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 motion and intermittent cooperative rearrangements. Stock prices show qualitatively similar dynamics, whose origins also remain poorly understood. Recent […]

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 […]