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A team of researchers created Morpho, an open-source programmable environment that enables researchers and engineers to conduct shape optimization and design for soft materials. Applications can be ...

“Many things that are interesting in science and engineering are shape optimization problems,” said Tim Atherton. Here, a chiral liquid crystal membrane simulated with Morpho software. When mechanical ...

Locomotion through rolling is attractive compared to other forms of locomotion thanks to uniform designs, high degree of mobility, dynamic stability, and self-recovery from collision. Despite previous ...

When scientists develop brand new materials, they must precisely determine the ingredients, quantities, and processing methods to use. It’s kind of like creating a recipe. Before spending time and ...

The course will be self-contained but will rely on continuum-based descriptions of the physical behavior of solids (CIV_ENV 417-1, or equivalent). Soft materials appear pervasively in Nature, in ...