From a soft matter perspective, order and disorder are key concepts in understanding material organization and behavior. Order usually refers to an arrangement or pattern in a system where its components, such as atoms, molecules, or unit cells, have a high level of organization or regularity. Systems with regular, structured arrangements, such as crystals [1], self-assembled supramolecular structures [2], or metamaterials with arranged unit cells [3,4] exhibit order. On the contrary, disorder is associated with structural components lacking a predictable spatial organization, such as amorphous solids [5] and many polymers [6]. In this thesis, entitled "From disorder to order: Shear rheology of macroscopically structured materials", we will deal with structural (dis)order in materials from a macroscopic perspective.
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Crumpled structures as robust disordered mechanical metamaterialsThis chapter is published in a revised version as: G. Giménez-Ribes, M. Motaghian, E. van der Linden, & M. Habibi, Crumpled structures as robust disordered mechanical metamaterials. Materials & Design, 232 (2023), 112159.