Defect Positioning in Combinatorial Metamaterials combined rigorous mathematical analysis with Yotam Feldman and Guy Cohen’s ability to translate our questions on mechanical incompatibility within the metamaterial to a constraint satisfaction problem.

Breaking Mechanical Holography in Combinatorial Metamaterials started from Naomi Spiro’s undergraduate summer project and Ofri Palti’s highschool final project. Breaking the link between the lattice's boundary & inside allows to design deformation texture on the entire boundary.

Our two sister papers on combinatorial metamaterials published today in @physrevresearch.bsky.social, a result of a fantastic SKCM2 collaboration with Chaviva Sirote-Katz at Tel Aviv and Tamás Kálmán at Tokyo shokef.tau.ac.il

Nothing like posting on the arXiv during the APS March Meeting the paper that you're about to present in your talk:
Combinatorial Design of Floppy Modes and Frustrated Loops in Metamaterials (fun work with Wenfeng Liu, Tomer Sigalov & Corentin Coulais) arxiv.org/abs/2503.12867

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2) Defect Positioning in Combinatorial Metamaterials – for most block types we can position defects anywhere we want in 2D and in 3D, but with some we can only get any topology of knotted defect lines, but not any geometry
arxiv.org/abs/2412.01227

Excited to share TWO new preprints:
1) Breaking Mechanical Holography in Combinatorial Metamaterials - building blocks that don't induce holographic order allow to build lots of mechanially compatible metamaterials and to design the texture (almost) on their entire boundary
arxiv.org/abs/2411.15760

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