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Rigidity percolation by next-nearest-neighbor braces on generic and regular isostatic lattices
Leyou Zhang, D. Zeb Rocklin, Bryan Gin-ge Chen +1
We study rigidity percolation transitions in two-dimensional central-force isostatic lattices, including the square and the kagome lattices, as next-nearest-neighbor bonds ("braces…
Mechanical instability at finite temperature
Xiaoming Mao, Anton Souslov, Carlos I. Mendoza +1
Many physical systems including lattices near structural phase transitions, glasses, jammed solids, and bio-polymer gels have coordination numbers that place them at the edge of me…
Self-assembly of three-dimensional open structures using patchy colloidal particles
D. Zeb Rocklin, Xiaoming Mao
Open structures can display a number of unusual properties, including a negative Poisson's ratio, negative thermal expansion, and holographic elasticity, and have many interesting…
Alignment and Nonlinear Elasticity in Biopolymer Gels
Jingchen Feng, Herbert Levine, Xiaoming Mao +1
We present a Landau type theory for the non-linear elasticity of biopolymer gels with a part of the order parameter describing induced nematic order of fibers in the gel. We attrib…