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Torsional Instabilities in the Delamination of Soft Adhesives
Tara K. Venkatadri, Thomas Henzel, Tal Cohen
Soft adhesive contacts are ubiquitous in nature and are increasingly used in synthetic systems, such as flexible electronics and soft robots, due to their advantages over tradition…
Periodic necking of misfit hyperelastic filaments embedded in a soft matrix
Jian Li, Hannah Varner, Tal Cohen
The necking instability is a precursor to tensile failure and rupture of materials. A quasistatically loaded free-standing uniaxial specimen typically exhibits necking at a single…
Biofilms as self-shaping growing nematics
Japinder Nijjer, Mrityunjay Kothari, Changhao Li +7
Active nematics are the nonequilibrium analog of passive liquid crystals in which anisotropic units consume free energy to drive emergent behavior. Similar to liquid crystal (LC) m…
Interfacial Cavitation
Thomas Henzel, Japinder Nijjer, Chockalingam Senthilnathan +4
Cavitation has long been recognized as a crucial predictor, or precursor, to the ultimate failure of various materials, ranging from ductile metals to soft and biological materials…
A Reciprocal Theorem for Finite Deformations in Incompressible Bodies
Thomas Henzel, Chockalingam Senthilnathan, Tal Cohen
The reciprocal theorems of Maxwell and Betti are foundational in mechanics but have so far been restricted to infinitesimal deformations in elastic bodies. In this manuscript, we p…
The crucial role of elasticity in regulating liquid-liquid phase separation in cells
Mrityunjay Kothari, Tal Cohen
Liquid-liquid phase separation has emerged as a fundamental mechanism underlying intracellular organization, with evidence for it being reported in numerous different systems. Howe…