arXiv:2607. 16583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Kirigami turns stiff sheets into compliant, shape-morphing structures, but its reliance on periodic cut patterns comes at a cost: correlated panel rotations couple extension to shear, so stretching one axis drives a parasitic shear that cannot be suppressed, and also confine anisotropic stiffness to a narrow, discrete set of responses that cannot be tuned independently.
By Haomin Yu, Hanxun Jin, Mingxuan Bi, Mohammad Jafari, Feng Helen Long, Michael J Greenberg, Farid Alisafaei, Guy Genin
arXiv:2607. 24777v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Architected metamaterials derive their functions from structure, creating vast opportunities to program physical responses through topology design.
By Haolin Li, Yuyang Miao, Menglei Li, Jinshuai Bai, Liyuan Wang, Xin Liu, Bo Gao, Jiantao Liu, Danilo Mandic, Zahra Sharif Khodaei, M. H. Aliabadi, Weiqiu Chen
arXiv:2607. 24274v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inverse design of three-dimensional porous media is central to applications in filtration, catalysis, energy storage, fuel cells, thermal management, and biomedical scaffolds, but remains challenging because many distinct pore geometries can share similar porosity or permeability while small structural changes can strongly affect transport behaviour.
By Peng Wang
arXiv:2607. 04123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inverse design of mechanical metamaterials seeks a periodic unit cell whose homogenized elastic properties meet a prescribed target, but current learning-based methods are data-hungry, mostly interpolative, and provide no guarantee that the generated design satisfies the specification.
By Yifan Wang
arXiv:2607. 07743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-organization is an emergent property of life, driven by the collective behavior of individual components acting on local information.
By Meet Barot, Daniel Berenberg, Sina Khajehabdollahi
arXiv:2607. 04680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grain growth is governed by the reduction in grain boundary energy and exhibits well-established statistical scaling laws.
By Zhihui Tian, Kang Yang, Michael Tonks, Amanda R. Krause, Joel B. Harley
arXiv:2605. 23967v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In biological systems, sensing is not performed by the brain alone: the body deforms, vibrates, and filters external stimuli before they are transduced into neural signals.
By Kyungmi Na, Yifei Li, Xinyi Yang, Bolei Deng
arXiv:2608. 02606v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fault tolerance in classical computing has traditionally relied on static strategies like hardware redundancy and error-correcting codes.
By Marcello Barylli, Gabriel B\'ena, Alexander Mordvintsev, Eleni Nisioti, Sebastian Risi
arXiv:2606. 28380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The intricate structures of biological neural networks largely emerge during development, guided by a comparatively compressed blueprint encoded in the genome.
By Mani Hamidi, Sina Khajehabdollahi, Charley M. Wu, Emmanouil Giannakakis
arXiv:2607. 13688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emerging sustainable materials increasingly rely on engineered hierarchy and microstructure to achieve control of their properties and mechanical behavior.
By J. Storm, I. B. C. M. Rocha, S. Schyck, K. Masania, F. P. van der Meer
The inverse design of physical systems governed by partial differential equations is computationally demanding due to the high dimensionality and non-convexity of design spaces. Generative models for inverse design often lack robustness and transferability, whereas evolutionary strategies are robust but struggle in high-dimensional spaces.
arXiv:2607. 17910v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming materials design by enabling de novo exploration of immense chemical spaces.
By Kinga O. Mastej, Panyalak Detrattanawichai, Hyunsoo Park, Anthony Onwuli, Masahiro Negishi, Aron Walsh