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Oct 25 2020

All the PhonoMeta kids happy now, daddy can relax! 🥴

Sep 15 2020

The acoustic analogy of a Majorana bound state turned out to be a really good idea! In November last year we got this great cover story in Phys. Rev. Lett. Now, we showed that its binding mechanism constitutes a topological pump, which Wiley’s Advanced Quantum Technology journal selected as the September issue cover story! Great job Penglin! 👊

July 22 2020

Here we have a great paper published today in the prestigious journal Adv. Funct. Mater. with impact factor 16.8 OMG! Usually, if you have more than 30 equations in your paper, you should consider a more specialized and less general journal, but we tried!
The first author is a special one! In 2005 for my M.Sc thesis he suggested me to look into phononic crystals! I was like, fono whaaat?? And the last author has only an H-index of 245!! 😂😂😂

June 03 2020

Liyang cracking the top 4 of the Conex-grant in association with the EU’s Horizon2020 research and innovation program. Congrats!

March 03 2020

The PhonoMeta gang at our Wall of Fame of recent cover stories! Let’s make some new ones in 2020! 🤠👊

Jan 22 2020

Liyang, welcome to the PhonoMeta gang! Let’s have some fun with sonic semimetals👊

Dec 03 2019

Showing ultra-deep subwavelength and topologically confined sound that even made it the cover story in Advanced Materials!

Nov 07 2019

Penglin’s first paper in the PhonoMeta team is not only a Phys. Rev. Lett but it’s a COVER STORY too!! Congratulations!

Oct 22 2019

Pablo in the house! This means big things are about to go down! Wait and see! 🧐

Oct 12 2019

Crazeeey October my friends! Will November be the same? Thanks guys for your HARD work! Off to the next challenges! 👊😎

Oct 09 2019

Chairwoman Maria keeping the show moving at the SAM 2019: Symposium on Acoustic Metamaterials!

Aug 19 2019

Some strong results on invisibility for acoustic waves based on PT symmetry.
Bin Liang, thanks for this fruitful collaboration. Here’s the paper.

July 13 2019

Having a blast with the PhonoMeta team eating Chinese lunch. 😋🤤 Thanks Penglin and Zhiwang for this treat!

June 17 2019

Zhiwang presenting an invited contribution at PIERS 2019 in Rome! Well done!

June 09 2019

2019 Phononics Young Investigator Award winner! YES!

April 24 2019

You got more than me? I don’t mind, this is my number six but this PRL makes me happy just like the first one! 👊😎
Zhiwang and Maria, great job!

April 16 2019

Never leave your hotel without a food coma 😵!! That was the first course….just saying 🤠!

Great time at the workshop on Metamaterials in Marseille – thanks for having me Sebastien and Richard!

March 10 2019
Some Spanish news feature on “aislantes topológicos”! Si señor!

Feb 25 2019
Majorana zero modes and a big steak with Pablo San-Jose at campus Cantoblanco in Madrid🌀🍴!

Dec 28 2018
You haven’t heard of Communications Physics yet? They should be pretty selective just as Nature Communications, just for the physics area. So in this regard, we are very pumped to have the journal’s first ever review out 💪!

Nov 07 2018
Honored to have the first talk at the SAM: Symposium on Acoustic Metamaterials – Xàtiva 2018. Many thanks to the organizers👊!

Nov 01 2018
After discussing PT symmetry cloaks with Bin Liang we had some steak and burger.

June 15 2018
Thank you Zhengyou for this fruitful collaboration: Today our Phys. Rev. Lett. article came out after a hard fought battle with the referees.

June 08 2018

Having a blast in Beijing at the IUTAM Symposium on Acoustic/elastic metamaterials.

Trying to look good right next to TIGERMAN 🐯!!

April 23 2018

Natalia Lera (UAM) came to visit us to discuss collaboration of mechanical zero-like-modes!

March 15 2018

Visiting the “Organo” (1977) from Eusebio Sempere at Fundación Juan March here in Madrid. We reconfirmed Francisco Meseguer’s measurements from 1995 and found the first band gap at 1670 Hz. We tested it with my mobile phone tone generator!😎🤩




Matthieu Malléjac joined our team for a month. Thanks so much, come back soon!

Jan 31 2018

Dani and Pablo: getting together experts on the multiple scattering theory and graphene….does not get better! 😀

Dec 23 2017

At the International Congress on Ultrasonics in Hawaii and enjoying the Napali coast with wifey! 😀



Nov 8 2017

Cover story on mechanical metamaterials @NatRevMater in the Nov. issue!! Yes Sir!! 🙂

Sep 1 2017

On my way to the Metamaterials conference in Marseille! Look who’s there! Javi Turbo sitting next to me! psst…writing on his ERC AdG..don’t disturb! Note (Apr. 06 2018): He got it, now you know why – they call me lucky charm! 😂😂

Having some dinner with Rasoul, Muamer et al. in Marseille!

July 29 2017

Aurelien Merkel looking sharp in South Korea!

July 15 2017

Prof. Ruzzene and Prof. Willatzen in the house!

Visit from Denmark…this means Beeeeer!!!

Jun 09 2017

On my way to Changsha for the Phononics 2017…so looong trip, getting tired!

Bahram seems to be saying: “Who else should be awarded the Bloch medal??” Congrats Jose, well deserved!

My turn for my keynote presentation after my all time hero Xiang Zhang….not getting better! 😀

Jet lagged …ZZzzzZZZzzz…but chairing this session!

Brother from another mother: Bin Liang!

From a chat between Abdelkrim Khelif and yours truly: J. C. : “Nowadays the youngsters do not know the pioneers like Djafari-Rouhani, Dobrzynski, and Kushwaha!” A. K.: “That’s right, they only know Comsol…”

May 31 2017

Premios de Excelencia 2017

May 11 2017

Dr. Guancong Ma came to show us his exceptional points! 😉

Mar 30 2017

J(kr), H(kr), Y(kr)….those freaking functions….thankfully Dani is here to help out!!!

Mar 08 2017

Thanks to Sebastien Guenneau for having me at the Fresnel Institut! Let’s make plasmons go one-way!

Feb 14 2017

If you wanna get loose, have some goose! 😀 @njuniversity #metamaterials

Feb 14 2017

Had a great time @njuniversity visiting Prof. Ming-Hui Lu discussing #metamaterials!