Read our special collection on Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Their Theory link.springer.com/collections/...

Our paper "Shape instabilities driven by topological defects in nematic polymer networks" adopts an elegant variational approach to model theoretically, for the first time, a wide range of topological defects in liquid crystalline networks doi.org/10.1007/s106...

The 56 new Fellows and 4 Honorary Fellows announced by the Learned Society of Wales show how Wales has answers to many of the most pressing questions we face today. www.learnedsociety.wales/welcome-to-o...

Mae’r 56 o Gymrodyr newydd a’r 4 Cymrawd Anrhydeddus sydd wedi cael eu cyhoeddi gan Gymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru yn dangos sut mae gan Gymru atebion i lawer o’r cwestiynau mwyaf dybryd sy’n ein hwynebu heddiw. www.cymdeithasddysgedig.cymru/welcome-to-o...

Excited to share our paper on the mathematical modelling of elephant trunk wrinkles, working with @langelamihai.bsky.social and @alaingoriely.bsky.social. We provide qualitative insight into surface wrinkles in elephant trunks based on nonlinear morphoelasticity. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1....

Beautiful new paper with Yang Liu and Alain Goriely, inspired by the work of Andrew K. Schulz iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

My first post here highlights our recent fundamental theoretical and computational work on "Deformation localisation in stretched liquid crystal elastomers", Mechanics of Soft Materials 6, 8 (2024) doi.org/10.1007/s425... #LCE #necking #order-parameter #shear-striping #nematic-penetration-depth