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June 18, 2026

Rodrigo Manzano Researches through an Interdisciplinary Lens at Lehigh University

Lehigh University doctoral student Rodrigo Manzano has a degree in advanced solid mechanics, or the science of figuring out how materials react to being placed under stress. They might bend, deform in different ways, or even break, and a single material might react differently under different conditions. At Lehigh, he is focussing his research on auxetic materials, which he describes as a “special kind of metamaterial [an artificially engineered material] that, when you stretch it...