An international research team coordinated at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) has developed mechanical metamaterials ...

A team of international researchers has developed a groundbreaking class of mechanical metamaterials capable of storing and ...

Researchers have developed new twisted mechanical metamaterials that have an exceptionally high elastic energy storage ...

Here, self-organization processes induced by the driving forces of nature, such as the decrease of free enthalpy of the system, are of great help — nature itself guides the way to these structures.

The values for bond enthalpies are found in the data book. For some bonds, the mean bond enthalpy is quoted. This is to give an average value to work from since the precise enthalpy value for a ...

The key characteristic here is enthalpy – the energy density that can be stored in and recovered from an element of the material. Peter Gumbsch, Professor for mechanics of materials at KIT’s ...