How do bacteria maintain their shapes?
We have a new article out in PNAS featuring former student Salem Al Mosleh as […]
Thermal fluctuations in linkages and origami
New paper called “Thermal Fluctuations of Singular Bar-Joint Mechanisms” Manu Mannattil, J. M. Schwarz, and Christian […]
Columnar liquid crystals as (almost) a gauge theory
Mechanics of Metric Frustration in Contorted Filament Bundles: From Local Symmetry to Columnar Elasticity Daria […]
Nonlinear mechanisms and topology
What factors govern how mechanisms behave? New paper! Topology in non-linear mechanical systems, PRL 127, […]