By using new geometric shapes in shock-absorbing material, researchers at the Universities of Gothenburg and Isfahan have ...

Inspired by the humble deep-sea sponge, RMIT University engineers have developed a new material with remarkable compressive ...

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 ...

An explanation of the auxetic material found in the inner layer of a mussel shell and how it absorbs impact by becoming denser when stretched. At Sheffield Hallam University, engineers are ...

By using new geometric shapes in the shock-absorbing material, researchers at the Universities of Gothenburg and Isfahan have developed a bicycle ...

A team of engineers from RMIT’s Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials utilized biomimicry to develop a super-strong lattice structure that provides enhanced performance compared to ...

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 ...

It’s this last aspect – known as auxetic behaviour – that opens a whole range of possibilities to apply the design across structural engineering and other applications. “While most materials get ...