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Wave coarsening drives time crystallization in active solids
Jonas Veenstra, Jack Binysh, Vito Seinen +6
When metals are magnetized, emulsions phase separate, or galaxies cluster, domain walls and patterns form and irremediably coarsen over time. Such coarsening is universally driven…
More is less in unpercolated active solids
Jack Binysh, Guido Baardink, Jonas Veenstra +2
A remarkable feat of active matter physics is that systems as diverse as collections of self-propelled particles, nematics mixed with molecular motors, and interacting robots can a…
Combinatorial Design of Floppy Modes and Frustrated Loops in Metamaterials
Wenfeng Liu, Tomer A. Sigalov, Corentin Coulais +1
Metamaterials are a promising platform for a range of applications, from shock absorption to mechanical computing. These functionalities typically rely on floppy modes or mechanica…
Metamaterials that learn to change shape
Yao Du, Ryan van Mastrigt, Jonas Veenstra +1
Learning to change shape is a fundamental strategy of adaptation and evolution of living organisms, from bacteria and cells to tissues and animals. Human-made materials can also ex…
Tuning the buckling sequences of metamaterials using plasticity
Wenfeng Liu, Bernard Ennis, Corentin Coulais
Material nonlinearities such as hyperelasticity, viscoelasticity, and plasticity have recently emerged as design paradigms for metamaterials based on buckling. These metamaterials…
Prospecting for Pluripotency in Metamaterial Design
Ryan van Mastrigt, Marjolein Dijkstra, Martin van Hecke +1
From self-assembly and protein folding to combinatorial metamaterials, a key challenge in material design is finding the right combination of interacting building blocks that yield…
Fracture metamaterials with on-demand crack paths enabled by bending
Lucie Domino, Mariam Beaure d'Augères, Jian Zhang +3
In many scenarios -- when we bite food or during a crash -- fracture is inevitable. Finding solutions to steer fracture to mitigate its impact or turn it into a purposeful function…
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…
Non-reciprocal topological solitons in active metamaterials
Jonas Veenstra, Oleksandr Gamayun, Xiaofei Guo +3
From protein motifs to black holes, topological solitons are pervasive nonlinear excitations that are robust and can be driven by external fields. So far, existing driving mechanis…
Leveraging yield buckling to achieve ideal shock absorbers
Wenfeng Liu, Shahram Janbaz, David Dykstra +2
The ideal shock absorber combines high stiffness with high energy absorption whilst retaining structural integrity after impact and is scalable for industrial production. So far no…
Auxetic Granular Metamaterials
Daan Haver, Daniel Acuña, Shahram Janbaz +3
The flowing, jamming and avalanche behavior of granular materials is satisfyingly universal and vexingly hard to tune: a granular flow is typically intermittent and will irremediab…
Active Solids Model: Rigid Body Motion and Shape-changing Mechanisms
Claudio Hernández-López, Paul Baconnier, Corentin Coulais +2
Active solids such as cell collectives, colloidal clusters, and active metamaterials exhibit diverse collective phenomena, ranging from rigid body motion to shape-changing mechanis…
Emergent Nonlocal Combinatorial Design Rules for Multimodal Metamaterials
Ryan van Mastrigt, Corentin Coulais, Martin van Hecke
Combinatorial mechanical metamaterials feature spatially textured soft modes that yield exotic and useful mechanical properties. While a single soft mode often can be rationally de…
Inverse design of multishape metamaterials
David M. J. Dykstra, Corentin Coulais
Multishape metamaterials exhibit more than one target shape change, e.g. the same metamaterial can have either a positive or negative Poisson's ratio. So far, multishape metamateri…
Buckling Metamaterials for Extreme Vibration Damping
David M. J. Dykstra, Coen Lenting, Alexandre Masurier +1
Damping mechanical resonances is a formidable challenge in an increasing number of applications. Many of the passive damping methods rely on using low stiffness dissipative element…
Slow kinks in dissipative kirigami
Shahram Janbaz, Corentin Coulais
Mechanical waves that travel without inertia are often encountered in nature -- e.g. motion of plants -- yet such waves remain rare in synthetic materials. Here, we discover the em…
The Extreme Mechanics of Viscoelastic Metamaterials
David M. J. Dykstra, Shahram Janbaz, Corentin Coulais
Mechanical metamaterials made of flexible building blocks can exhibit a plethora of extreme mechanical responses, such as negative elastic constants, shape-changes, programmability…
Machine Learning of Implicit Combinatorial Rules in Mechanical Metamaterials
Ryan van Mastrigt, Marjolein Dijkstra, Martin van Hecke +1
Combinatorial problems arising in puzzles, origami, and (meta)material design have rare sets of solutions, which define complex and sharply delineated boundaries in configuration s…
Non-orientable order and non-Abelian response in frustrated metamaterials
Xiaofei Guo, Marcelo Guzman, David Carpentier +2
From atomic crystals to bird flocks, most forms of order are captured by the concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking. This paradigm was challenged by the discovery of topological…
Selective and Collective Actuation in Active Solids
P. Baconnier, D. Shohat, C. Hernandèz +4
Active solids consist of elastically coupled out-of-equilibrium units performing work. They are central to autonomous processes, such as locomotion, self-oscillations and rectifica…
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…
Edible meta-atoms
André Souto, Jian Zhang, Alejandro M. Aragón +2
Metamaterials are artificial structures with unusual and superior properties that come from their carefully designed building blocks -- also called meta-atoms. Metamaterials have p…
Conformal Elasticity of Mechanism-Based Metamaterials
Michael Czajkowski, Corentin Coulais, Martin van Hecke +1
Deformations of conventional solids are described via elasticity, a classical field theory whose form is constrained by translational and rotational symmetries. However, flexible m…