5 papers
Tuning nonlinear waves in nonreciprocal active filaments
Sami C. Al-Izzi, Jack Binysh, Yao Du +2
The instabilities of slender structures power biological locomotion across scales, and offer a compelling method to actuate soft robots. Nonreciprocal elastic solids have been foun…
Dynamical frustration in spacetime metamaterials enables cascading logic and synchronization
Rupesh Mahore, Oleksandr Gamayun, Guillaume Noetinger +3
Spacetime metamaterials are engineered media whose constitutive parameters such as permittivity, permeability, stiffness, or mass density are modulated simultaneously in both space…
Multipolar Piezoelectricity and Anisotropic Surface Transport in Alterelectrics
Amber Visser, Viktor Könye, Oleg Janson +3
Altermagnets are an emergent class of materials combining features of ferro- and antiferro-magnetic materials. They have spin-separated bands normally associated with ferromagnets,…
Nonreciprocal buckling makes active filaments polyfunctional
Sami C. Al-Izzi, Yao Du, Jonas Veenstra +5
Active filaments are a workhorse for propulsion and actuation across biology, soft robotics and mechanical metamaterials. However, artificial active rods suffer from limited robust…
Curved Odd Elasticity
Yuan Zhou, Lazaros Tsaloukidis, Jack Binysh +4
Living materials such as membranes, cytoskeletal assemblies, cell collectives and tissues can often be described as active solids---materials that are energized from within, with e…