Nature, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10804-0
Elastic instabilities in mechanical metamaterials can be harnessed to programme fracture behaviour, transforming instability from a failure mechanism into a design principle that increases fracture energy by up to tenfold.Programming fracture resistance in metamaterials via elastic instabilities
Nature, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10804-0Elastic instabilities in mechanical metamaterials can be harnessed to programme fracture behaviour, transforming instability from a failure mechanism into a design p…