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News 2023

December 1 Zhaohang Zhang and Anastasiia Krushynska presented the research activities of the Metamechanics group at Orbia (WavIn) company. We are very excited about the started collaboration and look forward to seeing more industrial applications of metamaterials and joint projects.
November 30 The paper "Additively manufactured rigid-flexible metamaterials for advanced sound control" by Zhaohang Zhang, Dimitry Krushinsky, and Anastasiia Krushynska is published in the INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings. The text is here.
November 27 The editorial "Fundamentals and applications of metamaterials: breaking the limits" by Anastasiia Krushynska, Shahram Janbaz, Joo Hwan Oh, Martin Wegener, and Nicholas Fang is accepted for publication in the Applied Physics Letters journal. It overviews the state-of-the-art research on the design, functionalities, and applications of different types of metamaterials.
November 24 The paper of Zhaohang Zhang "Shape-morphing of Tubular Structures with Tailorable Mechanical Properties" is accepted for publication in the reputable Advanced Engineering Materials journal. Congratulations, Zhaohang!
November 23 An interview with Dr. A.O. Krushynska on the breakthrough with metamaterial mandibular implants is published in the University newspaper U-krant. It can be read here.
November 16 Dr. A.O. Krushynska is a partner in the concortium of the "iMPaCT-implants: intelligent Manufacturing from PAtient-Centred Technology" project led by UMCG and funded by the Samenwerkingsverband Noord-Nederland (SNN) in the framework of the EU programme for regional development! This project aims to implement cutting-edge research on innovative personalized medical implants. The news coverage is here.
November 1 Hema Chandra Venkata Megha Shyam Veluvali has started his Ph.D. project on Metamaterial-based mandibular implants to reduce bone resorption. Congratulations, Shyam, and welcome to the group!
October 30 Sidhardth Beniwal introduced the Metamechanics group to the SEP Evaluation Committee. Well done, Sidharth!
October 19 The paper of Yu Xue, the visiting Ph.D. student from Harbin Engineering University in China, entitled "Widely tunable magnetorheological metamaterials with nonlinear amplification mechanism" is accepted for publication in the International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. Great job, Yu, congratulations! The full text is here.
October 15 The paper "Analytical characterization of the dynamic response of viscoelastic metamaterials" by Sabiju Valiya Valappil, Anastasiia O. Krushynska, and Alejandro M. Aragón is published in the Computational Materials Science. Great job, Sabiju! The text is here.
September 29 Sidhardth Beniwal and Anastasiia Krushynska showcased the research activities of the group at the European Researchers Night in Forum Groningen. We were very pleased by the vivid interest of the visitors to metamaterials and the excellent organization of the event. Many visitors also participated in the Quiz on Noise pollution organized by A. Krushynska.
September 28 MSc student Leon Wierenga has successfully defended his research MSc project. Congratulations, Leon, and lots of luck with finalizing your studies!
September 14 Dr. A.O. Krushynska was interviewed by the students following the Nature of Scientific Disciplines course in the podcast series. Her interview was about sound and vibration manipulations by metamaterials. The recording is available here.
September 5 Dr. A. O. Krushynska gave an invited talk at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium 2023 in Montreal, Canada on dissipative elastic metamaterials and their characterization. The paper can be found here.
August 28 Dr. A.O. Krushynska gave a plenary talk at the online conference "Modern Problems in Mechanica" in Kyiv, Ukraine about the activities of the Metamechanics group. It was nice seeing many Ukranina colleagues doing their best in these difficult times.
August 23 Dr. A.O. Krushynska gave an invited talk at the INTER-NOISE 2023 conference in Chiba, Japan about sound absorption by different types of acoustic metamaterials.
July 18 Dr. A.O. Krushynska gave an invited talk at the META2023 conference in Paris, France, about Frequency-Driven Wave Steering in Elastic Metamaterials.
July 5 Dr. A.O. Krushynska gave an invited talk at the 29th Nordic Congress of Mathematicians with EMS on the applications of mechanical and elastic metamaterials in shape-morphing, and ultrasonic applications.

July 1 Sidharth Beniwal has started his Ph.D. project on analyzing material properties of additively manufactured elastic metamaterials. Congratulations, Sidharth, and best of luck!
June 26 IEM B.Sc. students Ariajn Westra, Wisse Forkertsma, and Damien Dufour have finished their integration projects on the applications of metamaterials in exoskeletons, for noise-absorbing barriers, and deep-water wave control. Your results are very exciting, well done!
June 22 Dr. A.O. Krushynska gives an invited lecture as a part of the KTH (Stockholm, Sweden) Solid Mechanics seminar series. The lecture is about the research activities of the MetaMechanics group; the recording is available here. Many thanks to everyone who attended, for your interesting questions and follow-ups.
June 13 Dr. A.O. Krushynska gave an invited talk at the Phononics-2023 conference in beautiful Manchester, U.K. Thanks to the organizers for the invitation and for organizing such an excellent, lively, and interactive event. It was an excellent opportunity to meet the metamaterials community and old friends.
May 26 ME MSc student Bastiaan Piest has started his MSc research project on controlling turbulence in pipes in collaboration with ASML. Best of luck, Bastiaan!
April 22 Visiting Ph.D. student Yu Xue from the College of Aerospace and Civil Engineering, Harbin Engineering University in China joins the group for one year. Welcome, Yu! Looking forward to collaborating with you!
April 17 Enthusiastic B.Sc. students Ariajn Westra, Wisse Forkertsma, Hidde de Lange, and Damien Dufour officially start their projects about the applications of metamaterials in medical devices, noise mitigation, and water wave control. Welcome to the group and best of luck to you, guys, in these exciting endeavors!
April 17 Official take-off for the new elective M.Sc. course on Composites and Metamaterials. This will be exciting!
March 20-24 Dr. Krushynska gave a Ph.D. course "Elastic metamaterials: fundamentals and applications" at the University degli Study Federico II hosted by Prof. Sergio de Rosa and Dr. Giuseppe Petrone. It was a fantastic and inspiring time! We look forward to further collaboration with this group!
Jan 27 The overview paper "Emerging topics in nanophononics and elastic, acoustic, and mechanical metamaterials: an overview" by Anastasiia O. Krushynska, Daniel Torrent, Alejandro M. Aragón, Raffaele Ardito, Osama R. Bilal, Bernard Bonello, Federico Bosia, Yi Chen, Johan Christensen, Andrea Colombi, Steven A. Cummer, Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, Fernando Fraternali, Pavel I. Galich, Pedro David Garcia, Jean-Philippe Groby, Sebastien Guenneau, Michael R. Haberman, Mahmoud I. Hussein, Shahram Janbaz, Noé Jiménez, Abdelkrim Khelif, Vincent Laude, Mohammad J. Mirzaali, Pawel Packo, Antonio Palermo, Yan Pennec, Rubén Picó, María Rosendo López, Stephan Rudykh, Marc Serra-Garcia, Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres, Timothy A. Starkey, Vincent Tournat, and Oliver B. Wright is published today in the Nanophotonics journal. Enjoy the open-access version at 10.1515/nanoph-2022-0671
Jan 11 The CMME group has the New Year's Dinner at "47 Anno Domini". Looking forward to seeing the group members there!

News 2022

Dec 25 Merry Christmas and very happy and inspiring 2023 to everyone!
Dec 23 The research paper in collaboration with Prof. Martin van Hecke (University of Leiden and AMOLF) is submitted to a journal and published on arXiv. Enjoy reading!
Dec 20 Dr. Krushynska gave an online invited talk at the 3rd International ESMAC-2022 conference, which took place at KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha in India, about the dissipative dynamics of polymer phononics. Many thanks to Sugato Haira and Dr. Rojalin Sahu for the invitation and flexibility with the schedule!
Dec 15 Dr. Krushynska gave a seminar overviewing the activities of the Metamechanics group in the series of the ISVR seminars at the University of Southampton in the U.K.
Dec 6 Dr. Krushynska got the university teacher qualification.
Dec 6 The paper overviewing the results presented at the EUROMECH Colloquium "Emerging topics in acoustic and mechanical metamaterials" is accepted for publication in Nanophotonics. Looking forward to sharing its final version with all the 34 co-authors!
Nov 25 Dr. Krushynska gave a lecture on applying metamaterials to develop adaptable robotic grippers as a part of the "Technasium" program for secondary-school pupils. It was inspiring to see the pupils' enthusiasm about the possibilities of metamaterials!
Nov 18 The research on 3D Printed Graphene Piezoresistive Microelectromechanical System Sensors is highlighted on the Cover of the Advanced Functional Materials (link)!
Nov 10 Together with Dr. E. Jurak and Dr. J. Xie, dr. Krushynska co-organized a career-activity event "Women in academia" aimed at attracting more women in academia.
Sep 22 Dr. Krushynska is awarded a 360 000 euros grant in the framework of the Open Competition Domain Science-M Programme from the National Dutch Research funding agency (NWO)! We are so happy about it!
Aug 26 The collaboration paper from the research group of dr. A. G. P. Kottapalli on 3D Printed Graphene Piezoresistive Microelectromechanical System Sensors to Explain the Ultrasensitive Wake Tracking of Wavy Seal Whiskers is published in the Advanced Functional Materials journal (link)! Congratulations to all the co-authors and many thanks to the team for involving us in this excellent research project!
Aug 18 The first research paper of Zhaohang Zhang on "Programmable shape-morphing of rose-shaped mechanical metamaterials" is published in the APL Materials (link). Very well done, Zhaohang, congratulations!
June 21 Dr. Krushynska gave a talk on the pros and cons of non-periodicity in phononics and metamaterials at the Artic Quasiperiodic Workshop 2022 held on June 20-23 at the Lulea University of Technology in Lulea, Sweden
May 31 Metamechanics group presents its research activities at the Innovation Market of the NWO Teknowlogy 2022 Festival (Innovation market | TEKNOWLOGY). Come to The Fabrique in Maarsen and check our stands!
May 29 Our group got its own YouTube channel (MetaMechanics). Subscribe and get updates about new videos on metamaterials!
May 27 Jorn-Ids Heins will continue working with us as a Ph.D. student affiliated at UMCG and (co-)supervised by dr. Joep Kraeima and Prof. dr. Max Witjes. Excellent news! Good luck with your research, Jorn-Ids!
May 25 Diego Guzman has joined our group as a Ph.D. student to work on metamaterials application to soft robotics and sensor technologies. Welcome, Diego, and good luck with your research!
May 24 Prof. Petra Rudolf (ZIAM, University of Groningen) and dr. A. Krushynska acted as role models in speed dates organized by VHTO for girls of the Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa Lyceum in Appingedam (in the north of the Groningen region). Hopefully, this type of events will help to attract more females to study physical sciences.
May 16 Research Topic "Women in Science: Physical Acoustics and Ultrasonics" of the 2022 Frontiers in Physics (Nature Publication Group) is open for submissions (link). Looking forward to editing your manuscripts! Please note: to be considered for this collection, the lead and/or corresponding author should be a woman.
May 4 Our paper on application of machine learning techniques to design metamaterial-type artificial wings with controllable lift has been published online in the Materials & Design journal (link). Congratulations to all co-authors!
April 25-27 The EUROMECH Colloquium "Emerging topics in acoustic and mechanical metamaterials" is running in the beautiful Benicassim at the seaside of Spain. This is one of the first onsite meetings on metamaterials after the COVID pandemic. Thank you so much to every participant for coming and presenting recent research results! The related overview paper will be coming soon.
April 4-5 Very inspiring Mi2 conference at NH Noordwijk Conference Center with a special session on Metamaterials.
March 11 Jorn-Ids Heins has successfully defended his M.Sc. research thesis on the application of metamaterials to design patient specific mandibular implants at UMCG. Very well done, Jorn-Ids! Looking forward to continue working with you on a similar topic in future!

News 2021

December 9 Christiaan van der Last successfully presented the final results of his design project. Well done, Christiaan! Good luck with your further endeavor!
December 9 Our paper on metamaterial-type artificial wings with controllable flight characteristics has been accepted for publication by the journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics! Congratulations to all co-authors!
November 11 Graduation Ceremony of the first bunch of Mechanical Engineering MSc Students. Emre Ozer presented the results of his MSc research project. Congratulations, Emre, on your well-deserved MSc degree!
November 5 Anastasiia Krushynska gave a talk at the IMECE 2021, online edition
November 2 Anastasiia Krushynska chaired a session on Metamaterials at the 24th Engineering Mechanics Symposium.
November 2 Nitesh Anerao gave a presentation on the 'Experimental probing of acoustic metamaterials' at the Metamaterials Workshop of the 24th EM symposium. For more details: Click here
October 27 Nitesh Anerao and Zhaohang Zhang attended the 24th Engineering Mechanics Symposium 2021 and participated in the poster competition.
September 25 Nitesh Anerao presented his work at the Metamaterials'21 conference and attended the doctoral school on 'Emerging concepts and anomalies in light scattering'.
September 20 Nitesh Anerao has received an ONR/NSF student grant to attend the Metamaterials' 2021 congress and Euprometa doctoral School.
August 27 Nitesh Anerao attended the Topological Matter School 2021 organized by DipC/UPV EHU/CRC183 from 16th-27th August.
August 19 Dr. Krushynska gave an invited talk at the online META 2021 conference. The recording will be available soon.

July 10 Adeeb K. H. Saeed has started his internship project on wave propagation in particle assemblies. Welcome, Adeeb, and best of luck with your studies!

July 9 Nitesh Anerao attended a 5-day Summer school on 'Computational Acoustics' organized by EAA/UKAN. Click here. Notable sessions from Prof. Trevor Cox and Prof. Vicente Cutanda Henriquez.

July 7 Zhaohang Zhang attended a 3-day Summer school combining Technical and Medical Science organized by LUMC/TU Delft/interactie. Click here.

July 7 Mechanical Engineering MSc. student Emre Özer has successfully defended his research project "Energy harvesting by means of acoustic metamaterials." Very well done, Emre!

July 6 MSc. student Gerwin Numan has defended his intership project on metamaterial-based sawbones. Congratulations with the nice results and good luck in future studies!

June 28 The first CMME group outing was very successful and enjoyable.

May 3 The paper "Dissipative dynamics of polymer phononic materials" has been accepted for publication by the Advanced Functional Materials journal. Many congratulations to all the co-authors. The link to the paper is here.

April 28 The paper "Arbitrary-curved waveguiding and broadband attenuation in additively manufactured phononic lattice phononic media" is published by the Materials & Design journal. Find the paper here.

April 12 The official start of the internship of Gerwin Numan on applications of metamaterials to the sawbones designs. Welcome, Gerwin, and best of luck with your project!

April 11 Dr. Krushynska's role-model STEM mini-profile has been published www.ktsinglemolecule.com/blog/2021/4/11/mini-profiles-of-stem-role-models-12 and tweeted https://twitter.com/BiophysK/status/1381277641341296640. The deepest acknowledgment for this goes to Dr. Kasia Tych.
April 6 Our paper "Arbitrary-curved waveguiding and broadband attenuation in additively manufactured lattice phononic media" has been accepted for publication by the Elsevier journal Materials & Designs. Congratulations to all the co-authors and special thank you to Dr. Thomas Pijper who manufactured the samples.
March 22 The paper "Vibro-acoustic analysis of auxetic hexagonal and anti-tetrachiral stepped cantilever beams" in collaboration with Prof. M. Ranjbar has been presented at the SPIE-conference "Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological systems XV" by a talented researcher Saman Farhangdoust. The full text can be found here: Vibro-acoustic analysis of auxetic hexagonal and anti-tetrachiral stepped cantilever beams (spiedigitallibrary.org)
February 11 I will be giving a talk at the SPRINT Symposium at the UMCG at Groningen. Looking forward to introducing the metamaterial field to medical doctors.
January 18 Introduction of our group to the Dutch Physics Community at Physics@Veldhoven 2021. The link to the recorded talk is here. It was an excellent event organized at a very high level. Looking forward to attending it live the next year!

News 2020

December 24 My talk on Wave attenuation and waveguiding in 3D phononic media has been distinguished as the best oral presentation at MSAM 2020! Thank you so much for the votes and the conference organizers for the award! Hope to see you in a year in Macau! More details here.
December 1 Nitesh Anerao got the Best Presenter Award from our group. Well deserved! Congratulations!
November 15 Here is the link to my talk at the online MSAM 2020 conference: http://www.academicconf.com/Video/Details?paperId=32015 Feel free to vote!
October 2 The paper "A design strategy to match the band gap of periodic and aperiodic metamaterials" has been published in Scientific Reports: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-73299-3
September 5 A CSC-funded PhD student Bing Han from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China will join our group as a visiting Ph.D. at the beginning of 2021. Bing, looking forward to welcoming you to Groningen!
September 2 Our collaborative paper "A design strategy to match the bandgap of periodic and aperiodic metamaterials" has been accepted for publication by Scientific Reports! Congratulations to all co-authors!
September 1 New Academic Year has started. Welcome back to UG! (click the link)
July 7 Zhaohang Zhang has got a CSC scholarship and will join our group as a Ph.D. student in November 2020. Well done, Zhaohang! Looking forward to greeting you in Groningen!
July 2 Oliver Wilkins successfully defended his B.Sc. thesis on acoustic metamaterials at an online symposium of ZIAM. Great job, Oliver, congratulations! Many thanks to Prof. E. van der Giessen for leading the session.
June 2 Nitesh Anerao has got a scholarship for one of the FSE Engineering Ph.D. positions and will join our group in September. Congratulations, Nitesh! Looking forward to greeting you in Groningen!
May 8 The patent application is filed and submitted for evaluation.
April 14 Oliver Wilkins has started his B.Sc. research project on acoustic metamaterials. Welcome to the group, Oliver, and good luck!
March 13 COVID-19 lockdown has been started.
March 2 We have got an NWO grant to collaborate with Prof. M. Ranjbar on vibroacoustic problems! Mostafa, congratulations, and looking forward to meeting you soon!
March 1 The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science approved fellowships for bursary students at FSE. Looking forward to going through inspiring proposals from prospective Ph.D. students. If you are interested, have a look at the advertisement on the main page and contact me directly.
January 28 Laura successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis entitled "Acoustic metamaterials with controllable transmission: from complete sound attenuation to a transparent state" at Vonckenzaal of ENTEG. Well done, Laura!
January 9 The research topic "Rising Star 2020" from "Frontiers in Materials" is officially online (link). Such a nice opportunity to showcase internationally recognized young researchers! I am looking forward to sending invitations.

News 2019

December 10-11 the Materials Meeting 2019 at Noordwijkerpoort was a very successful event! I was happy to be on board and looking forward to being there in a year!
December 1 I am very excited to start serving as an associate editor for Part C: Journal of the Mechanical Engineering Science! Warmest appreciation goes to Sergio De Rosa and John Chew for their strong and continuous support!
October 31 Mónica Fidalgo is accepted as a Ph.D. student in our group. Congratulations, Mónica! Looking forward to greeting you in Groningen soon!
October 15 Prof. dr. Federico Bosia from the University of Turin (Turin, Italy), visiting our group, gives a lecture on "The role of structure in the emergence of optimized properties in biological and artificial materials " in the framework of the ENTEG Guest Lectures. Thank you, Federico, for an inspiring talk!
October 1 Volodymyr Semkiv from the Kyiv National University (Kyiv, Ukraine) joins the group as a visiting M.Sc. student with the financial support from the ENTEG. Welcome, Volodymyr!
September 17 The collaboration paper on "Soft magnetoactive laminates: large deformations, transverse elastic waves and band gaps tunability by a magnetic field" is published online. Congratulations to all the authors! Follow this link to download the paper (link).
September 1 Laura Enrique from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) joins the group as an Erasmus Master student. Welcome Laura!
August 26 Tamoor Mughal from the University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands) joins the group as a guest researcher with financial support from the ENTEG. Welcome, Tamoor!
August 13 The paper "Between science and art: thin sound absorbers inspired by Slavic ornaments" is published (link).
July 24 The co-authored conference paper "Mechanical modeling of the bandgap response of tensegrity metamaterials " has been published in AIP Conference proceedings (link).
July 15 Start of the summer holidays.
July 10 My paper "Between science and art: thin sound absorbers inspired by Slavic ornaments" has been accepted for publication by a special collection Rising Stars of the journal Frontiers in Materials. Online publication will appear very soon! The Comsol files used for simulations can be found by following this link: https://dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:10411/L5G6K0
July 2 The paper "Proof-of-concept a frequency-preserving and time-invariant metamaterial-based nonlinear acoustic diode" has been published online by Scientific Reports! Congratulations to all the co-authors! Use this link https://rdcu.be/bIkp5 to have full access to it.
June 17 Talk at InterNoise 2019 in Madrid, Spain (link). The Young Professionals Workshop was wonderful and very informative! Thank you for my first "acoustic" award and the possibility to attend this fantastic scientific event!
June 7 Invited talk at Phononics 2019: 5th International Conference on Phononic Crystals/Metamaterials, Phonon Transport, Topological Phononics in Tucson, Arizona (link)! The hottest, high-level, and perfectly organized event! Thank you very much to the organizers and all the participants! Wonderful experience!
May 29 Invited talk at the 2nd International Conference on Material Strength and Applied Mechanics (MSAM 2019) in Kyiv, Ukraine (link). It was a great pleasure to meet everyone, and especially Dr. Olga Kresse and Prof. Mikhail Itskov!
May 5 Dr. Krushynska is awarded an I-INCE Young Professional Congress Attendance Grants (YP Grants) from INTER-NOISE 2019. Looking forward to participating in the Young Professionals Workshop upcoming June!
May 1 Dr. Krushynska has started as an assistant professor at the CMME group (Computational Mechanics and Materials Engineering) at ENTEG, University of Groningen!
March 3-9 Participated in the mini-workshop "Mathematical aspects of nonlinear wave propagation in solid mechanics" organized by MFO in Oberwolfach and present an invited lecture on modeling of nonlinear acoustic metamaterials.
February 18-19 An invited seminar on thin sound absorbers with space-coiling and coupled resonators at the Department of Physics, University of Torino in Italy.
January 29 The paper "Design and experimental investigation of V-folded beams with acoustic black hole indentations" has been published online in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America! The article can be accessed via the link.
January 21 Participated in the debate on challenges and opportunities in open science & open data "How researchers & publishers can collaborate in the move towards Open Science".
January 7 The paper "Design and experimental investigation of V-folded beams with acoustic black hole indentations" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters! Congratulations to all the co-authors!
January 2 Received an EWM travel grant for giving an invited talk at the mini-workshop in Oberwolfach, Germany.

News 2018

November 21 The paper "Tuning frequency band gaps of tensegrity mass-spring chains with local and global prestress" is published in the International Journal of Solids and Structures. It is available for free download for 50 days by this link.
November 13 The paper "Hybrid metamaterials combining pentamode lattices and phononic plates" is published in Applied Physics Letters. It is available for free download until November 27 by this link.
October 27 Our paper "Hybrid metamaterials combining pentamode lattices and phononic plates" is accepted for publication in Applied Physics Letters! Congratulations to all the co-authors!
October 3 An open lecture entitled "Wave dynamics and vibrations: theory and applications" at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
September 19 The Editorial "Advances in Mechanical Metamaterials" is published in Frontiers in Materials, section Mechanics of Materials (link).
September 11 Dr. Krushynska presented an invited talk "Dissipative phononic metamaterials: when and how the viscoelasticity matters" at 28th International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials held on 10-12 September 2018 in Glasgow, Scotland. Thank you to Dr. E. Oterkus and Dr. S. Oterkus for all their effort in organizing this nice event!
August 28 The editorial "Advances in mechanical metamaterials" has been accepted for publication in the journal Frontiers in Materials. Thanks to all the co-authors for their contribution.
August 28 I presented an oral talk "Tunable extremely wide low-frequency band gaps in accordion-like metamaterials" at the 12th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena held on 27 August - 1 September 2018 in Espoo, Finland. Special thanks to the Organizing Committee for the wonderful dinner devoted to 50th anniversary of the famous Veselago paper. It was very inspiring!
August 21 Dr. Krushynska presented an invited talk "The role of viscoelasticity on wave propagation in phononic metamaterials" at the International Conference on Advanced Structural and Functional Materials 2018 held on 20-24 August 2018 in Krakow, Poland. Many thanks to Prof. CC Tang for the excellent organization and invitation!
July 13 The paper "Accordion-like metamaterials with tunable ultra-wide low-frequency band gaps" has been accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics! Congratulations to all co-authors! (link to the paper)
July 6 The paper "Tuning frequency band gaps of tensegrity mass-spring chains with local and global prestress" has been accepted for publication by International Journal of Solids and Structures. Congratulations to all the co-authors!
July 4 I will give a talk on dissipative phononic structures at the 10th European Solid Mechanics Conference to be held in Bologna, Italy (link). Everyone interested is warmly welcomed!
June 22 This year I am serving as a remote evaluator for the REA-FET-OPEN-2018 call for the European Commission! Looking forward to receiving many fascinating proposals!
June 14 I have got a researcher grant to attend the Metamaterial Congress 2018 in Espoo, Findland. My deepest appreciation to the Congress Organizers!
June 5 New version of the cite has been launched.
May 30 Since now I serve as a Review Editor for Mechanics of Materials at the journal Frontiers in Materials (link).
February 1 My paper "Labyrinthine acoustic metamaterials with space-coiling channels for low-frequency sound control" has been accepted for publication in the special issue of Acta Acustica united with Acustica (pdf).
January 30 The paper "Tuning frequency band gaps of tensegrity metamaterials with local and global prestress" has been submitted. Thanks a lot for all the co-authors for collaboration and fingers crossed!
January 24 My STSM grant application has been funded!

News 2017

December 8 A lecture on my recent research activities in the field of metamaterials at the Technische Facultaet of Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet in Kiel, Germany. Contact me if interested to attend.
November 8-9 My talk on "Structure-independent viscoelasticity of damped phononic materials" at Track 1 (Acoustic, Vibration, and Phononics) at IMECE 2017 to be held in Tampa, U.S.A. Everyone interested is warmly welcome!
October 17 The press-release by Phys.Org on the paper "Spider web-structured labyrinthine acoustic metamaterials for low-frequency sound control" (link). Lisa Zyga, thank you for continuing the collaboration!
October 3 The paper "Spider web-structured labyrinthine acoustic metamaterials for low-frequency sound control" is published as an open-access paper in the New Journal of Physics (link). Thanks to all the co-authors for their contribution.
September 21 The paper "The attenuation performance of locally resonant acoustic metamaterials based on generalized viscoelastic modelling" of a bright young Ph.D. student, Miroslawa Lewinska, has been finally published with full bibliographic details. Congratulations on the publication, Mirka!
September 14-15 Dr. Krushynska participated in the DENORMS sandpit workshop "New approaches to the design of noise-reducing materials and structures", in Novi Sad, Serbia (link). Many thanks to the organizers of this nice event and my great team composed of Dr. Claus Claeys from the University of Leuven, Belgium, and Dr. Gwenael Hannena!
September 7 An invited seminar on viscoelastic phononic structures in the group of Prof. F. Fraternali at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Salerno, Italy. Many thanks to Prof. D. Bigoni for useful comments!
August 29 An invited talk of Dr. Krushynska "Dissipative elastic metamaterials" at the Metamaterials Congress 2017 held in Marseille, France (link). Everyone is warmly welcome!
August 28 - September 2 Talks at the Metamaterials Congress 2017 held in Marseille, France (link to the conference web-cite):
- - "Large scale elastic metamaterials for earthquake protection" presented by Dr. F. Bosia
  - "Hierarchical bio-inspired dissipative metamaterials for low-frequency sound attenuation" presented by Dr. F. Bosia
  - "Fractal and spider-web inspired labyrinthine acoustic metamaterials" delivered by Dr. A. Krushynska. Everyone is warmly welcome!
August 5 The paper "The attenuation performance of locally resonant acoustic metamaterials based on generalized viscoelastic modelling" written in collaboration with colleagues from Eindhoven University of Technology has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Solids and Structures. Congratulations!
August 3 The paper "Spider web-structured labyrinthine acoustic metamaterials for low-frequency sound control" has been accepted for publication in the New Journal of Physics as a Special Issue Article. Congratulations to the co-authors!
July 18 An upcoming invited seminar "Phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials: working principles and applications" to be held at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Everyone is welcome!
June 8 My invited talk at the 4ht international conference on phononic crystals/metamaterials, phonon transport/coupling and topological phonons in Changsha, China (link)
May 15 My talk at the 3rd workshop on seismic metamaterials in Bologna, Italy (link)
April 25 The paper "Proof of concept for an ultrasensitive technique to detect and localize sources of elastic nonlinearity using phononic crystals" has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters! Congratulations to all the co-authors!