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Spontaneous curvature cancellation in forced thin sheets
Tao Liang, Thomas A. Witten
In this paper we report numerically observed spontaneous vanishing of mean curvature on a developable cone made by pushing a thin elastic sheet into a circular container. We show t…
Effects of compression on the vibrational modes of marginally jammed solids
Matthieu Wyart, Leonardo E. Silbert, Sidney R. Nagel +1
Glasses have a large excess of low-frequency vibrational modes in comparison with most crystalline solids. We show that such a feature is a necessary consequence of the weak connec…
Confined Multilamellae Prefer Cylindrical Morphology
Jung-Ren Huang, Ling-Nan Zou, Thomas A. Witten
By evaporating a drop of lipid dispersion we generate the myelin morphology often seen in dissolving surfactant powders. We explain these puzzling nonequilibrium structures using a…