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Additive Manufacturing of Polymer Metamaterials for Vibration Isolation: A Review

Jiefei Huang¹, Hao Zhou¹, Mengying Chen¹, Lei Yang^1,2,*

1 School of Transportation and Logistics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China
2 State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

* Corresponding Author: Lei Yang. Email:

Journal of Polymer Materials 2025, 42(2), 307-338. https://doi.org/10.32604/jpm.2025.062620

Received 23 December 2024; Accepted 03 April 2025; Issue published 14 July 2025

Abstract

Vibration isolation is vital in engineering machinery, as it not only seriously affects the service life of machine components but also reduces the operating efficiency. Recently, metamaterials have been proposed for customized vibration-isolation needs through various functional designs. As a synthetic material, polymer materials have the advantages of good elasticity, low density, high specific strength, good corrosion resistance and easy processing, making it an ideal raw material for vibration-isolation metamaterials. At the same time, the rapid development of additive manufacturing (AM) provides a feasible method for preparing polymeric vibration-isolation metamaterials with complex structures. In this paper, we systematically analyze the vibration-isolation mechanism of metamaterials, review the applications of metamaterials in vibration isolation and the research on polymer metamaterials, and survey the AM process methods for polymer metamaterials. Finally, the prospects and directions for the development of polymer vibration-isolation metamaterials are envisioned, providing new ideas for further research on polymer metamaterials in the field of vibration isolation.

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