4 papers
Textiles: from twisted yarn to topology and mechanics
Elizabeth J. Dresselhaus, Sonia Mahmoudi, Lauren Niu +3
While textiles have existed throughout much of human history as complex mechanical metamaterials, textile science has largely been overlooked by the physics community until recentl…
Return point memory in knitted fabrics
Elizabeth J. Dresselhaus, Sonja Hellebrand, Rajyasri Roy +2
The tunable mechanical response of knitted fabrics underpins applications ranging from soft robotics and artificial muscles to morphing electromagnetic field sensors. Elasticity in…
An Orbifold Framework for Classifying Layer Groups with an Application to Knitted Fabrics
Sonia Mahmoudi, Elizabeth J. Dresselhaus, Michael S. Dimitriyev
Entangled structures such as textiles and architected materials are often doubly periodic. Due to this property and their finite transverse thickness, the symmetries of these mater…
Anomalous tensorial properties of anisotropic 2D materials
Elizabeth J. Dresselhaus, Sanjay Govindjee, Kranthi K. Mandadapu
Odd transport phenomena -- defined as a flux response orthogonal to an applied gradient -- have been recently observed in isotropic systems, with a multitude of proposed models and…