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Multistable energy landscapes for adaptive microscopic machines
Melody Xuan Lim, Zexi Liang, Gabriel Alkuino +5
The past few years have seen great strides in our ability to build synthetic microscopic machines. However, the function of such machines is often controlled directly by externally…
Dicovering the emergent nonlinear dynamics of acoustically levitated cube clusters
Annie Z. Xia, Melody X. Lim, Jason Z. Kim +2
The complex behavior of many natural and engineered systems emerges from the interaction of a small number of effective degrees of freedom. Discovering the physical basis of the in…
Acoustic manipulation of multi-body structures and dynamics
Melody X. Lim, Bryan VanSaders, Heinrich M. Jaeger
Sound can exert forces on objects of any material and shape. This has made the contactless manipulation of objects by intense ultrasound a fascinating area of research with wide-ra…
Hydrodynamic Coupling Melts Acoustically Levitated Crystalline Rafts
Brady Wu, Bryan VanSaders, Melody X. Lim +1
The acoustic levitation of small particles provides a versatile platform to investigate the collective dynamical properties of self-assembled many-body systems in the presence of h…
Acoustically levitated lock and key grains
Melody X. Lim, Heinrich M. Jaeger
We present a scheme for generating shape-dependent, specific bonds between millimeter scale particles, using acoustic levitation. We levitate particles in an ultrasonic standing wa…
Mechanical properties of acoustically levitated granular rafts
Melody X. Lim, Bryan VanSaders, Anton Souslov +1
We investigate a model system for the rotational dynamics of inertial many-particle clustering, in which sub-millimeter objects are acoustically levitated in air. Driven by scatter…