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Materials Chemistry

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Re-entrant foam

Re-entrant foam illustrates the importance of processing. A sample of furnace filter foam is processed by heating and cooling while under isotropic compression. When the processed sample is stretched in one direction, it expands in cross section as well. (Companion Demonstration 1.1)

Hoberman sphere

A Hoberman sphere illustrates how stretching in one direction can increase size in the other dimensions.