Harnessing Buckling to Design Architected Materials that Exhibit Effective Negative Swelling.

Liu, Jia; Gu, Tianyu; Shan, Sicong; Kang, Sung H; Weaver, James C; Bertoldi, Katia · Adv Mater · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Inspired by the need to develop materials capable of targeted and extreme volume changes during operation, numerical simulations and experiments are combined to design a new class of soft architected materials that achieve a reduction of projected surface-area coverage during swelling.