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most citedMechanical memories in solids, from disorder to design

33 citations · 40 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Materializing split, mixed, and three-body interactions using rotor-based mechanical hysterons

Oche T. Ali, Faten A. Al Ardat, Jack Feider +4

Interacting hysteretic spins are an appealing model for cyclically-driven athermal disordered matter. Because they provide a basis for storing and processing information from their…

cond-mat.soft2026

Single-material 4D-printed shape-morphing structures via spatially patterned strain trapping

S M Asif Iqbal, Hang Zhang, Lin Yang +3

A single-step, single-material 4D printing method is developed for programmable structures featuring spatially patterned strain trapping for one-way actuation. This approach enable…

cond-mat.dis-nn2026

Learning Associations in Reconfigurable Particle Packings via Local Cyclic Driving

Wenjing Guo, Vidyesh Rao Anisetti, Kairui Zhang +7

We investigate associative-memory behavior in a reconfigurable particle packing programmed by purely local cyclic driving. The system is a two-dimensional bidisperse Lennard--Jones…

cond-mat.soft2025

Ordered buckling structures in a twisted crimped tube

Pan Dong, Nathan C. Keim, Joseph D. Paulsen

When a ribbon or tube is twisted far enough it forms buckles and wrinkles. Its new geometry can be strikingly ordered, or hopelessly disordered. Here we study this process in a tub…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 1 cited

Controlling Droplets at the Tips of Fibers

Mengfei He, Samay Hulikal, Marianna Marquardt +5

Many complex wetting behaviors of fibrous materials are rooted in the behaviors of individual droplets attached to pairs of fibers. Here, we study the splitting of a droplet held b…

cond-mat.soft2024

Shape of a membrane on a liquid interface with arbitrary curvatures

Zachariah S. Schrecengost, Seif Hejazine, Jordan V. Barrett +2

We study the deformation of a liquid interface with arbitrary principal curvatures by a flat circular sheet. Working first at small slopes, we determine the shape of the sheet anal…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 2 cited

Mechanical hysterons with tunable interactions of general sign

Joseph D. Paulsen

Hysterons are elementary units of hysteresis that underlie many complex behaviors of non-equilibrium matter. Because models of interacting hysterons can describe disordered matter,…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 33 cited

Mechanical memories in solids, from disorder to design

Joseph D. Paulsen, Nathan C. Keim

Solids are rigid, which means that when left undisturbed, their structures are nearly static. It follows that these structures depend on history -- but it is surprising that they h…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 4 cited

A wrinkled cylindrical shell as a tunable locking material

Pan Dong, Mengfei He, Nathan C. Keim +1

A buckled sheet offers a reservoir of material that can be unfurled at a later time. For sufficiently thin yet stiff materials, this geometric process has a striking mechanical fea…