Auxetic materials are a fascinating class of materials that exhibit a unique property: they expand laterally when stretched and contract laterally when compressed, which is the opposite behavior ...

This piece is linked to TEAM-A's 3rd Research Challenge. We have now seen how we can create materials that demonstrate auxetic behaviour, but how do these structures interact with propagating waves?

Auxetic materials with counterintuitive negative Poisson’s ratio have been of significant interest due to potential applications across diverse engineering fields. Functionally grading such auxetics ...

QUESTION: Can a material possess a negative Poisson’s ratio? The answer is “yes”. Such materials are known as “auxetic materials”. From above, we see than an auxetic material will expand in the ...

Areas of expertise I model and produce auxetics - solids exhibiting unusual deformation mechanisms - they expand in all directions when pulled in only one, opposite to "classical" materials. Typical ...

Auxetic materials, in simple terms, do the impossible: pull them in one direction, and they also expand in the other. But, ...

This collaboration produced the new line of Ferrino HIKEMASTER backpacks with shoulder straps made of auxetic material. Using this material represents a real revolution in the world of backpacks, so ...