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Harnessing Buckling to Design Architected Materials that Exhibit Effective Negative Swelling
Author(s) -
Liu Jia,
Gu Tianyu,
Shan Sicong,
Kang Sung H.,
Weaver James C.,
Bertoldi Katia
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201600812
Subject(s) - materials science , swelling , reduction (mathematics) , nanotechnology , composite material , soft materials , geometry , mathematics
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.