Kavli Affiliate: Vinothan N. Manoharan | First 5 Authors: Clary Rodriguez-Cruz, Mehdi Molaei, Amruthesh Thirumalaiswamy, Klebert Feitosa, Vinothan N. Manoharan | Summary: Many soft and biological materials display so-called ‘soft glassy’ dynamics; their constituents undergo anomalous random motions and complex cooperative rearrangements. A recent simulation model of one soft glassy material, a coarsening foam, suggested […]

Kavli Affiliate: Daniel J. Needleman | First 5 Authors: Bezia Lemma, Linnea Lemma, Stephanie C. Ems-McClung, Claire E. Walczak, Zvonimir Dogic | Summary: Connecting the large-scale emergent behaviors of active materials to the microscopic properties of their constituents is a challenge due to a lack of data on the multiscale dynamics and structure of such […]

Kavli Affiliate: Ariel Amir | First 5 Authors: Ori Hachmo, Ariel Amir, , , | Summary: Transcription Factors (TFs) are proteins that regulate gene expression. The regulation mechanism is via the binding of a TF to a specific part of the gene associated with it, the TF’s target. The target of a specific TF corresponds […]

Kavli Affiliate: L. Mahadevan | First 5 Authors: Fabio Giardina, S Ganga Prasath, L Mahadevan, , | Summary: Cooperative task execution, a hallmark of eusociality, is enabled by local interactions between the agents and the environment through a dynamically evolving communication signal. Inspired by the collective behavior of social insects whose dynamics is modulated by […]

Kavli Affiliate: Vinothan N. Manoharan | First 5 Authors: Anna B. Stephenson, Ming Xiao, Victoria Hwang, Liangliang Qu, Paul A. Odorisio | Summary: Photonic balls are spheres tens of micrometers in diameter containing assemblies of nanoparticles or nanopores with a spacing comparable to the wavelength of light. When these nanoscale features are disordered, but still […]

Kavli Affiliate: L. Mahadevan | First 5 Authors: Levi H. Dudte, Gary P. T. Choi, Kaitlyn P. Becker, L. Mahadevan, | Summary: We present an additive approach for the inverse design of kirigami-based mechanical metamaterials by focusing on the design of the negative spaces instead of the kirigami tiles. By considering each negative space as […]

Kavli Affiliate: L. Mahadevan | First 5 Authors: Levi H. Dudte, Gary P. T. Choi, Kaitlyn P. Becker, L. Mahadevan, | Summary: We present an additive approach for the inverse design of kirigami-based mechanical metamaterials by focusing on the empty (negative) spaces instead of the solid tiles. By considering each negative space as a four-bar […]

Kavli Affiliate: Michael P. Brenner | First 5 Authors: Gideon Dresdner, Dmitrii Kochkov, Peter Norgaard, Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez, Jamie A. Smith | Summary: Despite their ubiquity throughout science and engineering, only a handful of partial differential equations (PDEs) have analytical, or closed-form solutions. This motivates a vast amount of classical work on numerical simulation of PDEs […]

Kavli Affiliate: Michael P. Brenner | First 5 Authors: Gideon Dresdner, Dmitrii Kochkov, Peter Norgaard, Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez, Jamie A. Smith | Summary: Despite their ubiquity throughout science and engineering, only a handful of partial differential equations (PDEs) have analytical, or closed-form solutions. This motivates a vast amount of classical work on numerical simulation of PDEs […]

Kavli Affiliate: Shmuel M. Rubinstein | First 5 Authors: Will Steinhardt, Shmuel M. Rubinstein, , , | Summary: Fractures are a critical process in how materials wear, weaken, and fail whose unpredictable behavior can have dire consequences. While the behavior of smooth cracks in ideal materials is well understood, it is assumed that for real, […]