The ideas of topology are breaking ground in origami-based metamaterials. Experiments now show that certain shapes — doughnuts included — exhibit topological bistability, and can be made to click between different topologically stable states.
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Waitukaitis, S. (2018). Clicks for doughnuts. Nature Phys., 14, 777–778. doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0160-6 |
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