Sunday, October 14, 2012

Auxetic materials

Auxetic materials have the property of getting thicker when stretching it. If you pull them in one direction, they will expand in the other one. Even though this material is pretty recent, it already has many patents from different brands such as Toyota or Mitsubishi. Some of the applications can be personal protection clothing, biomedical or high strength ropes or cords.


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