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Geometry and Mechanics of Ribbon Gridshells
Daniel Castro, Joo-Won Hong, Hillel Aharoni +3
Mechanical metamaterials exhibit anomalous properties induced from non-trivial mesoscopic constituents. Inspired from architectural and industrial structures, we introduce arrangem…
Defect Topology in Colloidal Smectics
Chaya Halperin, Hillel Aharoni
Colloidal smectics -- layered structures formed in dense suspensions of rod-like particles -- often exhibit grain boundaries, across which the layer orientation changes by $90^{\ci…
Unfrustrated Self-Morphing of Bulk Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Shachaf Rotem, Hillel Aharoni
Precise manipulation of shape-morphing responsive materials is crucial for applications in soft robotics and adaptive structures. While notable precision has been achieved in thin…
Inverse Design of Tightly Woven Smart Fabrics
Einav Berin, Hillel Aharoni
We present a geometric framework for the inverse design of smart woven fabrics composed of non-uniformly shrinking threads. A sufficiently tight weaving structure imposes strong lo…