Living organisms use ions and small molecules as information carriers to communicate with
the external environment at ultralow power consumption. Inspired by biological systems …

The sequential response of driven frustrated media encodes memory effects and hidden
computational capabilities. While abstract hysteron models can capture these effects, they …

Transport networks are crucial for the functioning of natural and technological systems. We
study a mathematical model of vascular network adaptation, where the network structure …

Material nonlinearities such as hyperelasticity, viscoelasticity, and plasticity have recently
emerged as design paradigms for metamaterials based on buckling. These metamaterials …

A hitherto unexploited characteristic feature of emerging iontronic devices for information
processing is the intrinsic mobility of the medium (water) of dissolved ions in aqueous …

Multistability-induced hysteresis has been widely studied in mechanical systems, but such
behavior has proven more difficult to reproduce experimentally in flow networks. Natural flow …

Dense arrays of soft hair-like structures protruding from surfaces in contact with fluids are
ubiquitous in living systems. Fluid flows can easily deform these soft hairs which in turn …