5 papers
Mechano-lithography: stress anisotropy driven nematic order in growing three-dimensional bacterial biofilms
Changhao Li, Japinder Nijjer, Luyi Feng +3
Living active collectives have evolved with remarkable self-patterning ability to meet the physical and biological constraints for growth and survival. However, how complex multice…
Biofilms as self-shaping growing nematics
Japinder Nijjer, Mrityunjay Kothari, Changhao Li +7
Active nematics are the nonequilibrium analog of passive liquid crystals in which anisotropic units consume free energy to drive emergent behavior. Similar to liquid crystal (LC) m…
Biofilm self-patterning: mechanical forces drive a reorientation cascade
Japinder Nijjer, Changhao Li, Qiuting Zhang +3
In growing active matter systems, a large collection of engineered or living autonomous units metabolize free energy and create order at different length scales as they proliferate…
Three-dimensional transformable modular kirigami based programmable architected materials
Yanbin Li, Qiuting Zhang, Yaoye Hong +1
Metamaterials achieve unprecedented properties from designed architected structures. However, they are often constructed from a single repeating building block that exhibits monoto…
Switchable Adhesion Actuator for Amphibious Climbing Soft Robot
Yichao Tang, Qiuting Zhang, Gaojian Lin +1
Climbing soft robots are of tremendous interest in both science and engineering due to their potential applications in intelligent surveillance, inspection, maintenance, and detect…