by felice | Jan 1, 2021 | News Item
Professor Mathijssen has joined the Center for Soft and Living Matter and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor. Professor Mathijssen was previously a postdoc at Stanford University, where he was a...
by felice | Jan 1, 2021 | News Item
Congratulations to Jennifer Rieser, on becoming Assistant Professor of Physics at Emory University in January 2021. Jennifer earned her PhD at Penn in the Durian group, for work with our MRSEC on the deformation of amorphous granular packings. She now works at the...
by felice | Nov 30, 2020 | New Publication, Uncategorized
Significance It is well appreciated that many disordered materials deform their shape irreversibly (plastically) under an external load (e.g., memory foam). Here, we show that this plasticity can be exploited to train materials to develop novel elastic responses by...