that is, a negative Poisson's ratio, a property that arises from 1) the presence of specific
geometric features within the nano/macrostructure of the material and 2) amenable
deformations in response to the applied stimulus. Herein, how ancient symmetrical esthetic
artifacts have been transformed to functional auxetics through mechanisms that have
ripened the field of “mechanical metamaterials” and “architected materials” in the last …