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The physics of crêpes: Elasto-gravity control of soft folding
Tom Marzin, Barath Venkateswaran, Yuchen Xi +2
Like a crêpe resting on a plate, a thin elastic sheet can fold smoothly under its own weight, forming reversible shapes without creases or imposed hinges. Such soft folds arise fro…
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…
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…
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…
Emergent intelligence of buckling-driven elasto-active structures
Yuchen Xi, Trevor J. Jones, Richard Huang +2
Active systems of self-propelled agents, e.g., birds, fish, and bacteria, can organize their collective motion into myriad autonomous behaviors. Ubiquitous in nature and across len…