Designing a particular change in a system structure to achieve the desired elastic properties of materials for a given task is challenging. Recent studies of purely geometrical atomic models have shown that structural modifications on a molecular lev...
To obtain materials or metamaterials with desired elastic properties that are tailor-made for a particular application, it is necessary to design a new material or composite (which may be cumbersome) or to modify the structure of existing materials i...
The results of studies on the influence of periodically stacked nanolayer inclusions, introduced into the face-centered cubic (f.c.c.) hard sphere crystal, on Poisson’s ratio of the obtained nanocomposite system are presented. The monolayers ar...
The elastic properties of f.c.c. hard sphere crystals with periodic arrays of nanoinclusions filled by hard spheres of another diameter are the subject of this paper. It has been shown that a simple modification of the model structure is sufficient t...
Negative Poisson’s ratio materials (called auxetics) reshape our centuries-long understanding of the elastic properties of materials. Their vast set of potential applications drives us to search for auxetic properties in real systems and to cre...