900 citations
Counting papers with at most 25 authors, so collaboration author lists do not stand in for the people here.
- Harvard UniversityUS27 papers
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUS4 papers
- California Institute of TechnologyUS3 papers
- Institute of Materials Research and EngineeringSG3 papers
- Stanford UniversityUS3 papers
- Aalto UniversityFI2 papers
- Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFR2 papers
- GulliverFR2 papers
- Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUS2 papers
- MIT Media LabUS2 papers
- National Research CouncilLK2 papers
- New York UniversityUS2 papers
29 papers
Programming Soft Robots with Flexible Mechanical Metamaterials
Ahmad Rafsanjani, Katia Bertoldi, André R. Studart
The complex behavior of highly deformable mechanical metamaterials can substantially enhance the performance of soft robots.
Self-Organization and Artificial Life
Carlos Gershenson, Vito Trianni, Justin Werfel +1
Self-organization can be broadly defined as the ability of a system to display ordered spatio-temporal patterns solely as the result of the interactions among the system components…
Mapping the Human Body at Cellular Resolution -- The NIH Common Fund Human BioMolecular Atlas Program
Michael P Snyder, Shin Lin, Amanda Posgai +22
Transformative technologies are enabling the construction of three dimensional (3D) maps of tissues with unprecedented spatial and molecular resolution. Over the next seven years,…
Film dynamics and lubricant depletion by droplets moving on lubricated surfaces
Michael J. Kreder, Dan Daniel, Adam Tetreault +4
Lubricated surfaces have shown promise in numerous applications where impinging foreign droplets must be removed easily; however, before they can be widely adopted, the problem of…
A case study of hurdle and generalized additive models in astronomy: the escape of ionizing radiation
M. W. Hattab, R. S. de Souza, B. Ciardi +3
The dark ages of the Universe end with the formation of the first generation of stars residing in primeval galaxies. These objects were the first to produce ultraviolet ionizing ph…
Origins of liquid-repellency on structured, flat, and lubricated surfaces
Dan Daniel, Jaakko V. I. Timonen, Ruoping Li +4
There are currently three main classes of high-performance liquid-repellent surfaces: micro-/nano-structured lotus-effect superhydrophobic surfaces, flat surfaces grafted with 'liq…
Using MRI Cell Tracking to Monitor Immune Cell Recruitment in Response to a Peptide-Based Cancer Vaccine
Marie-Laurence Tremblay, Christa Davis, Chris V. Bowen +6
Purpose: MRI cell tracking can be used to monitor immune cells involved in the immunotherapy response, providing insight into the mechanism of action, temporal progression of tumou…
Learning Shape Abstractions by Assembling Volumetric Primitives
Shubham Tulsiani, Hao Su, Leonidas J. Guibas +2
We present a learning framework for abstracting complex shapes by learning to assemble objects using 3D volumetric primitives. In addition to generating simple and geometrically in…
Turing learning: a metric-free approach to inferring behavior and its application to swarms
Wei Li, Melvin Gauci, Roderich Gross
We propose Turing Learning, a novel system identification method for inferring the behavior of natural or artificial systems. Turing Learning simultaneously optimizes two populatio…
Self-sustained lift and low friction via soft lubrication
Baudouin Saintyves, Théo Jules, Thomas Salez +1
Relative motion between soft wet solids arises in a number of applications in natural and artificial settings, and invariably couples elastic deformation and fluid flow. We explore…
Liquid jet rebound upon impact on a soft gel
Dan Daniel, Xi Yao, Joanna Aizenberg
A liquid jet can stably bounce off a sufficiently soft gel, by following the contour of the dimple created upon impact. This new phenomenon is insensitive to the wetting properties…
Elastohydrodynamics of contact in adherent sheets
Andreas Carlson, Shreyas Mandre, L. Mahadevan
Adhesive contact between a thin elastic sheet and a substrate in a liquid environment arises in a range of biological, physical and technological applications. By considering the d…
Similarity and singularity in adhesive elastohydrodynamic touchdown
Andreas Carlson, L. Mahadevan
We consider the touchdown of an elastic sheet as it adheres to a wall, which has a dynamics that is limited by the viscous resistance provided by the squeeze flow of the intervenin…
Elastohydrodynamics and kinetics of protein patterning in the immunological synapse
Andreas Carlson, L. Mahadevan
The cellular basis for the adaptive immune response during antigen recognition relies on a specialized protein interface known as the immunological synapse (IS). Understanding the…
A domain-level DNA strand displacement reaction enumerator allowing arbitrary non-pseudoknotted secondary structures
Casey Grun, Karthik Sarma, Brian Wolfe +2
DNA strand displacement systems have proven themselves to be fertile substrates for the design of programmable molecular machinery and circuitry. Domain-level reaction enumerators…
Condensation on Slippery Asymmetric Bumps
Kyoo-Chul Park, Philseok Kim, Neil He +1
Bumps are omnipresent from human skin to the geological structures on planets, which offer distinct advantages in numerous phenomena including structural color, drag reduction, and…
Optimal control of plate shape with incompatible strain fields
Gareth Wyn Jones, L. Mahadevan
A flat plate can bend into a curved surface if it experiences an inhomogeneous growth field. In this article a method is described that numerically determines the optimal growth fi…
Dynamic Balance of Excitation and Inhibition in Human and Monkey Neocortex
Nima Dehghani, Adrien Peyrache, Bartosz Telenczuk +5
Balance of excitation and inhibition is a fundamental feature of in vivo network activity and is important for its computations. However, its presence in the neocortex of higher ma…
Hierarchical structural control of visual properties in self-assembled photonic-plasmonic pigments
Natalie Koay, Ian B. Burgess, Theresa M. Kay +10
We present a simple one-pot co-assembly method for the synthesis of hierarchically structured pigment particles consisting of silica inverse-opal bricks that are doped with plasmon…
Feedback induced phase transitions in active porous media
Samuel A. Ocko, L. Mahadevan
Flow through passive porous media is typically described in terms of a linear theory relating current fluxes and driving forces, in the presence of a prescribed heterogeneous perme…
Spatial Information in Large-Scale Neural Recordings
Thaddeus R. Cybulski, Joshua I. Glaser, Adam H. Marblestone +4
A central issue in neural recording is that of distinguishing the activities of many neurons. Here, we develop a framework, based on Fisher information, to quantify how separable a…
Digital instability of a confined elastic meniscus
John S. Biggins, Baudouin Saintyves, Zhiyan Wei +2
Thin soft elastic layers serving as joints between relatively rigid bodies may function as sealants, thermal, electrical, or mechanical insulators, bearings, or adhesives. When suc…
Physical Principles for Scalable Neural Recording
Adam H. Marblestone, Bradley M. Zamft, Yael G. Maguire +15
Simultaneously measuring the activities of all neurons in a mammalian brain at millisecond resolution is a challenge beyond the limits of existing techniques in neuroscience. Entir…
Creating bio-inspired hierarchical 3D-2D photonic stacks via planar lithography on self-assembled inverse opals
Ian B. Burgess, Joanna Aizenberg, Marko Loncar
Structural hierarchy and complex 3D architecture are characteristics of biological photonic designs that are challenging to reproduce in synthetic materials. Top-down lithography a…