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Mechanical Metamaterials acquire their peculiar functionality by their structure.

Here I outline what sort of new functionalities can be made and can be dreamed about, and the crucial role that 3D printing and AM plays for the development of such materials

Martin van Hecke got his PhD in physics in 1996, and was appointed as professor of physics in 2008 at Leiden university. Since 2012 his group is working on mechanical metamaterials, functional materials where structure, not composition, is key. In 2014 he was appointed as group-leader at AMOLF research institute in Amsterdam, and he now divides his time between Leiden and Amsterdam.

Amolf & Leiden Institute of Physics FOM Institute AMOLF is one of the research laboratories of the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) located in Science Park Amsterdam. LION is the physics department of the university of Leiden.