Architecture and Co-Evolution of Allosteric Materials
Le Yan, Riccardo Ravasio, Carolina Brito, Matthieu Wyart
This paper introduces a numerical scheme to evolve functional materials for specific mechanical tasks and finds that allosteric materials develop a trumpet-shaped structure with non-monotonic elastic response and soft edge modes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Feb 21, 2017Peer-reviewedBiophysics