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• Contact loss in all solid-state Li-ion batteries via deposition of impurities

  Sundeep Vema, James Gott, Hao Yin, Ashley Roach, Geoff West, Norman Fleck, Vikram Deshpande, Clare Grey

  • Lithium metal
  • solid electrolyte
  • contact loss
  • impurities
  • voids

  Downloads: 9 - Submitted 2026-05-08 - Posted 2026-05-08

  • Main paper and SI

• Finite-width adiabatic shear banding and dislocation patterning in mesoscale polycrystalline aggregates

  Siddharth Singh, Rajat Arora, Janith Wanni, Charles Adkins, Raymond Rasmussen, Noah Schmelzer, Dan Thoma, Curt Bronkhorst, Amit Acharya

  Downloads: 17 - Submitted 2026-05-07 - Posted 2026-05-08 - Versions: 2

  • ASB_cmu_ceesem_compressed.pdf

• Dynamic Mechanical Response of Spinodal Architectures Across Length and Time Scales

  Vatsa Gandhi, Rishi Kommalapati, Carlos Portela, Vikram Deshpande

  Downloads: 23 - Submitted 2026-05-06 - Posted 2026-05-06

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• Dynamic micromagnetism a la Ericksen-Leslie, and the constrained polar continuum mechanics of hard magnetic soft materials

  Amit Acharya, Siladitya Pal

  Downloads: 11 - Submitted 2026-05-06 - Posted 2026-05-06

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• Deformation-induced domains in silicone rubber

  Mirac Onur Bozkurt, Zahra Hooshmand-Ahoor, Shuvrangsu Das, Vikram S. Deshpande

  • Phase formation
  • Hyperelasticity
  • Rubber
  • X-ray observations

  Downloads: 18 - Submitted 2026-05-05 - Posted 2026-05-05

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• Rational Mechanics of Material Strength in Brittle Solids

  Arash Yavari, Aditya Kumar

  Downloads: 18 - Submitted 2026-05-05 - Posted 2026-05-05

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• Cure-induced viscoelastic effects in in-air photopolymerized droplets for microfluidic droplet-based 3D printing

  Saquib Rouf, Johnny Moughames, Arnaud Bertsch, H. Jerry Qi, Frédéric DEMOLY

  • Microdroplet
  • Photopolymerization
  • Viscoelasticity
  • Numerical modeling
  • 3D printing

  Downloads: 44 - Submitted 2026-04-29 - Posted 2026-04-29

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• Stress-driven sliding of asymmetric grain boundaries

  Kunqing Ding, Ying Zhang, Lihua Wang, Xiaodong Han, Ting Zhu

  • grain boundary
  • molecular dynamics
  • dislocation
  • mechanical behavior

  Downloads: 25 - Submitted 2026-04-27 - Posted 2026-04-27

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• Rise and fall of void population governs the porous-to-solid transition in soft granular materials

  Jyoti Sonawane, Srinivas Selvaraju, Priyanka Nayar, Prashant Purohit, Shailendra Joshi

  Downloads: 50 - Submitted 2026-04-23 - Posted 2026-04-23

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• Vibration-Assisted Fabrication of Thin Shells with Spatially Distributed Imperfections

  Ilyes Krida, Jacob Tang, Leo Mangalath, Daniel Floryan, Tian Chen

  Downloads: 33 - Submitted 2026-04-17 - Posted 2026-04-17

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