The atomic-scale structural rearrangement of glasses on applied stress is central to the
understanding of their macroscopic mechanical properties and behaviour. However …

Molecular dynamics computer simulations of a polydisperse soft-sphere model under shear
are presented. The starting point for these simulations are deeply supercooled samples far …

Customarily, crystalline solids are defined to be rigid since they resist changes of shape
determined by their boundaries. However, rigid solids cannot exist in the thermodynamic …

Experiments and simulations show that when an initially defect-free rigid crystal is subjected
to deformation at a constant rate, irreversible plastic flow commences at the so-called yield …

We present a method for computing locally varying nonlinear mechanical properties in
particle simulations of amorphous solids. Plastic rearrangements outside a probed region …

We present a microscopic derivation of the laws of continuum mechanics of nonideal
ordered solids including dissipation, defect diffusion, and heat transport. The starting point is …

In complex crystals close to melting or at finite temperatures, different types of defects are
ubiquitous and their role becomes relevant in the mechanical response of these solids …

We report confocal microscopy experiments of electric-field-driven crystal-crystal
transformations in microgel colloids with varying particle softness. The transformation …

Binding of small molecules to proteins often involves large conformational changes in the
latter, which open up pathways to the binding site. Observing and pinpointing these rare …

The scale-rich spatiotemporal organization in biological membranes has its origin in the
differential inter-and intra-molecular interactions among their constituents. In this work, we …