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2024. Minimal actuation and control of a soft hydrogel swimmer from flutter instability. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 191:105753.
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2024. Two-photon polymerization 3D-printing of micro-scale neuronal cell culture devices. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 208:e66142.
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2023. Flutter instability in solids and structures, with a view on biomechanics and metamaterials. Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 479:20230523.
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2023. Nonreciprocal oscillations of polyelectrolyte gel filaments subject to a steady and uniform electric field. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 173:105225.
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2022. Optimal design of planar shapes with active materials. Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 478:20220256.
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2022. Transient shape morphing of active gel plates: Geometry and physics. Soft Matter. 18(31):5867-5876.
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2021. The biomechanical role of extra-axonemal structures in shaping the flagellar beat of Euglena gracilis. eLife. 10:e58610
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2021. How Euglena gracilis swims: Flow field reconstruction and analysis.. Physical Review E. 103:023102.
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2021. Nutations in growing plant shoots as a morphoelastic flutter instability. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. 379:20200116.
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2021. Nutations in plant shoots: Endogenous and exogenous factors in the presence of mechanical deformations. Frontiers in Plant Science - Plant Biophysics and Modeling. 12:371.
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2021. Rods coiling about a rigid constraint: Helices and perversions. Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 477:20200817.
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2020. Mechanics of axisymmetric sheets of interlocking and slidable rods. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 141:103969.
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2020. Morphable structures from unicellular organisms with active, shape-shifting envelopes: Variations on a theme by Gauss. International Journal of Non–Linear Mechanics. 118:103278.
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2020. 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. A theoretical study on the transient morphing of linear poroelastic plates. Journal of Applied Mechanics. In press
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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. 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. 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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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.
