When deformed beyond their elastic limits, crystalline solids flow plastically via particle
rearrangements localized around structural defects. Disordered solids also flow, but without …

Fluid interfaces can be used as a platform for promoting the direct and spontaneous self-
assembly of colloidal particles, where the driving force is the reduction in interfacial energy …

Disordered materials are often out of equilibrium and evolve very slowly in a rugged and
tortuous energy landscape. This slow evolution, referred to as aging, is deemed undesirable …

A fundamental challenge regarding disordered solids is predicting macroscopic yield—the
point at which elastic behaviour changes to plastic behaviour—from the microscopic …

Disordered solids often change their elastic response as they slowly age. Using experiments
and simulations, we study how aging disordered planar networks under an applied stress …

The Preisach model has been useful as a null model for understanding memory formation in
periodically driven disordered systems. In amorphous solids, for example, the athermal …

Cyclic loading on granular packings and amorphous media exhibits a transition from
reversible elastic behavior to irreversible plasticity. The present study compares the …

Shearing a disordered or amorphous solid for many cycles with a constant strain amplitude
can anneal it, relaxing a sample to a steady state that encodes a memory of that amplitude …

In this paper we probe the structural response to oscillatory shear deformations of
polycrystalline monolayers of soft repulsive colloids with varying area fraction over a broad …

Disordered magnets, martensitic mixed crystals, and glassy solids can be irreversibly
deformed by subjecting them to external deformation. The deformation produces a smooth …