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Procedural Metamaterials: A Unified Procedural Graph for Metamaterial Design
We introduce a compact, intuitive procedural graph representation for cellular metamaterials, which are small-scale, tileable …
Liane Makatura, Bohan Wang, Yi-Lu Chen, Bolei Deng, Chris Wojtan, Bernd Bickel, Wojciech Matusik
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Nonlinear waves at the free surface of flexible mechanical metamaterials
In this Letter, we investigate the propagation of nonlinear pulses along the free surface of flexible metamaterials based on the …
Bolei Deng, Hang Shu, Jian Li, Chengyang Mo, Jordan R Raney, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi
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Inerter-based elastic metamaterials for band gap at extremely low frequency
We reveal the unique and fundamental advantage of inerter-based elastic metamaterials by a comparative study among different …
Faisal Jamil, Fei Chen, Bolei Deng, Robert G Parker, Pai Wang
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Inverse Design of Mechanical Metamaterials with Target Nonlinear Response via a Neural Accelerated Evolution Strategy
Materials with target nonlinear mechanical response can support the design of innovative soft robots, wearable devices, footwear, and …
Bolei Deng, Ahmad Zareei, Xiaoxiao Ding, James C Weaver, Chris H Rycroft, Katia Bertoldi
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Inverse Design of Mechanical Metamaterials with Target Nonlinear Response via a Neural Accelerated Evolution Strategy
Self-regulated non-reciprocal motions in single-material microstructures
Living cilia stir, sweep and steer via swirling strokes of complex bending and twisting, paired with distinct reverse arcs. Efforts to …
Shucong Li, Michael M Lerch, James T Waters, Bolei Deng, Reese S Martens, Yuxing Yao, Do Yoon Kim, Katia Bertoldi, Alison Grinthal, Anna C Balazs, Joanna Aizenberg
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Topological solitons make metamaterials crawl
In recent years, the ability to propagate topological solitons in mechanical metamaterials has unlocked unpaved paths towards potential …
Bolei Deng#, Mohamed Zanaty#, Antonio E Forte, Katia Bertoldi
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Liquid-induced topological transformations of cellular microstructures
The fundamental topology of cellular structures—the location, number and connectivity of nodes and compartments—can profoundly affect …
Shucong Li#, Bolei Deng#, Alison Grinthal, Alyssha Schneider-Yamamura, Jinliang Kang, Reese S Martens, Cathy T Zhang, Jian Li, Siqin Yu, Katia Bertoldi, Joanna Aizenberg
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Nonlinear waves in flexible mechanical metamaterials
Flexible mechanical metamaterials are compliant structures engineered to achieve unique properties via the large deformation of their …
Bolei Deng, JR Raney, K Bertoldi, Vincent Tournat
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Universally bistable shells with nonzero Gaussian curvature for two-way transition waves
Multi-welled energy landscapes arising in shells with nonzero Gaussian curvature typically fade away as their thickness becomes larger …
Nikolaos Vasios, Bolei Deng, Benjamin Gorissen, Katia Bertoldi
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Characterization, stability, and application of domain walls in flexible mechanical metamaterials
Domain walls, commonly occurring at the interface of different phases in solid-state materials, have recently been harnessed at the …
Bolei Deng#, Siqin Yu#, Antonio E. Forte, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi
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Characterization, stability, and application of domain walls in flexible mechanical metamaterials