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Knit and stretch

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15 Jan 2019
Taken from the January 2019 issue of Physics World.

What do earthquakes, robotics and jumpers have in common? Samuel Poincloux explains why the answer lies with knitting – and how stretching a knitted material is rooted in mechanics

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Samuel Poincloux did his PhD at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and is now a postdoctoral researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, e-mail samuel.poincloux@epfl.ch
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