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This work was supported by Horizon 2020 Framework Programme [grant number 953134].

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Hybrid design and prototyping of metamaterials and metasurfaces

Publicated to:Virtual And Physical Prototyping. 17 (4): 1031-1046 - 2022-10-02 17(4), DOI: 10.1080/17452759.2022.2101009

Authors: Franco-Martinez, Francisco; Grasl, Christian; Kornfellner, Erik; Vostatek, Matthias; Cendrero, Adrian Martinez; Moscato, Francesco; Lantada, Andres Diaz

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Austrian Cluster Tissue Regenerat, Vienna, Austria - Author
Ludwig Boltzmann Inst Cardiovasc Res, Vienna, Austria - Author
Med Univ Vienna, Ctr Med Phys & Biomed Engn, Vienna, Austria - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, Prod Dev Lab, Mech Engn Dept, calle Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2, Madrid 28006, Spain - Author

Abstract

Metamaterials are engineered materials conceived and designed to achieve very special or even unique physical properties, which depend on the designed micro or nanostructures, more than on the chemical composition of the raw materials employed for their fabrication. Normally metamaterials are made of periodic repetitions of unit cells or Boolean combinations of lattices or porous building blocks. Metasurfaces are the quasi-two-dimensional version of metamaterials and are generally applied to controlling electromagnetic and acoustic waves reaching them. Metamaterials are mainly created through high-precision additive manufacturing technologies, while metasurfaces are normally obtained using micromanufacturing techniques from the electronics industry and laser patterning methods. Consequently, the potential benefits and industrial applications of multi-scale or hierarchical metastructures, which could be obtained by merging metamaterials and metasurfaces, remain unexplored. Through the innovative combination of 3D CAD modelling resources and specific tools for computational mapping of topographical 2D images this study validates the possibility of texturing the building blocks and unit cells of metamaterials, hence reaching designs with interwoven metamaterials and metasurfaces. These microtextured lattices are additively manufactured, using two-photon polymerisation, to demonstrate the feasibility of bridging the gap between metamaterials and metasurfaces and analyse current challenges and potential applications of these digital materials.

Keywords
2-photonAdditive manufacturingDigital materialsFabricationMetamaterialsMetasurfacesRapid prototypingTwo-photon polymerisation

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Virtual And Physical Prototyping due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position 6/50, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Engineering, Manufacturing.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations from Scopus Elsevier, it yields a value for the Field-Weighted Citation Impact from the Scopus agency: 1.36, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 5.66 (source consulted: Dimensions May 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-05-07, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 12
  • Scopus: 14
  • OpenCitations: 11
Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-05-07:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 35.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 35 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 0.5.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).
Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Austria.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (FRANCO MARTINEZ, FRANCISCO) and Last Author (DIAZ LANTADA, ANDRES).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been DIAZ LANTADA, ANDRES.