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Welcome to the Auxetic Materials Network |
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Network SummaryThis Auxetic Materials Network seeks to promote research into the
synthesis, fabrication, testing, applications and modelling of auxetic
materials, focus UK activities and align these activities within
the International arena. The Network includes industrial collaborators
who have access to the latest developments in auxetic material research
and provide the academic members with an industrial perspective
on the research, promoting applications-based projects. Exchange
of personnel (especially research students) to share facilities
and expertise is a key objective of this Network, as is the generation
of research proposals to allow the Network to achieve self-sufficiency
after the initial funding period. Auxetic materials are those that
get fatter when you pull them and have been shown to offer huge
potential through measured enhancements in properties such as indentation
resistance, low velocity impact resistance, fracture toughness and
energy absorption. An integrated series of research projects will
allow these benefits (and other potential but as yet untested property
enhancements) to be fully understood and exploited. |
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Latest News
Industrial Partners Rolls Royce, ICI, Dow Corning, DuPont, SEOS Displays Ltd , QinetiQ, Hurel Hispano, Auxetic Technologies Limited, Auxetix Ltd, Cytec Engineered Materials Ltd. In collaboration with University of Leeds and University of Malta, This project is funded by; |
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