2 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Curved Odd Elasticity
Yuan Zhou, Lazaros Tsaloukidis, Jack Binysh +4
Living materials such as membranes, cytoskeletal assemblies, cell collectives and tissues can often be described as active solids---materials that are energized from within, with e…
cond-mat.soft2024
Selective excitation of work-generating cycles in nonreciprocal living solids
Yu-Chen Chao, Shreyas Gokhale, Lisa Lin +8
Emergent nonreciprocity in active matter drives the formation of self-organized states that transcend the behaviors of equilibrium systems. Integrating experiments, theory and simu…