3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Building granular structures with elasto-active systems
Yuchen Xi, Tom Marzin, P. -T. Brun
Natural active systems routinely reshape and reorganize their environments through sustained local interactions. Examples of decentralized collective construction are common in nat…
cond-mat.soft2024
Morpho-plastic cellular metamaterials
Victor Charpentier, Ignacio Andrade-Silva, Trevor J. Jones +4
Deployable structures, essential across various engineering applications ranging from umbrellas to satellites, are evolving to include soft, morphable designs where geometry drives…
cond-mat.soft2024
Augmented snap-through instability of folded strips
Tom Marzin, Barath Venkateswaran, Thomas Baroux +1
Bistability and snap-through instabilities are central to various mechanisms in nature and engineering, enabling rapid movement and large shape changes with minimal energy input. T…