Textiles have emerged as a promising class of materials for developing wearable robots that
move and feel like everyday clothing. Textiles represent a favorable material platform for …

Following high profile, life changing long term mental illnesses and fatalities in sports such
as skiing, cricket and American football—sports injuries feature regularly in national and …

Auxetic textiles are intriguing materials with unusual capabilities. These materials exhibit
negative Poisson's ratio with extraordinary performance in toughness, resilience, shear …

This study aims at introducing a number of two-dimensional (2D) re-entrant based zero
Poisson's ratio (ZPR) graded metamaterials for energy absorption applications. The …

Soft robotics, an emerging field that focuses on the development of robots utilizing soft,
flexible, and deformable materials, is revolutionizing traditional robotics (reliant on rigid …

Life‐changing illnesses and fatalities caused by inefficient personal protective clothing and
equipment are increasing day by day. The discrepancy between the test standards …

Textile‐based electromechanical sensors are increasingly used as wearable sensors for
various applications, such as health monitoring and human‐machine interfaces. These …

The fabrication of auxetic fabrics by using conventional yarns and machinery has gained
extraordinary interest from researchers in recent years. However, to date this approach has …

Auxetic materials are the materials that expand in the transverse direction when stretched in
the longitudinal direction. Auxetics materials are a boon to the field of biomedical …

This paper reports a novel method to fabricate auxetic warp knitted fabrics on a tricot warp
knitting machine based on a special structure design and knitting process. Three auxetic …