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How to grow a flat leaf
Salem al-Mosleh, L. Mahadevan
Growing a flat lamina such as a leaf is almost impossible without some feedback to stabilize long wavelength modes that are easy to trigger since they are energetically cheap. Here…
Defect-mediated dynamics of coherent structures in active nematics
Mattia Serra, Linnea Lemma, Luca Giomi +2
Active fluids, such as cytoskeletal filaments, bacterial colonies and epithelial cell layers, exhibit distinctive orientational coherence, often characterized by nematic order and…
Combing a double helix
Thomas Bolton Plumb-Reyes, Nicholas Charles, L. Mahadevan
Combing hair involves brushing away the topological tangles in a collective curl. Using a combination of experiment and computation, we study this problem that naturally links topo…
Wallpaper group kirigami
Lucy Liu, Gary P. T. Choi, L. Mahadevan
Kirigami, the art of paper cutting, has become a paradigm for mechanical metamaterials in recent years. The basic building blocks of any kirigami structures are repetitive deployab…
Control of connectivity and rigidity in prismatic assemblies
Gary P. T. Choi, Siheng Chen, L. Mahadevan
How can we manipulate the topological connectivity of a three-dimensional prismatic assembly to control the number of internal degrees of freedom and the number of connected compon…
Rotation of a submerged finite cylinder moving down a soft incline
Baudouin Saintyves, Bhargav Rallabandi, Theo Jules +5
A submerged finite cylinder moving under its own weight along a soft incline lifts off and slides at a steady velocity while also spinning. Here, we experimentally quantify the ste…