Harnessing Buckling to Design Architected Materials that Exhibit Effective Negative Swelling.

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Abstract

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.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Adv. Mater. Weinheim

Title: Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

ISSN (Electronic): 1521-4095

ISSN (Print): 0935-9648

Publication date (Electronic): Aug 2016

Volume: 28

Issue: 31

Affiliations

[1 ] Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.

[2 ] Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA.

[3 ] Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.

[4 ] Kavli Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.

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DOI: 10.1002/adma.201600812

PubMed ID: 27184443

SO-VID: e1234b08-75ef-48ee-a3a1-7bdc2446d8cf

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Keywords: architected materials,buckling,negative swelling ratio,swelling

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Keywords: architected materials, buckling, negative swelling ratio, swelling

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