2023-2027
Additively manufactured polymer metamaterials
Polymeric parts constitute nowadays about 80% of all additively manufactured solutions in multiple industrial sectors, and similar statistics applies to metamaterials. Their practical use is however complicated by insufficient knowledge about material-structure interplay. This project aims at filling in this gap by studying the properties of additively manufactured polymers and elastic metamaterials made of them.
Part 1.
Additively manufactured polymers have been widely used for producing elastic metamaterials. The viscoelastic behavior of these polymers at ultrasonic frequencies remains, however, poorly studied. This study reports a protocol to estimate the viscoelastic properties of 3D-printed polymers and show how to use them to analyze the metamaterial dynamics.
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Curious to know more? Read this paper or watch the movie.​
Sidharth Beniwal
I am passionate about developing phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials, additive manufacturing, and polymer characterization.
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-- Ph.D. student at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Our team
Ranjita Bose
My work focuses on studying the mechanism of self-healing and interfacial adhesion of polymers with supramolecular interactions.
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-- Adjunct Professor at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Anastasiia Krushynska
Phononic crystals is my favorite research field and key research expertise. In this project, I apply my knowledge in modelling wave dynamics.
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-- Adjunct Professor at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands
