Publications
Journal Publications
2026
[1]
Evolution of Physical Intelligence Across Scales
Advanced Intelligent Discovery, e202500178, 2026.
[2]
Self-supervised AI for decoding and designing disordered metamaterials
Science Advances, 12, eadx7389, 2026.
2025
[3]
Reduced Order Model for Soft Robotic Surface Based on Beam Elements
Robot, 47(5): 646-656, 2025.
[4]
Scalable jet swimmer driven by pulsatile artificial muscles and soft chamber buckling
Advanced Materials, 2503777, 2025.
[5]
Tensegrity-inspired sandwich metamaterial for reprogrammable stiffness and impact mitigation
International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 296, 110344, 2025.
[6]
Uncover Hidden Physical Information of Soft Matter by Observing Large Deformation
Advanced Science, 2414526, 2025.
[7]
[8]
Application of liquid crystal elastomers in the development of artificial muscles
Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, 40(2): 201-217, 2025.
[9]
Nonlinear mechanical properties of irregular architected materials
ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, 92(3): 031005, 2025.
2024
[10]
[11]
Quantized energy absorption of sandwiched origami ring
Extreme Mechanics Letters, 70: 102183, 2024.
[12]
Modulate stress distribution with bio-inspired irregular architected materials towards optimal tissue support
Nature Communications, 15, 4072, 2024.
[13]
Knotted artificial muscles for bio-mimetic actuation under deepwater
Advanced Materials, 2400763, 2024.
[14]
Topology optimization of irregular multiscale structures with tunable responses using a virtual growth rule
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 425: 116864, 2024.
[15]
Active compliant mechanisms for optimized actuation by LCE-based artificial muscles
Mechanics of Materials, 189:104879, 2024.
2023
[16]
Shape optimization of non-rigid origami leading to emerging bistability
Mechanics Research Communications, 132:104165, 2023.
2022
[17]
Triclinic metamaterials by tristable origami with reprogrammable frustration
Advanced Materials, 2107998, 2022.
[18]
Growth rules for irregular architected materials with programmable properties
Science, 377, 975–981, 2022.
[19]
Experimental realization of tunable Poisson’s ratio in deployable origami metamaterials
Extreme Mechanics Letters, 53:101685, 2022.
[20]
Mechanical cloak via data-driven aperiodic metamaterial design
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 119(13):e2122185119, 2022.
2021
[21]
Reprogrammable kinematic branches in tessellated origami structures
Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 13(3):031004, 2021.
[22]
Robotic surfaces with reversible, spatiotemporal control for shape morphing and object manipulation
Science Robotics, 6:eabf5116, 2021.
[23]
Bio-inspired Origami metamaterial with metastable phases through mechanical phase transitions
ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, 88(9):091002, 2021.
2020
[24]
Big influence of small random imperfections in origami-based metamaterials
Proceedings of the Royal Society – A, 476:20200236, 2020.
2019
[25]
Invariant and smooth limit of discrete geometry folded from bistable origami leading to multistable metasurfaces
Nature Communications, 10:4238, 2019.
[26]
Geometric mechanics of origami patterns exhibiting Poisson’s ratio switch by breaking mountain and valley assignment
Physical Review Letter, 122:155501, 2019.
[27]
Unraveling tensegrity tessellations for metamaterials with tunable stiffness and bandgaps
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 131:147-166, 2019.
[28]
Tensegrity topology optimization by force maximization on arbitrary ground structures
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 59(6):2041-2062, 2019.
2017
[29]
Nonlinear mechanics of non-rigid origami: An efficient computational approach
Proceedings of the Royal Society–A, 473:20170348, 2017.
[30]
Bar and hinge models for scalable analysis of origami
International Journal of Solids and Structures, 124:26-45, 2017.
[31]
Programmable Deployment of Tensegrity Structures by Stimulus-Responsive Polymers
Scientific Reports, 7:3511, 2017.
2016
[32]
Segmental multi-point linearization for parameter sensitivity approximation in reliability analysis
Structural Safety, 62:101-115, 2016.
[33]
Reliability-based topology optimization using a new method for sensitivity approximation - application to ground structures
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 54(3):553-571, 2016.
Selected Conference Proceedings
[C1]
Integrated Origami-String System
International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, 2019.
[C2]
Highly efficient nonlinear structural analysis of origami assemblages using the MERLIN2 software
Origami 7, 4:1167-1182, 2019.
[C3]
MERLIN: A MATLAB implementation to capture highly nonlinear behavior of non-rigid origami
Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the IASS, 2016.
* Corresponding author, † Equal contribution.