The cell, as the most fundamental unit of life, is a microcosm of biology in which the
confluence of nearly all aspects of classical physics (mechanics, statistical physics …

The ability of a material to convert electrical stimuli into mechanical deformation, ie
piezoelectricity, is a remarkable property of a rather small subset of insulating materials. The …

Materials that generate electrical signals upon exposure to a well-controlled stimuli are high
desirable. In that context, magnetoelectrics are unusual in the sense that the stimulus may …

A rate-(in) dependent constitutive model for porous single crystals with arbitrary crystal
anisotropy (eg, FCC, BCC, HCP, etc.) containing general ellipsoidal voids is developed. The …

Extensive experiments over the decades unequivocally point to a pronounced scale-
dependency of plastic deformation in metals. This observation is fairly general, and broadly …

Re-chargeable batteries are an important element in the solution to the future of portable
energy storage. In that context, electrolytes play a critical role in the adjudication of a …

The quasicontinuum (QC) method coarse-grains crystalline atomic ensembles in order to
bridge the scales from individual atoms to the micro-and mesoscales. A crucial cornerstone …

Polymeric materials that couple deformation and electrostatics have the potential for use in
soft sensors and actuators with applications ranging from robotic, biomedical, energy …

A multiscale analysis of the electromechanical coupling in elastic dielectrics is conducted,
starting from the discrete monomer level through the polymer chain and up to the …

Dielectric elastomers (DEs) that couple deformation and electrostatics have the potential for
use in soft sensors and actuators with applications ranging from robotic, biomedical, energy …