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Paul S., Overvelde J.T.B., Hochhalter J., & Wang, P.
Effects of void geometry on two-dimensional monolithic porous phononic crystals
Applied Physics Letters, 2024; 124:212201.
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Zhang P., Liu, Y., Zhang K., Wu Y., Chen F., Chen Y., Wang, P., & Zhu, X.
Observation of maxon-like ultrasound in elastic metabeam Algorithm
APL (Applied Physics Letter) Materials, 2024; 12:031110
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Liu, Y., Liu, J., Raney, J.R. and Wang, P.
Quantum computing for solid mechanics and structural engineering–A demonstration with Variational Quantum Eigensolver.
Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2024; 67:102117.
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Atreya, N., Wang, P., & Zhu, X.
Characterizing Mechanical Properties of Layered Engineered Wood Using Guided Waves and Genetic Algorithm
Sensors, 2023; 23:9184
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Kazemi, A., Deshmukh, K. J., Chen, F., Liu, Y., Deng, B., Fu, H. C., & Wang, P.
Drawing Dispersion Curves: Band Structure Customization via Nonlocal Phononic Crystals
Physical Review Letters, 2023; 131:176101
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News Release: A New Path to Designer Materials - Any Dispersion Relation You Want
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Liu, S., Chen, F., Yang, T., Parker, R. G., Wang, P., & Yang, T.
Experimental Observation of Negative Rotational Inertia
Applied Physics Letters, 2023; 123:121701
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Hasan, M. N., Greenwood, T. E., Parker, R. G., Kong, Y. L., and Wang, P.
Fractal Patterns in the Parameter Space of Bi-stable Duffing Oscillator
Physical Review E, 2023; 108:L022201
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Zhao, Z., Liu Y., and Wang, P.
Computational Design of Bio-inspired Mechanical Metamaterials Based on Lipidic Cubic Phases
JOM (The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society), 2023; 75:2126
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Jamil, F, Chen, F, Deng, B, Parker, R G and Wang, P
Inerter-based Elastic Metamaterials for Band Gap at Extremely Low Frequency
Extreme Mechanics Letters. 2022; 56:101847.
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Zhang P, Wang P
Boundary Reflections of Rolling Waves in Cubic Anisotropic Material
Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering. 2021; 7:704192.
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Deng B, Wang P, Tournat V, Bertoldi K
Nonlinear transition waves in free-standing bistable chains
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2020; 136:103661
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Deng B, Zhang Y, He Q, Tournat V, Wang P, Bertoldi K
Propagation of elastic solitons in chains of pre-deformed beams
New Journal of Physics. 2019; 21 :073008.
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Deng B, Tournat V, Wang P, Bertoldi K
Anomalous Collisions of Elastic Vector Solitons in Mechanical Metamaterials
Physical Review Letters. 2019;122 :044101.
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Deng B, Wang P, He Q, Tournat V, Bertoldi K
Metamaterials with amplitude gaps for elasticsolitons
Nature Communications. 2018;9 :3410
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Wadhwa N, Chen JG, Sellon JB, Wei D, Rubinstein M, Ghaffari R, Freeman DM, Büyüköztürk O, Wang P, Sun S, Kang SH, Bertoldi K, Durand F, Freeman WT
Motion microscopy for visualizing and quantifying small motions
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2017.
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Wang P, Zheng Y, Fernandes MC, Sun Y, Xu K, Sun S, Kang SH, Tournat V, Bertoldi K
Harnessing Geometric Frustration to Form Band Gaps in Acoustic Networks
Physical Review Letters. 2017;118 (8) :084302.
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Javid F, Wang P, Shanian A, Bertoldi K
Architected Materials with Ultra-Low Porosity for Vibration Control
Advanced Materials. 2016; 28(28): 5943.
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Babaee S, Viard N, Wang P, Fang NX, Bertoldi K
Harnessing Deformation to Switch On and Off the Propagation of Sound
Advanced Materials. 2016;8 :1631-1635.
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Babaee S, Shahsavari AS, Wang P, Picu RC, Bertoldi K
Wave propagation in cross-linked random fiber networks
Applied Physics Letters. 2015;107 :211904.
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Lim QJ, Wang P, Koh SJA, Khoo EH, Bertoldi K
Wave propagation in fractal-inspired self-similar beam lattices
Applied Physics Letters. 2015;107 :221911.
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Wang P, Lu L, Bertoldi K
Topological Phononic Crystals with One-Way Elastic Edge Waves
Physical Review Letters. 2015;115 :104302.
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Babaee S, Wang P, Bertoldi K
Three-dimensional adaptive soft phononic crystals
Journal of Applied Physics. 2015;117 :244903
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Shan S, Kang SH, Raney J, Wang P, Fang L, Candido F, Lewis J, Bertoldi K
Multistable Architected Materials for Trapping Elastic Strain Energy
Advanced Materials. 2015;27 (29) :4296.
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Shim J, Wang P, Bertoldi K
Harnessing instability-induced pattern transformation to design tunable phononic crystals
International Journal of Solids and Structures. 2015;58 :52-61.
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Wang P, Casadei F, Kang SH, Bertoldi K
Locally resonant band gaps in periodic beam lattices by tuning connectivity
Physical Review B. 2015;91 :020103(R).
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Wang P, Casadei F, Shan S, Weaver JC, Bertoldi K
Harnessing Buckling to Design Tunable Locally Resonant Acoustic Metamaterials
Physical Review Letters. 2014;113 :014301.
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Shan S, Kang SH, Wang P, Qu C, Shian S, Chen ER, Bertoldi K
Harnessing Multiple Folding Mechanisms in Soft Periodic Structures for Tunable Control of Elastic Waves
Advanced Functional Materials. 2014;24 (31) :4935.
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Wang P, Shim J, Bertoldi K
Effects of Geometric and Material Non-linearities on the Tunable Response of Phononic Crystals
Physical Review B. 2013;88 :014304.
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