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cond-mat.soft2026
Design principles for energy dissipation in viscoelastic network metamaterials
Niranjan Sarpangala, Sean Fancher, Prashant K. Purohit +1
Mechanical energy dissipation in networked materials is relevant for applications from vibration isolation to impact protection, yet identifying optimal dissipative architectures i…
nlin.AO2026
Length-scale selection in adaptive transport networks
Sidney Holden, Mia C. Morrell, Geoffrey Vasil +1
Adaptive transport networks in biological and physical systems exhibit hierarchical organization, characteristic channel spacing, and robust scaling relations. Existing adaptive ne…
cond-mat.soft2026
Unidirectional flow from continuous broken symmetries
Aaron Winn, Justine Parmentier, Eleni Katifori +1
Locally broken symmetries are used across fields to transport matter, particles and information in preferential directions. Beyond local mechanisms, spatially distributed nonlinear…