Roadmap on metamaterial theory, modelling and design
Abstract This Roadmap surveys the diversity of different approaches for characterising, modelling and designing metamaterials. It contains articles covering the wide range of physical settings in which metamaterials have been realised, from acoustics and electromagnetics to water waves and mechanical systems. In doing so, we highlight synergies between the many different physical domains and identify commonality between the main challenges. The articles also survey a variety of different strategies and philosophies, from analytic methods such as classical homogenisation to numerical optimisation and data-driven approaches. We highlight how the challenging and many-degree-of-freedom nature of metamaterial design problems call for techniques to be used in partnership, such that physical modelling and intuition can be combined with the computational might of modern optimisation and machine learning to facilitate future breakthroughs in the field.
Authors
- Anastasiia O. Krushynska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3259-2592)
- Andrea Alù (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4297-5274)
- Dilaksan Thillaithevan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1213-7621)
- Daniel Torrent (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7092-7360)
- J. B. Pendry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3839-8547)
- Leo de Waal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0487-3848)
- Olly Duncan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9503-1464)
- Ping Sheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9824-0031)
- G. J. Conduit (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3807-6361)
- Richard V. Craster (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9799-9639)
- Marcelo A. Dias (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1668-0501)
- S. J. Berry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5528-2218)
- Marc Martí-Sabaté (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7646-0546)
- Anastasia V. Kisil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7652-5880)
- Robert Hewson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7758-0574)
- V. P. Smyshlyaev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5209-2272)
- Bryn Davies (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8108-2316)
- Mohammad Javad Mirzaali (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5349-6922)
- D. J. Colquitt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5637-1626)
- Łukasz Kaczmarczyk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8468-5435)
- Elena Cherkaev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5682-5453)
- Stefan Szyniszewski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7862-8506)
- Sébastien Guenneau (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5924-622X)
- James R Capers
- K. H. Madine (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6135-5495)
- Marie Touboul (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4052-0994)
- Shane Cooper
- S. A. R. Horsley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7242-7941)
- Z. Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4215-6604)
- Luke G. Bennetts (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9386-7882)
- Matthew Santer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0708-2251)
- AMIR ABBAS ZADPOOR (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3234-2112)
- Niklas Wellander (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4211-8977)
- Fabrizio Scarpa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5470-4834)
- Ryan Murphy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4591-8400)
- Jacob Earnshaw
- I. V. Kamotski
- Nicholas Syrotiuk
Institutions
- Universitat Jaume I (ES)
- Manchester Metropolitan University (GB)
- The Graduate Center, CUNY (US)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- University of Groningen (NL)
- Qinetiq (United Kingdom) (GB)
- City University of New York (US)
- Durham University (GB)
- Luleå University of Technology (SE)
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HK)
- University of Utah (US)
- University of Exeter (GB)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- University of Warwick (GB)
- Clinical & Biomedical Computing (United Kingdom) (GB)
- National Composites Centre (GB)
- CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (US)
- Institute for Advanced Study (DE)
- Merseytravel (GB)
- University College London (GB)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- University of Glasgow (GB)
- University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Delft University of Technology (NL)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Physics D Applied Physics
- Published
- 2025-04-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/adc271
- Citations
- 10
- Primary Topic
- Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.27
Funders
- U.S. Department of Defense
- Simons Foundation
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- UK Research and Innovation
- QinetiQ
- Leverhulme Trust
- Royal Society
- European Commission
- China Scholarship Council
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Australian Research Council
- European Regional Development Fund
- HORIZON EUROPE European Innovation Council