(Nanowerk Spotlight) Poisson's ratio describes the fundamental elasticity of any solid. Conventional materials contract laterally when stretched and Poisson's ratio expresses the ratio of transverse ...

If the Poisson’s ratio of the material if positive, then tensile/compressive strains in the x-direction produce compressive/tensile strains in the y- and z-directions, as shown below. Negative Poisson ...

The Poisson ratio (defined as −1 times the ratio of lateral to applied elastic strains) describes the behaviour of stretched materials — positive Poisson ratios characterize the expected normal ...

The defining property of an auxetic material is, then, that it possesses one or more negative Poisson’s ratios (as opposed to the positive Poisson’s ratio displayed by ‘normal’ materials). Do you have ...

The rapid urbanization of the 21st century demands next-generation construction materials and structural systems that are not only lightweight and ...

This study is led by Prof. Hao Wu (Flexible Electronics Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, ...

Most materials get thinner when stretched, but “auxetics” do the opposite and get thicker. Helen Gleeson describes her group’s discovery of a material that is auxetic at the molecular level, which ...

Regardless of whether it is strained or compressed, the new material always expands. Copyright: Thomas Heine et al. Researchers have discovered a two-dimensional ...