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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2019
Applicant:
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (US);
Inventor:
Yaning Li, Durham, NH (US);
Assignee:
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Durham, NH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 7/022 (2019.01); B32B 27/08 (2006.01); B33Y 80/00 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 7/022 (2019.01); B32B 27/08 (2013.01); B33Y 80/00 (2014.12); B32B 2307/54 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention is directed at materials and methods for their formation having wavy network structures dispersed in a second and relatively harder phase. The materials can be designed to exhibit auxetic properties (e.g. a negative Poisson's ratio) in response to an application of force.