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Material-architecture-manufacture integrated strategy for piezoelectric metamaterials with mechanical protection and self-powered sensing.

Created on 26 Sep 2026

Authors

Zhicheng Wang, Xiaozhou Xin, Jingfei Wang, Liwu Liu, Yanju Liu, Jinsong Leng

Published in

Science advances. Volume 12. Issue 39. Pages eaeg1744. Sep 25, 2026. Epub Sep 25, 2026.

Abstract

The increasingly complex tasks of intelligent equipment have shifted the demand for structural materials from mere lightweight protection to multifunction integration, i.e., high recoverable energy absorption and accurate monitoring. Herein, we presented a material-architecture-manufacture integrated strategy for piezoelectric metamaterials to simultaneously achieve mechanical protection and self-powered sensing. Specifically, an intercalation heterostructure of silane-modified barium titanate (K-BTO)/MXene was constructed to improve the interfacial polarization effect, and an innovative electric field-assisted 4D printing technology could effectively induce the in situ poling of K-BTO. Furthermore, the Kagome lattice-inspired metamaterial (k-CAH) exhibited superior specific energy absorption (0.18 joules per gram), resulting from compression-bend-torsion coordination and multidirection coupling mechanisms. The multimode coupling deformation and local strain amplification mechanism, induced by the geometry design, substantially improved output capacities through activating various piezoelectric response modes at low frequency. With the material-architecture-manufacture synergy, [Formula: see text] reached up to 1.712 volt-meters per newton. The developed piezoelectric metamaterial system exhibited accurate self-powered sensing of real-time impact and high-efficiency energy harvesting under microvibration conditions, promising for the next-generation smart structural materials.

PMID:
42789698
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 26 Sep 2026.

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