I uploaded a new paper titled "SP Timoshenko and America".

Will be appreciative for readers' comments.

Thanks,

Isaac Elishakoff

Dear colleagues,

Here is our recently published review article about hydrogel adhesion. Hydrogel adhesion has undergone transformative advances in the last few years. This review article describes these advances, and outlooks future opportunities.

Title: Hydrogel Adhesion: A Supramolecular Synergy of Chemistry, Topology, and Mechanics

Authors: Jiawei Yang, Ruobing Bai, Baohong Chen, Zhigang Suo*

Abstract

I would like to share the codes required to perform an end-to-end molecular dynamics simulation, which will be useful to the novice researchers in the filed of atomistic simulations. I focus on simulating uniaxial tensile tests of a graphene sample in the LAMMPS molecular dynamics simulator, and I have attached two MATLAB scripts to create the input files for LAMMPS and to extract data from the LAMMPS output file.

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