Mechanical memories in solids, from disorder to design

JD Paulsen, NC Keim - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Solids are rigid, which means that when left undisturbed, their structures are nearly static. It
follows that these structures depend on history—but it is surprising that they hold readable …

Soft matter roadmap

JL Barrat, E Del Gado, SU Egelhaaf… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Soft materials are usually defined as materials made of mesoscopic entities, often self-
organised, sensitive to thermal fluctuations and to weak perturbations. Archetypal examples …

Dissipation indicates memory formation in driven disordered systems

D Shohat, Y Lahini - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Disordered and amorphous materials often retain memories of perturbations they have
experienced since preparation. Studying such memories is a gateway to understanding this …

[HTML][HTML] Memory formation

SR Nagel, S Sastry, Z Zeravcic… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The recollection of events from our childhood is part of what makes each of us unique. The
storage and manipulation of memories allows us to think and to reason. Repetitive action …

Encoding Fast and Fault-Tolerant Memories in Bulk and Nanoscale Amorphous Solids

M Adhikari, R Sharma, S Karmakar - Physical Review Letters, 2025 - APS
We investigate the memory effects in cyclically deformed amorphous solids through
computer simulations. Applying oscillatory shear deformations in all orthogonal directions …

Encoding robust and fast memories in bulk and nanoscale amorphous solids

M Adhikari, R Sharma, S Karmakar - arxiv preprint arxiv:2309.10682, 2023 - arxiv.org
We investigate the memory effects under oscillatory shear deformation of amorphous solids
through computer simulations. Applications of shear deformations in all orthogonal …

Role of plasticity in the universal scaling of shear-thickening dense suspensions

S Barik, A Mohanan, S Majumdar - Rheologica Acta, 2024 - Springer
Increase in viscosity under increasing shear stress, known as shear thickening (ST), is one
of the most striking properties of dense particulate suspensions. Under appropriate …

Kovacs-like memory effect in a sheared colloidal glass: role of non-affine flows

M Mandal, A Ghadai, R Mandal, S Majumdar - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Memory effect reflects a system's ability to encode, retain and retrieve information about its
past. Such effects are essentially an out-of-equilibrium phenomenon providing insight into …

Microstructural and rheological training and memory of nanocolloidal soft glasses under cyclic shear

Y Chen, SA Rogers, S Narayanan, JL Harden… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
An intrinsic feature of disordered and out-of-equilibrium materials, such as glasses, is the
dependence of their properties on their history. An important example is rheological …

[PDF][PDF] Soft matter roadmap

K Woo, Z Bian, M Noshin - pure.tudelft.nl
Soft materials are usually defined as materials made of mesoscopic entities, often self-
organised, sensitive to thermal fluctuations and to weak perturbations. Archetypal examples …