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The fundamental topology of cellular structures—the location, number and connectivity of nodes and compartments—can profoundly affect …

Flexible mechanical metamaterials are compliant structures engineered to achieve unique properties via the large deformation of their …

Multi-welled energy landscapes arising in shells with nonzero Gaussian curvature typically fade away as their thickness becomes larger …

Domain walls, commonly occurring at the interface of different phases in solid-state materials, have recently been harnessed at the …

Flexible mechanical metamaterials have been recently shown to support a rich nonlinear dynamic response. In particular, it has been …

Transition waves that sequentially switch bistable elements from one stable configuration to another have received significant interest …

Kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, has recently enabled the design of stretchable mechanical metamaterials that can be easily …

The unique properties of nonlinear waves have been recently exploited to enable a wide range of applications, including impact …

We investigate via a combination of experiments and numerical analyses the collision of elastic vector solitons in a chain of rigid …

Soft mechanical metamaterials can support a rich set of dynamic responses, which, to date, have received relatively little attention. …