The surge in advanced manufacturing techniques has led to a paradigm shift in the realm of
material design from developing completely new chemistry to tailoring geometry within …

Here we review recent studies of mechanical metamaterials originating from or closely
related to marginally jammed solids. Unlike previous approaches mainly focusing on the …

Materials with an irreversible response to cyclic driving exhibit an evolving internal state
which, in principle, encodes information on the driving history. Here we realize irreversible …

The nonlinear response of driven complex materials—disordered magnets, amorphous
media, and crumpled sheets—features intricate transition pathways where the system …

Crumpled systems (CSs) can be used as building blocks of mechanical metamaterials with
low sensitivity to defects. But to exploit the potential of CSs for novel applications, extensive …

Crumpling is potentially a quick and efficient way to pack sheet-like electronic devices at a
high compression ratio. However, crumpling is not applicable to conventional electronic …

While memory effects emerge from systems of wildly varying lengthscales and timescales,
the reduction of a complex system with many interacting elements into one simple enough to …

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

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

Reversible to irreversible (R-IR) transitions arise in numerous periodically driven collectively
interacting systems that, after a certain number of driving cycles, organize into a reversible …