Mechanical metamaterials are a class of artificial materials whose geometry is engineered to
have peculiar mechanical properties or programmed responses that are difficult to find in …

Allosteric regulation plays an important role in many biological processes, such as signal
transduction, transcriptional regulation, and metabolism. Allostery is rooted in the …

Memory formation in matter is a theme of broad intellectual relevance; it sits at the
interdisciplinary crossroads of physics, biology, chemistry, and computer science. Memory …

Allostery in proteins influences various biological processes such as regulation of gene
transcription and activities of enzymes and cell signaling. Computational approaches for …

The arrangements of particles and forces in granular materials have a complex organization
on multiple spatial scales that range from local structures to mesoscale and system-wide …

Evolution in time-varying environments naturally leads to adaptable biological systems that
can easily switch functionalities. Advances in the synthesis of environmentally responsive …

INTRODUCTION Information relay at the molecular level is an essential phenomenon in
numerous chemical and biological processes. A key challenge in synthetic molecular self …

Recent advances in designing metamaterials have demonstrated that global mechanical
properties of disordered spring networks can be tuned by selectively modifying only a small …

Functional soft materials, comprising colloidal and molecular building blocks that self-
organize into complex structures as a result of their tunable interactions, enable a wide array …

The architecture of mechanical metamaterials is designed to harness geometry,,,,,,
nonlinearity,,,, and topology,,,, to obtain advanced functionalities such as shape …