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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…
Non-reciprocal breathing solitons
Jonas Veenstra, Oleksandr Gamayun, Martin Brandenbourger +4
Breathing solitons consist of a fast beating wave within a compact envelope of stable shape and velocity. They can propagate and carry information and energy in a variety of contex…
Limit cycles turn active matter into robots
Martin Brandenbourger, Colin Scheibner, Jonas Veenstra +2
Active matter composed of energy-generating microscopic constituents is a promising platform to create autonomous functional materials. However, the very presence of these microsco…
Self-oscillation and Synchronisation Transitions in Elasto-Active Structures
Ellen Zheng, Martin Brandenbourger, Louis Robinet +3
The interplay between activity and elasticity often found in active and living systems triggers a plethora of autonomous behaviors ranging from self-assembly and collective motion…
Tuning flow asymmetry with bio-inspired soft leaflets
Martin Brandenbourger, Adrien Dangremont, Rudolf Sprik +1
In Nature, liquids often circulate in channels textured with leaflets, cilia or porous walls that deform with the flow. These soft structures are optimized to passively control flo…
Elastogranular Mechanics: Buckling, Jamming, and Structure Formation
David J. Schunter, Martin Brandenbourger, Sophia Perriseau +1
Confinement of a slender body into a granular array induces stress localization in the geometrically nonlinear structure, and jamming, reordering, and vertical dislocation of the s…