Design of Acoustic Metamaterials Based on Liquid Crystal Skyrmions

Method for designing acoustic metamaterials based on liquid crystal skyrmions, comprising:

• designing an acoustic metamaterial structure based on the self-assembly of liquid crystal structures for skyrmion-like structures for use for acoustic applications comprising at least one of sound focusing, sound attenuation, elastic/acoustic energy harvesting, and acoustic cloaking;
• using simulated nanoscale disclination networks for producing data for computationally simulating the designed acoustic metamaterial structure at a nanostructure level;
• converting the produced data to a 3D printer-readable file;
• scaling the 3D printer-readable file to a desired structure size;
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• 3D printing the skyrmion-like acoustic metamaterials structures.