Multi-material Additive Manufacturing of Metamaterials with Giant, Tailorable Negative Poisson's Ratios.

ABSTRACT: Nature has evolved with a recurring strategy to achieve unusual mechanical properties through coupling variable elastic moduli from a few GPa to below KPa within a single tissue. The ability to produce multi-material, three-dimensional (3D) micro-architectures with high fidelity incorporating dissimilar components has been a major challenge in man-made materials. Here we show multi-modulus metamaterials whose architectural element is comprised of encoded elasticity ranging from rigid to soft. We found that, in contrast to ordinary architected materials whose negative Poisson's ratio is dictated by their geometry, these type of metamaterials are capable of displaying Poisson's ratios from extreme negative to zero, independent of their 3D micro-architecture. The resulting low density metamat

SUBMITTER: Chen D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6002359 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature