2 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Mechanochemical feedback drives complex inertial dynamics in active solids
Siddhartha Sarkar, Biswarup Ash, Yueyang Wu +3
Active solids combine internal active driving with elasticity to realize states with nonequilibrium mechanics and autonomous motion. They are often studied in overdamped settings,…
cond-mat.soft2025
Robustness of stress focusing in soft lattices under topology-switching deformation
Caleb Widstrand, Xiaoming Mao, Stefano Gonella
Recent developments in topological mechanics have demonstrated the ability of Maxwell lattices to effectively focus stress along domain walls between differently polarized domains.…