Movie S5.

The same heterogeneous system of Movie S4 but now with a pulse initiated in the stiff region on the right. The pulse has sufficient energy to pass through the interface and through the soft region on the left.

Stable propagation of mechanical signals in soft media using stored elastic energy

Jordan R. Raney, Neel Nadkarni, Chiara Daraio, Dennis M. Kochmann, Jennifer A. Lewis, and Katia Bertoldi

PNAS. 2016. 113:9722-9727 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1604838113