(Nanowerk News) Like most materials, an elastic band gets thinner when it is stretched. But some materials behave in the opposite way — they grow thicker when stretched and thinner when compressed.

(Nanowerk News) Stretchable electronic devices are usually implemented on 2D surfaces of some base elastomeric materials – these devices then deform following the stretching deformation of this base ...

Figure 1: Design concept and schematic fabrication process of the impact-buffered structural electrodes. (a) Advantages of NPR-structural electrodes compared to the thin film structure and mesh ...

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

Australia's Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO) has identified a range of aerospace uses for negative Poisson ratio (NPR) materials and recommends further research. NPR materials become ...