Acoustics articles within Nature

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  • Article |

    An acoustic topological gallery insulator constructed from sonic crystals made of thermoplastic rods decorated with carbon nanotube films enables the out-coupling of amplified and focused sound at audible frequencies.

    • Bolun Hu
    • , Zhiwang Zhang
    •  & Johan Christensen
  • Letter |

    A two-dimensional phononic quadrupole topological insulator is demonstrated experimentally using mechanical metamaterials, which has both the one-dimensional edge states and the zero-dimensional corner states predicted by theory.

    • Marc Serra-Garcia
    • , Valerio Peri
    •  & Sebastian D. Huber
  • Letter |

    Holograms for sound waves, encoded in a 3D printed plate, are used to shape sound fields that can be used for the contactless manipulation of objects.

    • Kai Melde
    • , Andrew G. Mark
    •  & Peer Fischer
  • Letter |

    A negative refractive index, a property that does not exist in natural materials, can be produced in so-called metamaterials by combining two building blocks; here it is shown that it is possible to design and fabricate a metamaterial with a negative refractive index that consists of only one type of building block by taking advantage of its crystalline structure, and this approach is demonstrated through an acoustic superlens.

    • Nadège Kaina
    • , Fabrice Lemoult
    •  & Geoffroy Lerosey