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Defective nematogenesis
Flat sheets encoded with patterns of contraction/elongation morph into curved surfaces. If the surfaces bear Gauss curvature, the resulting actuation can be strong and powerful. We deploy the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to deduce the...
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Interview with John Chester
John Chester
Jan 01, 0001
In his April 3, 2008 interview with Kristin Malone, John Chester details his service overseas in Europe during WWII. Included are stories of interactions with German soldiers and the rules and regulations of the United States...
Published by: Winthrop University
John Hewson-a Festschrift
John Hewson
Sep 05, 2013
Dr. John Hewson's appointment to Memorial University's Henrietta Harvey Chair in May 1997 marked 37 years of distinguished service as scholar, teacher and administrator. Dr. Hewson, an APLA member since the early days of our...
John Hewson-a Festschrift
John Hewson
Sep 05, 2013
Dr. John Hewson's appointment to Memorial University's Henrietta Harvey Chair in May 1997 marked 37 years of distinguished service as scholar, teacher and administrator. Dr. Hewson, an APLA member since the early days of our...
Meniscus instabilities in thin elastic layers.
John S Biggins, L Mahadevan
Nov 20, 2018
We consider meniscus instabilities in thin elastic layers perfectly adhered to, and confined between, much stiffer bodies. When the free boundary associated with the meniscus of the elastic layer recedes into the layer, for...
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Evolving, complex topography from combining centers of Gaussian curvature.
Liquid crystal elastomers and glasses can have significant shape change determined by their director patterns. Cones deformed from circular director patterns have nontrivial Gaussian curvature localized at tips, curved...
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Curvature-driven instabilities in thin active shells.
Spontaneous material shape changes, such as swelling, growth or thermal expansion, can be used to trigger dramatic elastic instabilities in thin shells. These instabilities originate in geometric incompatibility between the...
John H. Northrop, 1925
Dr. John H. Northrop. The Dynamics of Pepsin and Trypsin Lecture delivered November 14th, 1925 Posted with permission
Pattern selection when a layer buckles on a soft substrate.
If a neo-Hookean elastic layer adhered to a neo-Hookean substrate grows equibiaxially, it will buckle into a topographic pattern. Here, we combine higher order perturbation theory and finite element numerics to predict the...
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Magnesium Nanoparticle Plasmonics.
Nanoparticles of some metals (Cu/Ag/Au) sustain oscillations of their electron cloud called localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs). These resonances can occur at optical frequencies and be driven by light, generating...
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John Bossy
Alexandra Walsham
Oct 10, 2018
John Bossy, who died on 23 October 2015 at the age of 82, had a long association with Past and Present. He became a member of the Editorial Board in 1973 and during the course of his career published a number of seminal articles...
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Interfacial metric mechanics
A flat sheet programmed with a planar pattern of spontaneous shape change will morph into a curved surface. Such metric mechanics is seen in growing biological sheets, and may be engineered in actuating soft matter sheets such...
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Opportunities and Challenges for Alternative Nanoplasmonic Metals
Materials that sustain localized surface plasmon resonances have a broad technology potential as attractive platforms for surface-enhanced spectroscopies, chemical and biological sensing, light-driven catalysis, hyperthermal...
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John “Mule” Miles
Joe G. Gonzales
Apr 01, 2020
Imagine being a 14-year-old kid doing a project for history about a topic you enjoy. My group and I decided to research the history of baseball, but more specifically, the history of the Negro League. A league that solely for...
John “Mule” Miles
Joe G. Gonzales
Apr 01, 2020
Imagine being a 14-year-old kid doing a project for history about a topic you enjoy. My group and I decided to research the history of baseball, but more specifically, the history of the Negro League. A league that solely for...
Interfacial metric mechanics
A flat sheet programmed with a planar pattern of spontaneous shape change will morph into a curved surface. Such metric mechanics is seen in growing biological sheets, and may be engineered in actuating soft matter sheets such...
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