Highlights•Jamming phenomenon in granular hydrogels enables microporosity and
injectability.•Heterogeneous combinations of microgels produce complex, multifunctional …

In 1989, Sir Sam Edwards made the visionary proposition to treat jammed granular materials
using a volume ensemble of equiprobable jammed states in analogy to thermal equilibrium …

The formation of the biophotonic gyroid material in butterfly wing scales is an exceptional
feat of evolutionary engineering of functional nanostructures. It is hypothesized that this …

The organization and shape of the microstructural elements of trabecular bone govern its
physical properties, are implicated in bone disease, and serve as blueprints for biomaterial …

We examine the signatures of internal structure emerged from quasistatic shear responses
of granular materials based on three-dimensional discrete element simulations. Granular …

Starting from three-dimensional volume data of a granular packing, as, eg, obtained by X-ray
Computed Tomography, we discuss methods to first detect the individual particles in the …

Hyperuniformity characterizes a state of matter that is poised at a critical point at which
density or volume-fraction fluctuations are anomalously suppressed at infinite wavelengths …

Cellular materials, especially foams, are widely used in several applications because of their
special mechanical, electrical and thermal properties. Their properties are determined by …

We determine the site and bond percolation thresholds for a system of disordered jammed
sphere packings in the maximally random jammed state, generated by the Torquato–Jiao …

The internal structure of a sheared assembly of monodisperse ellipsoids is investigated
using three-dimensional Voronoi analysis. The discrete element method is employed to …