3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Inverse Design of Metainterfaces for Static Friction Control: Beyond the Hertzian Limit
Jacopo Bilotto, Arnav Singhal, Joaquin Garcia-Suarez +3
Programming the static friction of mechanical interfaces is critical for soft robotics, haptics, and precision gripping. Static friction is governed by the real contact area, and s…
cond-mat.soft2026
Mapping the limits of equilibrium in sheared granular liquid crystals
Jacopo Bilotto, Martin Trulsson, Jean-François Molinari
Athermal elongated particles are well-known to follow Jeffery orbits when sheared in viscous fluids. It is less clear if similar orbits appear in dense granular flows. We show that…
cond-mat.soft2025
Shear flow of frictional spheroids: Comparison between elongated and flattened particles
Jacopo Bilotto, Martin Trulsson, Jean-François Molinari
The rheology of dense granular shear flows is influenced by friction and particle shape. We investigate numerically the impact of non-spherical particle geometries under shear on p…