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Overview

Ruben Gatt is affiliated with the University of Malta in Malta, with a research focus primarily in the field of Engineering. Their work spans several subfields, including Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Biotechnology.

Their research contributions involve multiple topics, prominently featuring Cellular and Composite Structures, Advanced Materials and Mechanics, Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics, Plasma Applications and Diagnostics, Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics, Polymer composites and self-healing, and Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety.

Gatt has contributed to various publication venues where their work appears most frequently. These include physica status solidi (b), Materials, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, and Composite Structures.

Among notable recent papers authored by Gatt and collaborators are:

  • HPLC Analysis of Phenolic Compounds and Flavonoids with Overlapping Peaks (2020), Food Technology and Biotechnology
  • Implementation of periodic boundary conditions for loading of mechanical metamaterials and other complex geometric microstructures using finite element analysis (2020), Engineering With Computers
  • Starchirals-A novel class of auxetic hierarchal structures (2020), International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
  • Assessing the individual microbial inhibitory capacity of different sugars against pathogens commonly found in food systems (2020), Letters in Applied Microbiology
  • Generation of plasma functionalized water: Antimicrobial assessment and impact on seed germination (2020), Food Control

Frequent collaborators include Joseph N. Grima, Pierre-Sandre Farrugia, Krzysztof K. Dudek, Vasilis Valdramidis, and Daphne Attard, reflecting ongoing cooperative research efforts across multiple domains.

Best Publications

  • Elastic constants of 3-, 4- and 6-connected chiral and anti-chiral honeycombs subject to uniaxial in-plane loading

    Andrew Alderson;K.L. Alderson;D. Attard;K.E. Evans

  • Tailoring Graphene to Achieve Negative Poisson's Ratio Properties

    Joseph N. Grima;Szymon Winczewski;Luke Mizzi;Michael C. Grech

  • Hierarchical auxetic mechanical metamaterials.

    Ruben Gatt;Luke Mizzi;Joseph I. Azzopardi;Keith M. Azzopardi

  • Auxetic Perforated Mechanical Metamaterials with Randomly Oriented Cuts

    Joseph N. Grima;Luke Mizzi;Keith M. Azzopardi;Ruben Gatt

  • Perforated sheets exhibiting negative Poisson's ratios

    Joseph N. Grima;Ruben Gatt

  • Hexagonal Honeycombs with Zero Poisson's Ratios and Enhanced Stiffness†

    Joseph N. Grima;Ludovica Oliveri;Daphne Attard;Brian Ellul

  • Mechanical metamaterials with star-shaped pores exhibiting negative and zero Poisson’s ratio

    Luke Mizzi;E.M. Mahdi;Kirill Titov;Ruben Gatt

  • Negative Poisson's ratios in tendons: An unexpected mechanical response.

    Ruben Gatt;Michelle Vella Wood;Alfred Gatt;Alfred Gatt;Francis Zarb

  • A novel process for the manufacture of auxetic foams and for their re-conversion to conventional form

    Joseph N. Grima;Daphne Attard;Ruben Gatt;Richard N. Cassar

  • Negative Poisson's ratios in cellular foam materials

    Joseph N. Grima;Ruben Gatt;Naveen Ravirala;Andrew Alderson

  • Smart metamaterials with tunable auxetic and other properties

    Joseph N Grima;Roberto Caruana-Gauci;Mirosław R Dudek;Krzysztof W Wojciechowski

  • Auxetic metamaterials exhibiting giant negative Poisson's ratios

    Luke Mizzi;Keith M. Azzopardi;Daphne Attard;Joseph N. Grima

  • Natrolite: A zeolite with negative Poisson’s ratios

    Joseph N. Grima;Ruben Gatt;Victor A. Zammit;Jennifer J. Williams

  • On the auxetic properties of generic rotating rigid triangles

    Joseph N. Grima;Elaine Chetcuti;Elaine Manicaro;Daphne Attard

  • Three-dimensional cellular structures with negative Poisson's ratio and negative compressibility properties

    Joseph N. Grima;Roberto Caruana-Gauci;Daphne Attard;Ruben Gatt

  • Negative linear compressibility of hexagonal honeycombs and related systems

    Joseph N. Grima;Daphne Attard;Roberto Caruana-Gauci;Ruben Gatt

  • A system with adjustable positive or negative thermal expansion

    Joseph N. Grima;Pierre-Sandre Farrugia;Ruben Gatt;Victor Zammit

  • Influence of translational disorder on the mechanical properties of hexachiral honeycomb systems

    Luke Mizzi;Daphne Attard;Ruben Gatt;Artur A. Pozniak

  • Auxetic behaviour in non-crystalline materials having star or triangular shaped perforations

    Joseph N. Grima;Ruben Gatt;Brian Ellul;Elaine Chetcuti

  • Implementation of periodic boundary conditions for loading of mechanical metamaterials and other complex geometric microstructures using finite element analysis

    Luke Mizzi;Daphne Attard;Ruben Gatt;Krzysztof K. Dudek;Krzysztof K. Dudek

  • Negative thermal expansion

    Joseph N. Grima;Victor Zammit;Ruben Gatt

  • On the auxetic properties of generic rotating rigid triangles. Proc R Soc A

    J. N. Grima;E. Chetcuti;E. Manicaro;D. Attard

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph N. Grima
Joseph N. Grima University of Malta
Kenneth E. Evans
Kenneth E. Evans University of Exeter
Andrew Alderson
Andrew Alderson Sheffield Hallam University
Victor A. Zammit
Victor A. Zammit University of Warwick
Fabrizio Scarpa
Fabrizio Scarpa University of Bristol
Monika Schreiner
Monika Schreiner Leibniz Association
Susanne Neugart
Susanne Neugart University of Göttingen
Jin-Chong Tan
Jin-Chong Tan University of Oxford
Ian Hamerton
Ian Hamerton University of Bristol
Richard I. Walton
Richard I. Walton University of Warwick

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