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2018. A fluorescent dye method suitable for visualization of one or more rat whiskers. Bio-protocol. 8
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2017. Concurrent factors determine toughening in the hydraulic fracture of poroelastic composites. Meccanica. 52:3489-3498.
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2017. Dye-enhanced visualization of rat whiskers for behavioral studies. eLife. 6:e25290
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2017. Kinematics of flagellar swimming in Euglena gracilis: Helical trajectories and flagellar shapes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 114:13085–13090.
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2017. Large-strain poroelastic plate theory for polymer gels with applications to swelling-induced morphing of composite plates. Composites Part B: Engineering. 115:330-340.
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2017. Spontaneous morphing of equibiaxially pre-stretched elastic bilayers: the role of sample geometry. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. In press.
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2016. Continuum theory of swelling material surfaces with applications to thermo-responsive gel membranes and surface mass transport. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 89:96-109.
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2016. Motion planning and motility maps for flagellar microswimmers. The European Physical Journal E. 39:72-86.
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2016. Poroelastic toughening in polymer gels: A theoretical and numerical study. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 94:33-46.
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2015. Hydraulic fracture and toughening of a brittle layer bonded to a hydrogel. Physical Review Letters. 115:188105.
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2015. Liquid crystal elastomer strips as soft crawlers. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 84:254-272.
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2015. Motility of a model bristle-bot: A theoretical analysis. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics. 76:233-239.
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2015. A study of snake-like locomotion through the analysis of a flexible robot model. Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 471:20150054.
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2014. Crawling on directional surfaces. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics. 61:65-73.
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2014. Discrete one-dimensional crawlers on viscous substrates: achievable net displacements and their energy cost. Mechanics Research Communications. 58:73–81.
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2014. A robotic crawler exploiting directional frictional interactions: Experiments, numerics and derivation of a reduced model. Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 470:20140333.
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2014. Shape control of active surfaces inspired by the movement of euglenids. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 62:99-112.
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2013. An analysis of competing toughening mechanisms in layered and particulate solids. International Journal of Fracture. 183:241-258.
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2013. Crawlers in viscous environments: linear vs. nonlinear rheologies. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics. 56:142-147.
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2012. Behavioral study of whisker-mediated vibration sensation in rats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 109:971–976.
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2012. Crawling motility through the analysis of model locomotors: two case studies. The European Physical Journal E. 35:1-8.
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2012. Reverse engineering the euglenoid movement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 109:17874–17879.
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2011. Unsupervised quantification of whisking and head movement in freely moving rodents. Journal of Neurophysiology. 105:1950-1962.
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2011. Whisking and whisker kinematics during a texture classification task. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 366:3058-3069.
