Publications
Whisking and whisker kinematics during a texture classification task. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 366:3058-3069.
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2011. 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. Dye-enhanced visualization of rat whiskers for behavioral studies. eLife. 6:e25290
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2018. Mechanics of axisymmetric sheets of interlocking and slidable rods. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 141:103969.
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2020. Rods coiling about a rigid constraint: Helices and perversions. Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 477:20200817.
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2021. Unsupervised quantification of whisking and head movement in freely moving rodents. Journal of Neurophysiology. 105:1950-1962.
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2011. Swimming Euglena respond to confinement with a behavioural change enabling effective crawling. Nature Physics. 15:496-502.
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2019. An analysis of competing toughening mechanisms in layered and particulate solids. International Journal of Fracture. 183:241-258.
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2013. 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. Smart helical structures inspired by the pellicle of euglenids. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 123:234-246.
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2019. 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. 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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2016. On polymer network rupture in gels in the limit of very slow straining or a very slow crack propagation rate. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 136:103754.
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2020. 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. Hydraulic fracture and toughening of a brittle layer bonded to a hydrogel. Physical Review Letters. 115:188105.
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2015. 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. Concurrent factors determine toughening in the hydraulic fracture of poroelastic composites. Meccanica. 52:3489-3498.
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2017. Two-photon polymerization 3D-printing of micro-scale neuronal cell culture devices. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 208:e66142.
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2024. How Euglena gracilis swims: Flow field reconstruction and analysis.. Physical Review E. 103:023102.
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2021. Crawling on directional surfaces. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics. 61:65-73.
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2014. Crawlers in viscous environments: linear vs. nonlinear rheologies. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics. 56:142-147.
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2013. Liquid crystal elastomer strips as soft crawlers. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 84:254-272.
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2015. Crawling motility through the analysis of model locomotors: two case studies. The European Physical Journal E. 35:1-8.
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2012. Transient shape morphing of active gel plates: Geometry and physics. Soft Matter. 18(31):5867-5876.
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