News 2021

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

  • April 11 My 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. My deepest acknowledgement 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 the 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 in 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 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 PhD at the beginning of 2021. Bing, looking forward to welcoming you in Groningen!

  • September 2 Our collaborative paper "A design strategy to match the band gap 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)

  • August 27 Rohini Prakash has joint the group to perform micromechanical characterization of 3D-printed materials for her MSc research project. Welcome, Rohini, and best of luck!

  • July 7 Zhaohang Zhang has got a CSC-scholarship and will join our group as a PhD 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 PhD 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 meet 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 PhD 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 be 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 go to Sergio De Rosa and John Chew for their strong and continuous support!

  • October 31 Mónica Fidalgo is accepted as a PhD 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 the 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 a 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 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 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 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-indepedent viscoelasticity of damped phononic materials" at the 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 collaboration!

  • October 3 The paper "Spider web-structured labyrinthine acoustic metamaterials for low-frequency sound control" is published as open-access paper in 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 with the publication, Mirka!

  • September 14-15 I participated in the DENORMS sandpit workshop "New approaches to design of noise reducing materials and structures", in Novi Sad, Serbia (link). Many thanks to organizers of this nice event and my great team composed of Dr. Claus Claeys from 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 "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 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 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!

  • April 23 The cite is launched.