Celebrating Soft Matter’s 10th Anniversary: Toward jamming by design

Inverse methods for material design

(2014) Avni Jain et al.   AICHE JOURNAL

Thermally Tunable, Self-Healing Composites for Soft Robotic Applications

(2014) Nadia G. Cheng et al.   MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS AND ENGINEERING

Jamming of frictional particles: A nonequilibrium first-order phase transition

(2014) Matthias Grob et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Collisional model for granular impact dynamics

(2014) Abram H. Clark et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Shear thickening in concentrated suspensions: phenomenology, mechanisms and relations to jamming

(2014) Eric Brown et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Fundamental challenges in packing problems: from spherical to non-spherical particles

(2014) Adrian Baule et al.   Soft Matter

Quasi-2D dynamic jamming in cornstarch suspensions: visualization and force measurements

(2014) Ivo R. Peters et al.   Soft Matter

Aspects of jamming in two-dimensional athermal frictionless systems

(2014) C. Reichhardt et al.   Soft Matter

Evolving design rules for the inverse granular packing problem

(2014) Marc Z. Miskin et al.   Soft Matter

Evolutionary Optimization of Directed Self-Assembly of Triblock Copolymers on Chemically Patterned Substrates

(2014) Gurdaman S. Khaira et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Soft Robotics Technologies to Address Shortcomings in Today's Minimally Invasive Surgery: The STIFF-FLOP Approach

(2014) Matteo Cianchetti et al.   Soft Robotics

Soft Machines That are Resistant to Puncture and That Self Seal

(2013) Robert F. Shepherd et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Dynamic jamming fronts

(2013) S. R. Waitukaitis et al.   EPL

Optimizing Topographical Templates for Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers via Inverse Design Simulations

(2013) Adam F. Hannon et al.   NANO LETTERS

Adapting granular materials through artificial evolution

(2013) Marc Z. Miskin et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Collision dynamics of particle clusters in a two-dimensional granular gas

(2013) Justin C. Burton et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Jammed Frictional Tetrahedra are Hyperstatic

(2013) Max Neudecker et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Dynamic Fracture of Nonglassy Suspensions

(2013) Matthieu Roché et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Origin of Rigidity in Dry Granular Solids

(2013) Sumantra Sarkar et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Discontinuous Shear Thickening of Frictional Hard-Sphere Suspensions

(2013) Ryohei Seto et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Microscopic Mechanism for Shear Thickening of Non-Brownian Suspensions

(2013) Nicolas Fernandez et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Energy Loss at Propagating Jamming Fronts in Granular Gas Clusters

(2013) Justin C. Burton et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Shear shocks in fragile networks

(2013) S. Ulrich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stabilizing Liquid Drops in Nonequilibrium Shapes by the Interfacial Jamming of Nanoparticles

(2013) M. Cui et al.   SCIENCE

Evolutionary pattern design for copolymer directed self-assembly

(2013) Jian Qin et al.   Soft Matter

Particle shape effects on the stress response of granular packings

(2013) Athanasios G. Athanassiadis et al.   Soft Matter

Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics

(2013) Sangbae Kim et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Challenges and Opportunities for Design, Simulation, and Fabrication of Soft Robots

(2013) Hod Lipson   Soft Robotics

Soft Robotics: A Perspective—Current Trends and Prospects for the Future

(2013) Carmel Majidi   Soft Robotics

A Positive Pressure Universal Gripper Based on the Jamming of Granular Material

(2012) John R. Amend et al.   IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Predicting patchy particle crystals: Variable box shape simulations and evolutionary algorithms

(2012) Emanuela Bianchi et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Experimental study and modeling of polymer granular structures submitted to internal underpressure

(2012) Robert Zalewski et al.   MECHANICS OF MATERIALS

Impact-activated solidification of dense suspensions via dynamic jamming fronts

(2012) Scott R. Waitukaitis et al.   NATURE

Material computation

(2012) Philip Ball   NATURE MATERIALS

Bending and elongation effects on the random packing of curved spherocylinders

(2012) Lingyi Meng et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Strong interlocking of nonconvex particles in random packings

(2012) F. Ludewig et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Uniform shock waves in disordered granular matter

(2012) Leopoldo R. Gómez et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Organizing principles for dense packings of nonspherical hard particles: Not all shapes are created equal

(2012) Salvatore Torquato et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Entangled Granular Media

(2012) Nick Gravish et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Optimal Filling of Shapes

(2012) Carolyn L. Phillips et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Shocks near Jamming

(2012) Leopoldo R. Gómez et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Strain Stiffening in Random Packings of Entangled Granular Chains

(2012) Eric Brown et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Predictive Self-Assembly of Polyhedra into Complex Structures

(2012) P. F. Damasceno et al.   SCIENCE

Camouflage and Display for Soft Machines

(2012) S. A. Morin et al.   SCIENCE

Structural evolution of cuboidal granular media

(2012) Robert F. Shepherd et al.   Soft Matter

Phase diagram of colloidal hard superballs: from cubes via spheres to octahedra

(2012) Ran Ni et al.   Soft Matter

Ballistic performance of p-aramid fabrics impregnated with shear thickening fluid; Part II – Effect of fabric count and shot location

(2012) Jong Lyoul Park et al.   TEXTILE RESEARCH JOURNAL

How Evolutionary Crystal Structure Prediction Works—and Why

(2011) Artem R. Oganov et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Soft Robotics for Chemists

(2011) Filip Ilievski et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The role of interstitial gas in determining the impact response of granular beds

(2011) J. R. Royer et al.   EPL

On-line assembly planning for stochastically reconfigurable systems

(2011) Michael T Tolley et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH

Computational Design and Selection of Optimal Organic Photovoltaic Materials

(2011) Noel M. O’Boyle et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Improving the impact resistance performance of Kevlar fabrics using silica based shear thickening fluid

(2011) Ankita Srivastava et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING

Jamming by shear

(2011) Dapeng Bi et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary search for superhard materials: Methodology and applications to forms of carbon and TiO2

(2011) Andriy O. Lyakhov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Rheology of granular materials composed of nonconvex particles

(2011) B. Saint-Cyr et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Jamming in granular polymers

(2011) L. M. Lopatina et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Dense Regular Packings of Irregular Nonconvex Particles

(2011) Joost de Graaf et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Shape influences on the packing density of frustums

(2011) Jian Zhao et al.   POWDER TECHNOLOGY

Multigait soft robot

(2011) R. F. Shepherd et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Electrorheological response of dense strontium titanyl oxalate suspensions

(2011) Carlos S. Orellana et al.   Soft Matter

Review. Technologies for robot grippers in pick and place operations for fresh fruits and vegetables

(2011) C. Blanes et al.   SPANISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH

Application of genetic algorithm for modeling of dense packing of concrete aggregates

(2010) Konstantin Sobolev et al.   CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS

The packing properties of superellipsoids

(2010) G. W. Delaney et al.   EPL

Vacuum packed particles as flexible endoscope guides with controllable rigidity

(2010) Arjo J. Loeve et al.   GRANULAR MATTER

Maximum and minimum stable random packings of Platonic solids

(2010) Jessica Baker et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Experiments on the Random Packing of Tetrahedral Dice

(2010) Alexander Jaoshvili et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Jamming Transitions in Amorphous Packings of Frictionless Spheres Occur over a Continuous Range of Volume Fractions

(2010) Pinaki Chaudhuri et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Universal robotic gripper based on the jamming of granular material

(2010) E. Brown et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Disordered jammed packings of frictionless spheres

(2010) M. Pica Ciamarra et al.   Soft Matter

A comparison of jamming behavior in systems composed of dimer- and ellipse-shaped particles

(2010) Carl F. Schreck et al.   Soft Matter

The Jamming Transition and the Marginally Jammed Solid

(2010) Andrea J. Liu et al.   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Effect of Particle Hardness on the Penetration Behavior of Fabrics Intercalated with Dry Particles and Concentrated Particle−Fluid Suspensions

(2009) Dennis P. Kalman et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Force model considerations for glued-sphere discrete element method simulations

(2009) Madhusudhan Kodam et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE

On contact numbers in random rod packings

(2009) A. Wouterse et al.   GRANULAR MATTER

Influence of relative density on granular materials behavior: DEM simulations of triaxial tests

(2009) Christophe Salot et al.   GRANULAR MATTER

Jamming of soft particles: geometry, mechanics, scaling and isostaticity

(2009) M van Hecke   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Disordered, quasicrystalline and crystalline phases of densely packed tetrahedra

(2009) Amir Haji-Akbari et al.   NATURE

Dense packings of the Platonic and Archimedean solids

(2009) S. Torquato et al.   NATURE

Molecular dynamics simulation of complex particles in three dimensions and the study of friction due to nonconvexity

(2009) S. A. Galindo-Torres et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Dynamic effective mass of granular media and the attenuation of structure-borne sound

(2009) John Valenza et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Random packings of spiky particles: Geometry and transport properties

(2009) I. Malinouskaya et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Prediction of binary hard-sphere crystal structures

(2009) Laura Filion et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Dynamic Effective Mass of Granular Media

(2009) Chaur-Jian Hsu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Yield Stress and Shear Banding in Granular Suspensions

(2009) Abdoulaye Fall et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

The Packing of Granular Polymer Chains

(2009) L.-N. Zou et al.   SCIENCE

Random packing of model polymers: local structure, topological hindrance and universal scaling

(2009) Manuel Laso et al.   Soft Matter

Simulation of the packing of granular mixtures of non-convex particles and voids characterization

(2008) S. Rémond et al.   GRANULAR MATTER

Mechanisms for Acoustic Absorption in Dry and Weakly Wet Granular Media

(2008) Th. Brunet et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Onset of Mechanical Stability in Random Packings of Frictional Spheres

(2008) Melissa Jerkins et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Jamming Transition and New Percolation Universality Classes in Particulate Systems with Attraction

(2008) Gregg Lois et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Distinct element modelling of cubic particle packing and flow

(2008) Feras Y. Fraige et al.   POWDER TECHNOLOGY

Soft robotics: Biological inspiration, state of the art, and future research

(2008) Deepak Trivedi et al.   Applied Bionics and Biomechanics