BiophysicsProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
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.
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1615536114