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Straining to expand entanglements

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Porous solids comprising a self-entangled coiled polymer fibre or metal wire reversibly increase their volume when either stretched or compressed in an axial direction, possibly providing a new type of mechanical behaviour for tuning functional properties.

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Figure 1: Coil-based wine-rack model for describing how a transition in coil stiffness, caused by inter-coil contact, can produce a structure that increases its volume when either stretched (red arrows) or compressed (blue arrows).

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  2. Alexandre F. Fonseca is in the Applied Physics Department at the State University of Campinas, Campinas SP, 13083-859, Brazil,

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Baughman, R., Fonseca, A. Straining to expand entanglements. Nature Mater 15, 7–8 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4436

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