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Active dislocations and topological traps govern dynamics of spiraling filamentous cyanobacteria
Xingting Gong, Manu Prakash
Activity can organize matter in unique configurations inaccessible to equilibrium systems, including a sundry of spiraling shapes seen in nature that range from galaxies to living…
Engineering reconfigurable flow patterns via surface-driven light-controlled active matter
Xingting Gong, Arnold Mathijssen, Zev Bryant +1
Surface-driven flows are ubiquitous in nature, from subcellular cytoplasmic streaming to organ-scale ciliary arrays. Here, we model how confined geometries can be used to engineer…
Algorithmic Lattice Kirigami: A Route to Pluripotent Materials
Daniel M. Sussman, Yigil Cho, Toen Castle +4
We use a regular arrangement of kirigami elements to demonstrate an inverse design paradigm for folding a flat surface into complex target configurations. We first present a scheme…
Making the Cut: Lattice Kirigami Rules
Toen Castle, Yigil Cho, Xingting Gong +4
In this paper we explore and develop a simple set of rules that apply to cutting, pasting, and folding honeycomb lattices. We consider origami-like structures that are extinsically…
Stacking Textures and Singularities in Bilayer Graphene
Xingting Gong, E. J. Mele
We study a family of globally smooth spatially varying two dimensional stacking textures in bilayer graphene. We find that the strain-minimizing stacking patterns connecting inequi…