We explore the potential of nanocrystals (a term used equivalently to nanoparticles) as
building blocks for nanomaterials, and the current advances and open challenges for …

Poisson's ratio had long been considered to be an intrinsic material property, confined within
a narrow domain and governed solely by the geometry of interatomic bonds. Materials with …

The mechanical features of biological muscles are difficult to reproduce completely in
synthetic systems. A new class of soft pneumatic structures (vacuum-actuated muscle …

Mechanical properties of materials have long been one of the most fundamental and studied
areas of materials science for a myriad of applications. Recently, mechanical metamaterials …

In recent years, various auxetic material structures have been designed and fabricated for
diverse applications that utilize normal materials that follow Hooke's law but still show the …

Graphene‐based materials are useful reinforcing agents to modify the mechanical
properties of hydrogels. Here, an approach is presented to covalently incorporate graphene …

Most materials shrink laterally like a rubber band when stretched, so their Poisson's ratios
are positive. Likewise, most materials contract in all directions when hydrostatically …

Silver (I) hexacyanocobaltate (III), Ag3 [Co (CN) 6], shows a large negative linear
compressibility (NLC, linear expansion under hydrostatic pressure) at ambient temperature …

A two-dimensional model of tri-atomic molecules (in which'atoms' are distributed on vertices
of equilateral triangles, and which are further referred to as cyclic trimers) is solved exactly in …

We show by atomistic simulations that, in the thermodynamic limit, the in-plane elastic
moduli of graphene at finite temperature vanish with system size L as a power law L-η u with …