Mechanical metamaterials are man-made structures with counterintuitive mechanical
properties that originate in the geometry of their unit cell instead of the properties of each …

Material properties can be tailored through modification of their geometry or architecture.
With this concept, a lot of smart materials, metamaterials, and smart structures have been …

In comparing a material's resistance to distort under mechanical load rather than to alter in
volume, Poisson's ratio offers the fundamental metric by which to compare the performance …

Bulk metallic glass (BMG) provides plentiful precise knowledge of fundamental parameters
of elastic moduli, which offer a benchmark reference point for understanding and …

Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio of a porous polymeric construct (scaffold) quantitatively
describe how it supports and transmits external stresses to its surroundings. While Young's …

A two-dimensional model of tri-atomic molecules (in which'atoms' are distributed on vertices
of equilateral triangles, and which are further referred to as cyclic trimers) is solved exactly in …

The Poisson's ratio is a fundamental measure of the elastic-deformation behaviour of
materials. Although negative Poisson's ratios are theoretically possible, they were believed …

A chain of singly charged particles, confined by a harmonic potential, exhibits a sudden
transition to a zigzag configuration when the radial potential reaches a critical value …

Cells sense and respond to mechanical forces, regardless of whether the source is from a
normal tissue matrix, an adjacent cell or a synthetic substrate. In recent years, cell response …

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