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Topological mechanics in quasicrystals
Di Zhou, Leyou Zhang, Xiaoming Mao
We study topological mechanics in two-dimensional quasicrystalline parallelogram tilings. Topological mechanics has been studied intensively in periodic lattices in the past a few…
Jamming as a Multicritical Point
Danilo B. Liarte, Xiaoming Mao, Olaf Stenull +1
The discontinuous jump in the bulk modulus at the jamming transition is a consequence of the formation of a critical contact network of spheres that resists compression. We int…
Elasticity of colloidal gels: structural heterogeneity, foppy modes, and rigidity
D. Zeb Rocklin, Lilian C. Hsiao, Megan Szakasits +2
Rheological measurements of model colloidal gels reveal that large variations in the shear moduli as colloidal volume-fraction changes are not reflected by simple structural parame…
Random Walker Models for Durotaxis
Charles R. Doering, Xiaoming Mao, Leonard M. Sander
Motile biological cells in tissue often display the phenomenon of durotaxis, i.e. they tend to move towards stiffer parts of substrate tissue. The mechanism for this behavior is no…
Edge Modes and Asymmetric Wave Transport in Topological Lattices: Experimental Characterization at Finite Frequencies
Jihong Ma, Di Zhou, Kai Sun +2
Although topological mechanical metamaterials have been extensively studied from a theoretical perspective, their experimental characterization has been lagging. To address this sh…
Capillary-driven binding of thin triangular prisms at fluid interfaces
Joseph A. Ferrar, Deshpreet S. Bedi, Shangnan Zhou +3
We observe capillary-driven binding between thin, equilateral triangular prisms at a flat air-water interface. The edge length of the equilateral triangle face is 120 , and the…