The joy of rulebreaking
Just like a water bottle shrinks at the end of a flight as the air pressure increases, most objects get smaller in every direction when pressure is applied equally (hydrostatically) around it. Negative linear compressibility (NLC) is the bizarre phenomenon that involves a structure actually expanding in one direction under the same conditions — in doing so it has to fight against the external pressure. For some time our design approach to engineering NLC has been to focus on
