The adaptability of natural organisms in altering body shapes in response to the
environment has inspired the development of artificial morphing matter. These materials …

The bistability of embedded elements provides a natural route through which to introduce
reprogrammability to elastic meta-materials. One example of this is the soft morphable sheet …

Frustration hinders ideal local interactions in systems ranging from artificial spin ices with ice
rules to mechanical metamaterials featuring regular floppy modes. While geometric …

Geometric frustration arises whenever the constituents of a physical assembly locally favor
an arrangement that cannot be realized globally. Recently, such frustrated assemblies were …

Vertex models, such as those used to describe cellular tissue, have an energy controlled by
deviations of each cell area and perimeter from target values. The constrained nonlinear …

Soft pneumatic gripping strategies are often based on pressurized actuation of structures
made of soft elastomeric materials, which limits designs in terms of size, weight, achievable …

Morphing origami has numerous potential engineering applications owing to its intrinsic
morphing features from 2D planes to 3D surfaces. However, the current 1D hinge …

Using a geometric formalism of elasticity theory we develop a systematic theoretical
framework for shaping and manipulating the energy landscape of slender solids, and …

Wood warping is a phenomenon known as a deformation in wood that occurs when
changes in moisture content cause an unevenly volumetric change due to fiber orientation …

Geometrically frustrated elastic ribbons exhibit, in many cases, significant changes in
configuration depending on the relation between their width and thickness. We show that the …