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Fluid Systems Engineering & Management Blog

by Swagelok Northern California

This New Material Does Something Pretty Unusual When Stretched

by Jeff Hopkins, on 3/1/19 9:00 AM

Researchers have discovered the first synthetic material—a liquid crystal elastomer—that becomes thicker, at a molecular level, when stretched. This property can exist in some natural materials (like human tendons), but being able to fabricate it is a breakthrough, and is thanks to recent advances in engineering, particularly 3D printing.

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