• One-way traffic for motion in new material

    Scientists have developed a material that breaks one of the fundamental principles governing many physical systems. Ordinary materials transmit external forces equally, no matter where the pressure comes from. The …

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  • Eenrichtingsweg voor beweging in nieuw materiaal

    Onderzoekers hebben een materiaal ontwikkeld dat ingaat tegen een van de basisprincipes van de natuurkunde. Reguliere materialen die ingedrukt worden, verspreiden de druk gelijkmatig, ongeacht waar die vandaan komt. Het …

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  • Building with flexible blocks

    On an apparently normal cube a pattern of hollows and bulges appears when the cube is compressed. Physicists from FOM Institute AMOLF and Leiden University together with colleagues from Tel …

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  • Bouwen met flexibele blokjes

    Op een ogenschijnlijk gewone kubus verschijnt onder druk een patroon van hollingen en bollingen. Natuurkundigen van FOM-instituut AMOLF en de Universiteit Leiden hebben samen met collega's van de Universiteit van …

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  • Veni grants for Scott Waitukaitus & Andrew Musser

    The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded Veni grants to the AMOLF researchers Scott Waitukaitus and Andrew Musser. In total 158 researchers received a Veni grant with a maximum …

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  • Metamaterial undermines 250-year-old construction principles

    Researchers from the Mechanical Metamaterials group have demonstrated how a rubber beam subjected to less pressure bends faster.This behaviour defies our expectations and appears to undermine the centuries-old bending laws.

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  • Veni grant for Corentin Coulais

    The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded a Veni grant to Corentin Coulais for his proposal on Aperiodic Mechanical Metamaterials. Coulais is postdoc in the group Mechanical Metamaterials. In …

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  • Designer Matter Workshop

    From June 22nd until June 24th the new research field of Designer Matter organized a workshop at AMOLF bringing together exciting work in the physics, engineering and design communities. The …

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  • Martin van Hecke starts new research group on ‘Mechanical Metamaterials’

    As of September 1, Martin van Hecke starts a new research group on Mechanical Metamaterials. These forms of matter derive their transnatural functionalities from their structure rather than composition --- …

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  • AMOLF to pursue Designer Matter

    Arrival of Martin van Hecke initiates a new line of research. FOM Institute AMOLF is launching a new line of research in designer matter, aimed at the design of new …

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