3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Self-limiting states of polar misfits: Frustrated assembly of warped-jigsaw particles
Michael Wang, Gregory M. Grason
We study the ground state thermodynamics of a model class of geometrically frustrated assemblies, known as {\it warped-jigsaw} particles. While it is known that frustration in soft…
cond-mat.soft2024
Geometrically frustrated, mechanical metamaterial membranes: Large-scale stress accumulation and size-selective assembly
Micheal Wang, Sourav Roy, Christian D. Santangelo +1
We study the effect of geometric frustration on dilational mechanical metamaterial membranes. While shape frustrated elastic plates can only accommodate non-zero Gaussian curvature…
cond-mat.soft2023
Thermal stability and secondary aggregation of self-limiting, geometrically-frustrated assemblies: Chain assembly of incommensurate polybricks
Michael Wang, Gregory Grason
In geometrically frustrated assemblies, equilibrium self-limitation manifests in the form of a minimum in the free energy per subunit at a finite, multi-subunit size which results…