Abstract: This work investigates the three-dimensional elastic state of inclusions in which the prescribed stress-free transformation strains or eigenstrains are spatially nonuniform and distributed either in a Gaussian, or an ...

Abstract: Recent work has highlighted how the phenomenon of flexoelectricity can masquerade as piezoelectricity. This notion can not only be exploited to create artificial piezoelectric-like materials without using piezoelectric ...

Abstract: Biological cells are almost never truly spherical, even in the absence of an obvious cause that disrupts the cell’s symmetry. Using rather simple energy considerations, we show that even though all real biological cells ...

Abstract: Recent developments in flexoelectricity, especially in nanostructures, have lead to several interesting notions such as piezoelectric materials without using piezoelectric materials and enhanced energy harvesting at the ...