The continuous advancement of multifunctional materials is resha** our way of life and
paving the door for innovative things for us to probe the world and ourselves. Multifunctional …

The surge of interest in so-called “designer materials” during the last few years together with
recent advances in additive manufacturing (3D printing) techniques that enable fabrication …

Auxetic mechanical metamaterials are artificially architected materials that possess negative
Poisson's ratio, demonstrating transversal contracting deformation under external vertical …

Mechanical metamaterials have been designed to achieve custom Poisson's ratios via the
deformation of their microarchitecture. These designs, however, have yet to achieve the …

Material properties can be tailored through modification of their geometry or architecture.
With this concept, a lot of smart materials, metamaterials, and smart structures have been …

Following high profile, life changing long term mental illnesses and fatalities in sports such
as skiing, cricket and American football—sports injuries feature regularly in national and …

Recent advances in lithography technology and the spread of 3D printers allow us a facile
fabrication of special materials with complicated microstructures. The materials are called …

Auxetic textiles are intriguing materials with unusual capabilities. These materials exhibit
negative Poisson's ratio with extraordinary performance in toughness, resilience, shear …

Auxetic materials exhibiting a negative Poisson's ratio are shown to have better indentation
resistance, impact shielding capability, and enhanced toughness. Here, we report a class of …

Auxetic honeycombs have been extensively studied due to their unique mechanical
properties. In this paper, the dynamic response of WSH (The windmill-like configuration …