Mechanical metamaterials such as origami or ordered 3D printed structures have shown
tremendous applications in science and technology. However, the main disadvantage of …

Soft materials are usually defined as materials made of mesoscopic entities, often self-
organised, sensitive to thermal fluctuations and to weak perturbations. Archetypal examples …

The sequential response of driven frustrated media encodes memory effects and hidden
computational capabilities. While abstract hysteron models can capture these effects, they …

Systems with many stable configurations abound in nature, both in living and inanimate
matter, encoding a rich variety of behaviors. In equilibrium, a multistable system is more …

Hysterons are the basic units of hysteresis that underlie many of the complex behaviors of
disordered matter. Recent work has sought to develop designs for mechanical hysterons …

We study networks of coupled bistable elastic elements, recently proposed as a model for
crumpled thin sheets. The networks are poised on the verge of a localized instability, and the …

Recent studies in magnetic nanoarrays show that a variety of complex magnetic states and
textures emerge as a function of a single magnetic nanoisland's aspect ratio. We propose a …

The mechanical behavior of disordered materials such as dense suspensions, glasses or
granular materials depends on their thermal and mechanical past. Here we report the …

Bistable mechanisms are prevalent across a broad spectrum of applications due to their
ability to maintain two distinct stable states. Their energy consumption is predominantly …

Hysteresis is well understood for instance in ferromagnets, where the magnetization does
not depend only on the magnetic field, but also on its history (the word history comes from a …