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Bubbles enable volumetric negative compressibility in metastable elastocapillary systems

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  • Davide Caprini

    (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)

  • Francesco Battista

    (Sapienza Università di Roma)

  • Paweł Zajdel

    (University of Silesia)

  • Giovanni Di Muccio

    (Sapienza Università di Roma)

  • Carlo Guardiani

    (Sapienza Università di Roma)

  • Benjamin Trump

    (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

  • Marcus Carter

    (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

  • Andrey A. Yakovenko

    (Argonne National Laboratory)

  • Eder Amayuelas

    (Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA))

  • Luis Bartolomé

    (Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA))

  • Simone Meloni

    (Università degli Studi di Ferrara)

  • Yaroslav Grosu

    (Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA)
    University of Silesia)

  • Carlo Massimo Casciola

    (Sapienza Università di Roma)

  • Alberto Giacomello

    (Sapienza Università di Roma)

Abstract

Although coveted in applications, few materials expand when subject to compression or contract under decompression, i.e., exhibit negative compressibility. A key step to achieve such counterintuitive behaviour is the destabilisations of (meta)stable equilibria of the constituents. Here, we propose a simple strategy to obtain negative compressibility exploiting capillary forces both to precompress the elastic material and to release such precompression by a threshold phenomenon – the reversible formation of a bubble in a hydrophobic flexible cavity. We demonstrate that the solid part of such metastable elastocapillary systems displays negative compressibility across different scales: hydrophobic microporous materials, proteins, and millimetre-sized laminae. This concept is applicable to fields such as porous materials, biomolecules, sensors and may be easily extended to create unexpected material susceptibilities.

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  • Davide Caprini & Francesco Battista & Paweł Zajdel & Giovanni Di Muccio & Carlo Guardiani & Benjamin Trump & Marcus Carter & Andrey A. Yakovenko & Eder Amayuelas & Luis Bartolomé & Simone Meloni & Yar, 2024. "Bubbles enable volumetric negative compressibility in metastable elastocapillary systems," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-10, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-49136-w
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49136-w
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