Zhao, L. Fang, and K. Bertoldi, “Design of Planar Isotropic Negative Poisson’s Ratio Structures,” Extreme Mechanics Letters, 4, 96-102 (2015).
• P. Wang, F. Casadei, S. H. Kang, and K. Bertoldi, “Locally Resonant Band Gaps in Periodic Beam Lattices by Tuning Connectivity,” Physical Review B, 91, 020103(R) (2015).
• J. Liu, T. Gu, S. Shan, S. H. Kang, J. C. Weaver, and K. Bertoldi, “Harnessing Buckling to Design Architected Materials That Exhibit Effective Negative Swelling,” Advanced Materials, 28, 6619-6624 (2016).
• Y. Zarate, S. Babaee, S. H. Kang, I. V. Shadrivov, D. N. Neshev, K. Bertoldi, David A. Powell, “Elastic Metamaterials for Tuning Circular Polarization of Electromagnetic Waves,” Scientific Reports, 6, 28273 (2016).
• P. Wang, Y. Zheng, M. C. Fernandes, Y. Sun, K. Xu, S. Sun, S. H. Kang, V. Tournat, and K. Bertoldi, “Harnessing Geometric Frustration to Form Band Gaps in Acoustic Networks,” Physical Review Letters, 118, 084302 (2017).
• L. Fang, J. Li, Z. Zhu, S. Orrego, and S. H. Kang*, “Piezoelectric polymer thin films with architected cuts,” Journal of Materials Research, 33, 330-342 (2018).
• S.-Y. Jeon, S. H. Kang*, “Electrochemical reactions drive morphing of materials,” Nature, 573, 198-199 (2019).
• S.-Y. Jeon+, B. Shen+, N. A. Traugutt, Z. Zhu, L. Fang, C. M. Yakacki, T. D. Nguyen, S. H. Kang*, “Synergistic Energy Absorption Mechanisms of a Bistable Architected Liquid Crystal Elastomers,” Advanced Materials, 34, 2200272 (2022). (+: equal contribution)
• B. Sun, S. H. Kang*, “A mechanically one-way material,” Science, 380, 135 (2023).