Research Progress and Development Trends of Acoustic Metamaterials

Molecules. 2021 Jun 30;26(13):4018. doi: 10.3390/molecules26134018.

Abstract

Acoustic metamaterials are materials with artificially designed structures, which have characteristics that surpass the behavior of natural materials, such as negative refraction, anomalous Doppler effect, plane focusing, etc. This article mainly introduces and summarizes the related research progress of acoustic metamaterials in the past two decades, focusing on meta-atomic acoustic metamaterials, metamolecular acoustic metamaterials, meta-atomic clusters and metamolecule cluster acoustic metamaterials. Finally, the research overview and development trend of acoustic metasurfaces are briefly introduced.

Keywords: acoustic metamaterials; acoustic metasurface; functional materials; meta-atom; metamolecule.

Publication types

  • Review