This material does weird things under pressure
Microcube is designed so that pressure makes it expand instead of compress
![microcube diagram](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/111717_MT_metamaterial_feat.png?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
SQUEEZE PLAY This weird new metamaterial achieves the counterintuitive feat of expanding when squeezed.
J. Qu, Muamer Kadic and Martin Wegener