The Preparation of Auxetic Foams by Three‐<scp>D</scp>imensional Printing and Their Characteristics

Abstract

Repeatable auxetic foams are produced using three-dimensional printing technologies. This methodology is applied here for the first time to produce playable polymeric auxetic foams with an idealized re-entrant cellular structure. During uniaxial tensile stress, the foams show negative Poisson's ratios as low as −1.18. The experimental Poisson's ratios of the auxetic foams are compared against the data predicted by a three-dimensional mathematical model.