Design and application of piezoelectric and electromagnetic energy harvesters for mechanical energy harvesting in the human-body: A review

YH Zhang, A Lee, CH Lee - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2024 - Elsevier
The popularity of smart electronic products has facilitated their incorporation into various
fields related to the Human-body, such as portable tools, wearable electronics …

[HTML][HTML] Increase in Auxeticity Due to the Presence of a Disordered Crystalline Phase of Hard Dumbbells Within the Nanolayer–Nanochannel Inclusion Introduced to …

JW Narojczyk - Materials, 2024 - mdpi.com
To obtain materials or metamaterials with desired elastic properties that are tailor-made for a
particular application, it is necessary to design a new material or composite (which may be …

Bending response and energy absorption of sandwich beams with combined reinforced auxetic honeycomb core

Y Ma, D Zhang, Z Liu, P Xu, F Lu… - Mechanics of Advanced …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study introduces a reinforced star-shaped auxetic honeycomb (RSSAH) sandwich
beam, enhanced with hollow thin-walled tubes to improve bending resistance and energy …

Structure-property relationships of 3D woven fabric composites: A critical review through bibliometric and content analyses

V Verma, A Majumdar - Journal of Composite Materials, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
3D fabric composites generally have significant thickness in a monolithic structure
eliminating the need for multi-ply laminates. 3D fabric preforms have given significant boost …

Toughened hydrogels for 3D printing of soft auxetic structures

S Pruksawan, HL Chee, Z Wang, P Luo… - Chemistry–An Asian …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Materials with negative Poisson's ratio have attracted considerable attention and offered
high potential applications as biomedical devices due to their ability to expand in every …

Screen-printed highly mechanical and conductive flexible electrodes based on chiral structure with negative Poisson's ratio

Q Hou, G Yao, Y Zhu, C Han, M Wang - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2022 - Elsevier
Stretching and bending are the two most prevalent deformations during the service of
wearable electronic devices that increase the demand for conductivity. However, the …

Structurally Transformable and Reconfigurable Hydrogel-Based Mechanical Metamaterials and Their Application in Biomedical Stents

S Pruksawan, RLJ Teo, YH Cheang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Mechanical metamaterials exhibit several unusual mechanical properties, such as a
negative Poisson's ratio, which impart additional capabilities to materials. Recently …

Multi-objective optimization design of NPR protection shell for hydrogen storage tank

G Zhou, Y Niu, J Zhao, Y Wang - Mechanics of Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In order to improve the safety of on-board hydrogen storage tanks during collision, a
protective shell based on a negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) core is designed in this paper …

3D printed spacer fabrics

A Halbrecht, M Kinsbursky, R Poranne, Y Sterman - Additive Manufacturing, 2023 - Elsevier
Spacer fabrics are three-dimensional textiles composed of two fabric layers and a filler yarn
that connects the outer layers, while maintaining some distance between them. Spacer …

[HTML][HTML] A Molecular Dynamics Study on Auxetic Behaviors of Origami Graphene/Cu Nanocomposites

BW Na, HN Zhang, Y Fan, Y Wang - Journal of Composites Science, 2024 - mdpi.com
Graphene is considered to be one of the most promising reinforcement phases for
nanocomposites due to its unique two-dimensional planar structure with excellent …