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  • Spontaneous symmetry breaking can induce instabilities in natural and engineered systems. Nicolaou et al. show that such instabilities can be prevented by introducing suitable system asymmetry in the form of spatial heterogeneity, relevant for the development of novel control and design techniques.

    • Zachary G. Nicolaou
    • Daniel J. Case
    • Adilson E. Motter
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-9

  • Most materials expand along the direction of an external pulling force, but there are no materials that compress instead. The proposal of mechanical metamaterials that show such negative compressibility promises new artificial materials with designed functionalities.

    • Zachary G. Nicolaou
    • Adilson E. Motter
    Research
    Nature Materials
    Volume: 11, P: 608-613