Harvard MRSEC Publications, 2018 (DMR-1420570)

IRG 1: Mechanics of Soft Materials under Large Deformation

1. Primary MRSEC support (IRG1)

   1. Hamilton, C., K. Tian, J. Bae, C. Yang, G. Alici, G.M. Spinks, Z. Suo, and J.J. Vlassak, "A soft stretchable sensor: Towards peripheral nerve signal sensing," MRS Advances 3 (28), 1597-1602 (2018)
   2. McKeon, R., R. Ostilla-Monico, A. Pumir, M.P. Brenner, and S.M. Rubinstein, "Emergence of small scales in vortex ring collisions," Physical Review Fluids 3, (10), 100509-2 (2018)
   3. McKeown, R., R. Ostilla-Monico, A. Pumir, M.P. Brenner, and S.M. Rubinstein, "Cascade leading to the emergence of small structures in vortex ring collisions," Physical Review Fluids 3 (12), 124702-124713 (2018)
   4. Morelle, X.P., W.R. Illeperuma, K. Tian, R. Bai, Z. Suo, and J.J. Vlassak, "Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels below water freezing temperature," Advanced Materials 30 (35), 1801541-8 (2018)
   5. Tian, K., J. Bae, Z. Suo, and J.J. Vlassak, "Adhesion between hydrophobic elastomer and hydrogel through hydrophillic modification and interfacial segregation," ACS Applied Materials Interfaces 10 (49), 43252-43261 (2018)

2. Partial MRSEC support (IRG1)

   1. Anbari, A., H.-T. Chien, S.S. Datta, W. Deng, D.A. Weitz, and J. Fan, "Microfluidic model porous media: Fabrication and applications," Small 14 (18), 1703575-15 (2018)
   2. Brassart, L., Q. Liu, and Z. Suo, "Mixing by shear, dilation, swap, and diffusion," Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 112, 253-272 (2018)
   3. Dillavou and S.M. Rubinstein, "Nonmonotonic aging and memory in a frictional interface," Physical Review Letters 120 (22), 224101-5 (2018)
   4. Edery, Y., D. Weitz, and S. Berg, "Surfactant variations in porous media localize capillary instabilities during Haines jumps," Physical Review Letters 120 (2), 028005-5 (2018)
   5. Gerasimidis, S., E. Virot, J.W. Hutchinson, and S.M. Rubinstein, "On establishing buckling knockdowns for imperfection-sensitive shell structures," Journal of Applied Mechanics 85 (9), 091010-15 (2018)
   6. Giometto, A., D.R. Nelson, and A. Murray, "Physical interactions reduce the power of natural selection in growing yeast colonies," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (45), 11448-11453 (2018)
   7. Goodrich, C.P., M.P. Brenner, and K. Ribbeck, "Enhanced diffusion by binding to the crosslinks of a polymer gel," Nature Communications 9 (1), 4348-4356 (2018)
   8. Guo, Y., M. Tikhonov, and M.P. Brenner, "Local growth rules can maintain metabolically efficient spatial structure throughout growth," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (14), 3593-3598 (2018)
   9. Li J., E. Weber, S. Guth-Gundel, M. Schuleit, A. Kuttler, C. Halleux, N. Accart, A. Doelemeyer, A. Basler, B. Tigani, K. Wuersch, M. Fornaro M. Kneissel, A. Stafford, B.R. Freedman, and D.J. Mooney, "Tough composite hydrogels with high loading and local release of biological drugs," Advanced Healthcare Materials 7 (9), 1701393-10 (2018)
   10. Liu, Q., G. Nian, C. Yang, S. Qu, and Z. Suo, "Bonding dissimilar polymer networks in various manufacturing processes," Nature Communications 9 (846), 1-11 (2018)
   11. Perol, T., M. Gharbi, and M. Denolle, "Convolutional neural network for earthquake detection and location," Sciences Advances 4 (2), e1700578-6 (2018)
   12. Qin, M., M. Sun, R. Bai, Y. Mao, X. Qian, D. Sikka, Y. Zhao, H.J. Qi, Z. Suo, and X. He, "Bioinspired hydrogel interferometer for adaptive coloration and chemical sensing," Advanced Materials 30 (21), 1800468-7 (2018)
   13. Srinivasan, S., I.D. Vladescu, S.A. Koehler, X. Wang, M. Mani, and S.M. Rubinstein, "Matrix production in Bacillus subtilis biofilms is localized to a propagating front," Biophysical Journal 114 (6), 1490-1498 (2018)
   14. Sun, M., R. Bai, X. Yang, J. Song, M. Qin, Z. Suo, and X. He, "Hydrogel interferometry ultrasensitive and highly selective chemical detection," Advanced Materials 30 (46), 1804916-8 (2018)
   15. Van T. Tran, X. Xu, T. Islam Mredha, J. Cui, J.J. Vlassak, and I. Jeon, "Hydrogel bowl" for cleaning oil spills on water, Water Research 145, 640 (2018)
   16. Wang, L., J. Xia, J. Li, T.L. Hagemann, J.R. Jones, E. Fraenkel, D.A. Weitz, S.-C. Zhang, A. Messing, and M.B. Feany, "Tissue and cellular rigidity and mechanosensitive signaling activation in Alexander disease," Nature Communications 9 (1), 1-14 (2018)
   17. Yang, J., R. Bai, and Z. Suo, "Topological adhesion of wet materials," Advanced Materials 30 (25), 1800671-1 (2018)
   18. Yang, C. and Z. Suo, "Hydrogel ionotronics," Nature Reviews Materials 3, 125-142 (2018)
   19. Yehya, A., Z. Yang, and J.R. Rice, "Effect of fault architecture and permeability evolution on response to fluid injection," Journal Geophysical Research, Solid Earth 123 (11), 9982-9997 (2018)
   20. Zhang, H., D. Lee, Y. Shen, Y. Miao, J. Bae, Y. Liu, J. Schroers, Y. Xiang, and J.J. Vlassak, "Combinatorial temperature resistance sensors for the analysis of phase transformations demonstrated for metallic glasses," Acta Materialia 156, 486-495 (2018)
   21. Zhang, W., X. Liu, J. Wang, J. Tang, J. Hu, T. Lu, and Z. Suo, "Fatigue of double-network hydrogels," Engineering Fracture Mechanics 187, 74-93 (2018)
   22. Zheng, J., Y. Miao, H. Zhang, S. Chen, D. Lee, R. Arróyave, and J.J. Vlassak, "Phase transformations in equiatomic CuZr shape memory thin films analyzed by differential nanocalorimetry," Acta Materialia 159, 320-331 (2018)
   23. Zwicker, D., R. Ostilla-Mónico, D.E. Lieberman, and M.P. Brenner, "Physical and geometric constraints shape the labyrinth-like nasal cavity," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (12), 2936-2941 (2018)

IRG 2: Digital Assembly of Soft Materials

1. Primary MRSEC support (IRG2)

   1. Kotikian, A., R.L. Truby, J.W. Boley, T.J. White, and J.A. Lewis, "3D printing of liquid crystal elastomeric actuators with spatially programmed nematic order, Advanced Materials 30 (10), 1706164-6 (2018)
   2. Truby, R.L., M. Wehner, A.K. Grosskopf, D.M. Vogt, S.G.M. Uzel, R.J. Wood, and J.A. Lewis, "Soft somatosensitive actuators via embedded 3D printing," Advanced Materials 30 (15), 1706383-8 (2018)
   3. van Rees, W.M., E.A. Matsumoto, A.S. Gladman, J.A. Lewis, and L. Mahadevan, "Mechanics of biomimetic 4D printed structures," Soft Matter 14 (43), 8771-8779 (2018)

2. Partial MRSEC support (IRG2)

   1. Choi, C.-H., H. Lee, and D.A. Weitz, "Rapid patterning of PDMS microfluidic device wettability using syringe-vacuum-induced segmented flow in nonplanar geometry," ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10 (4), 3170-3174 (2018)
   2. Daniel, D., J.V. Timonen, R. Li, S.J. Velling, M.J. Kreder, A. Tetreault, and J. Aizenberg, "Origins of extreme liquid repellency on structured, flat, and lubricated hydrophobic surfaces," Physical Review Letters 120 (24), 244503-5 (2018)
   3. Daniel, D., X. Yao, and J. Aizenberg, "Stable liquid jets bouncing off soft gels," Physical Review Letters 120 (2), 028006-028010 (2018)
   4. Eggersdorfer, M.L., H. Seybold, A. Ofner, D.A. Weitz, and A.R. Studart, "Wetting controls of droplet formation in step emulsification," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (38), 9479-9484 (2018)
   5. Foresti, D., K.T. Kroll, R. Amissah, F. Sillani, K.A. Homan, D. Poulikakos, and J.A. Lewis, "Acoustophoretic printing," Science Advances 4 (8), eaat1659 (2018)
   6. Gehrels, E.W., W.B. Rogers, and V.N. Manoharan, "Using DNA strand displacement to control interactions in DNA-grafted colloids," Soft Matter 14 (6), 969-984 (2018)
   7. Grosskopf, A.K., R.L. Truby, H. Kim, A. Perazzo, J.A. Lewis, and H.A. Stone, "Viscoplastic matrix materials for embedded 3D printing," ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10 (27), 23353-23361 (2018)
   8. Howell, C., A. Grinthal, S. Sunny, M. Aizenberg, and J. Aizenberg, "Designing liquid-infused surfaces for medical applications: A review," Advanced Materials 30 (50), 1802724 (2018)
   9. Kaye, B., O. Stiehl, P.J. Foster, M.J. Shelley, D.J. Needleman, and S. Fürthauer, "Measuring and modeling polymer concentration profiles near spindle boundaries argues that spindle microtubules regulate their own nucleation," New Journal of Physics 20 (5), 055012-15 (2018)
   10. Li, W., L. Zhang, X. Ge, B. Xu, W. Zhang, L. Qu, C.-H. Choi, J. Xu, A. Zhang, H. Lee, and D.A. Weitz, "Microfluidic fabrication of microparticles for biomedical applications," Chemical Society Reviews 47 (15), 5646-5683 (2018)
   11. Liu, E.Y., S. Jung, D.A. Weitz, H. Yi, and C.-H. Choi, "High-throughput double emulsion-based microfluidic production of hydrogel microspheres with tunable chemical functionalities toward biomolecular conjugation," Lab on a Chip 18 (2), 323-334 (2018)
   12. Mueller, J., J.R. Raney, K. Shea, and J.A. Lewis, "Architected lattices with high stiffness and toughness via multicore-shell 3d printing," Advanced Materials, 30 (12), 1705001-13 (2018)
   13. Rotem, A., N. Cui, S.A. Koehler, W. Lloyd Ung, Y. Tao, D.A. Weitz, C.B. Chang, H. Zhang, K. Schwab, T.R. Julian, T.J. Smith, A.B. Feldman, J.-M. Choi, J.V. Rodrigues, E.I. Shakhnovich, A.W.R. Serohijos, A.E. Fischer, J.S. Lin, J.T. Wolfe, P.M. Thielen, P.A. Demirev, S. Wu, T.S. Mehoke, A.O. Kolawole, C.E. Wobus, J.M. Pipas, and N.S. Giacobbi, "Evolution on the biophysical fitness landscape of an RNA virus", Molecular Biology and Evolution 35 (10), 2390-2400 (2018)
   14. Shi, W., J.E. Didier, D.E. Ingber, and D.A. Weitz, "Collective shape actuation of polymer double emulsions by solvent evaporation," ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10 (38), 31865-31869 (2018)
   15. Stolovicki, E., R. Ziblat, and D.A. Weitz, "Throughput enhancement of parallel step emulsifier devices by shear-free and efficient nozzle clearance," Lab on a Chip 18 (1), 132-138 (2018)
   16. Tan, R., P.J. Foster, D.J. Needleman, and R.J. McKenney, "Cooperative accumulation of dynein-dynactin at microtubule minus-ends drives microtubule network reorganization," Developmental Cell 44 (2), 233-247.e4 (2018)
   17. Wang, H.-F., R. Ran, Y. Liu, Y. Hui, B. Zeng, D. Chen, D.A. Weitz, and C.-X. Zhao, "Tumor-vasculature-on-a-chip for investigating nanoparticle extravasation and tumor accumulation," ACS Nano 12 (11), 11600-11609 (2018)
   18. Werner, J.G., B.T. Deveney, S. Nawar, and D.A. Weitz, "Dynamic mcrocapsules with rapid and reversible permeability switching," Advanced Functional Materials 28 (39), 1803385-10 (2018)

IRG 3: Controlling and Using Instabilities in Soft, Elastic, Melded-function, Non-linear Materials and Devices

1. Primary MRSEC support (IRG3)

   1. MacQueen, L.A., S.P. Sheehy, C.O. Chantre, J.F. Zimmerman, F.S. Pasqualini, X. Liu, J.A. Goss, P.H. Campbell, G.M. Gonzalez, S.-J. Park, A.K. Capulli, J.P. Ferrier, T.F. Kosar, L. Mahadevan, W.T. Pu, and K.K. Parker, "A tissue-engineered scale model of the heart ventricle," Nature Biomedical Engineering 2 (12), 930-941 (2018)
   2. Payne, C.J., E.G. Hevia, N. Phipps, A. Atalay, O. Atalay, B.R. Seo, D.J. Mooney, and C.J. Walsh, "Force control of textile-based soft wearable robots for mechanotherapy," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 5459-5465 (2018)
   3. Rafsanjani, A., Y. Zhang, B. Liu, S.M. Rubinstein, and K. Bertoldi, "Kirigami skins make a simple soft actuator crawl," Science Robotics 3 (15), eaar7555-7 (2018)
   4. Rothemund, P., A. Ainla, L. Belding, D.J. Preston, Kurihara, Z. Suo, and G.M. Whitesides, "A soft, bistable valve for autonomous control of soft actuators," Science Robotics 3 (16), 7986-10 (2018)
   5. Rothemund, P., X.P. Morelle, K. Jia, G.M. Whitesides, and Z. Suo, "A transparent membrane for active noise cancelation," Advanced Functional Materials 28 (29), 1800653-8 (2018)
   6. Sinatra, N.R., T. Ranzani, J.J. Vlassak, K.K. Parker, and R.J. Wood, "Nanofiber-reinforced soft fluidic micro-actuators," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 28 (8), 084002-11 (2018)

2. Partial MRSEC support (IRG3)

   1. Ahn, S., H.A.M. Ardoña, J.U. Lind, F. Eweje, S.L. Kim, G.M. Gonzalez, Q. Liu, J.F. Zimmerman, G. Pyrgiotakis, Z. Zhang, J. Beltran-Huarac, P. Carpinone, B.M. Moudgil, P. Demokritou, and K.K. Parker, "Mussel-inspired 3D fiber scaffolds for heart-on-a-chip toxicity studies of engineered nanomaterials," Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 410 (24), 6141-6154 (2018)
   2. Ainla, A., M.P.S. Mousavi, M.-N. Tsaloglou, J. Redston, J.G. Bell, M.T. Fernández-Abedul, and G.M. Whitesides, "Open-source potentiostat for wireless electrochemical detection with smartphones," Analytical Chemistry 90 (10), 6240-6246 (2018)
   3. Auguste, A., J. Yang, L. Jin, D. Chen, Z. Suo, and R.C. Hayward, "Formation of high aspect ratio wrinkles and ridges on elastic bilayers with small thickness contrast," Soft Matter 14 (42), 8545-8551 (2018)
   4. Baghbanzadeh, M., P.F. Pieters, L. Yuan, D. Collison, and G.M. Whitesides, "The rate of charge tunneling in EGaIn junctions is not sensitive to halogen substituents at the self-assembled monolayer//Ga2O3 interface," ACS Nano 12 (10), 10221-10230 (2018)
   5. Belding, L., B. Baytekin, H.T. Baytekin, P. Rothemund, M.S. Verma, A. Nemiroski, D. Sameoto, B.A. Grzybowski, and G.M. Whitesides, "Slit tubes for semisoft pneumatic actuators," Advanced Materials 30 (9), 1704446-10 (2018)
   6. Chantre, C.O., P.H. Campbell, H.M. Golecki, A.T. Buganza, A.K. Capulli, L.F. Deravi, S. Dauth, S.P. Sheehy, J.A. Paten, K. Gledhill, Y.S. Doucet, H.E. Abaci, S. Ahn, B.D. Pope, J.W. Ruberti, S.P. Hoerstrup, A.M. Christiano, and K.K. Parker, "Production-scale fibronectin nanofibers promote wound closure and tissue repair in a dermal mouse model," Biomaterials 166, 96-108 (2018)
   7. Cohen, T., C.U. Chan, and L. Mahadevan, "Competing failure modes in finite adhesive pads," Soft Matter 14 (10), 1771-1779 (2018)
   8. Deng, B., V. Tournat, and K. Bertoldi, "Effect of predeformation on the propagation of vector solitons in flexible mechanical metamaterials," Physical Review E 98 (5), 053001-053014 (2018)
   9. Deng, B., P. Wang, Q. He, V. Tournat, and K. Bertoldi, "Metamaterials with amplitude gaps for elastic solitons," Nature Communications 9 (1), 3410-3418 (2018)
   10. Gazzola, M., L. Dudte, A. McCormick, and L. Mahadevan, "Forward and inverse problems in the mechanics of soft filaments," Royal Society Open Science 5 (6), 171628-35 (2018)
   11. Ge, S., Y. Wang, N.J. Deshler, D.J. Preston, and G.M. Whitesides, "High-throughput density measurement using magnetic levitation," Journal of the American Chemical Society 140 (24), 7510-7518 (2018)
   12. Le Floch, P., S. Meixuanzi, J. Tang, J. Liu, and Z. Suo, "Stretchable seal," ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10 (32), 27333-27343 (2018)
   13. Li, L., A.J. Fijneman, J.A. Kaandorp, J. Aizenberg, and W.L. Noorduin, "Directed nucleation and growth by balancing local supersaturation and substrate/nucleus lattice mismatch," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (14), 3575-3580 (2018)
   14. Liu, Q. and K.K. Parker, "A viscoelastic beam theory of polymer jets with application to rotary jet spinning," Extreme Mechanics Letters 25, 37-44 (2018)
   15. Memet, E., F. Hilitski, M.A. Morris, W.J. Schwenger, Z. Dogic, and L. Mahadevan, "Microtubules soften due to cross-sectional flattening," eLife 7, e34695-22 (2018)
   16. Mousavi, M.P.S., A. Ainla, E.K.W. Tan, M. K. Abd El-Rahman, Y. Yoshida, L. Yuan, H.H. Sigurslid, N. Arkan, M.C. Yip, C.K. Abrahamsson, S. Homer-Vanniasinkam, and G.M. Whitesides, "Ion sensing with thread-based potentiometric electrodes," Lab on a Chip 18 (15), 2279-2290 (2018)
   17. Ouchi, T., J. Yang, Z. Suo, and R.C. Hayward, "Effects of stiff film pattern geometry on surface buckling instabilities of elastic bilayers," ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10 (27), 23406-23413 (2018)
   18. Pasqualini, F.S., A. Agarwal, B.B. O'Connor, Q. Liu, S.P. Sheehy, and K.K. Parker, "Traction force microscopy of engineered cardiac tissues," PLOS ONE 13 (3), e0194706-14 (2018)
   19. Semenov, S.N., L. Belding, B.J. Cafferty, M.P.S. Mousavi, A.M. Finogenova, R.S. Cruz, E.V. Skorb, and G.M. Whitesides, "Autocatalytic cycles in a copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction," Journal of the American Chemical Society 140 (32), 10221-10232 (2018)
   20. She, A., S. Zhang, S. Shian, D.R. Clarke, and F. Capasso, "Large area metalenses: Design, characterization, and mass manufacturing," Optics Express 26 (2), 1573-1585 (2018)
   21. She, A., S. Zhang, S. Shian, D.R. Clarke, and F. Capasso, "Adaptive metalenses with simultaneous electrical control of focal length, astigmatism, and shift," Science Advances 4 (2), eaap9957 (2018)
   22. Shian, S., P. Kjeer, and D.R. Clarke, "Electric-field induced surface instabilities of soft dielectrics and their effects on optical transmittance and scattering," Journal of Applied Physics 123 (11), 113105 (2018)
   23. Tsaloglou, M.-N., A. Nemiroski, G. Camci-Unal, D.C. Christodouleas, L.P. Murray, J.T. Connelly, and G.M. Whitesides, "Handheld isothermal amplification and electrochemical detection of DNA in resource-limited settings," Analytical Biochemistry 543, 116-121 (2018)
   24. Whitesides, G.M., "Soft Robotics," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 57 (16), 4258-4273 (2018)

Seed

1. Primary MRSEC support (Seed)

   1. Gottesman, O., J. Andrejevic, C.H. Rycroft, and S.M. Rubinstein, "A state variable for crumpled thin sheets," Communications Physics 1 (1), 70-77 (2018)
   2. Gottesman, O., E. Vouga, S.M. Rubinstein, Shmuel, and L. Mahadevan, "Localized patterns in crushed conical shells," Europhysics Letters 124 (1), 14005-6 (2018)
   3. Weber, C.A., C.H. Rycroft, and L. Mahadevan, "Differential activity-driven instabilities in biphasic active matter," Physical Review Letters 20 (24), 248003-10 (2018)

2. Partial MRSEC support (Seed)

   1. Amir, A. and N.Q. Balaban, "Learning from noise: How observing stochasticity may aid microbiology," Trends in Microbiology 26 (4), 376-385 (2018)
   2. Chung, J.Y., A. Vaziri, and L. Mahadevan, "Reprogrammable Braille on an elastic shell," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (29), 7509-7514 (2018)
   3. Eun, Y.-J., P.-Y. Ho, M. Kim, S. LaRussa, L. Robert, L.D. Renner, A. Schmid, E. Garner, and A. Amir, "Archaeal cells share common size control with bacteria despite noisier growth and division," Nature Microbiology 3 (2), 148-154 (2018)
   4. Ho, P.-Y., J. Lin, and A. Amir, "Modeling cell size regulation: From single-cell level statistics to molecular mechanisms and population level effects," Annual Review of Biophysics 47, 251-271 (2018)
   5. Lin, J. and A. Amir, "Homeostasis of protein and mRNA concentrations in growing cells," Nature Communications, 9 (1), 1-11 (2018)
   6. Upadhyaya, N. and A. Amir, "Disorder engineering: From structural coloration to acoustic filters," Physical Review Materials 2 (7), 075201-8 (2018)
   7. Zhang, H., N. Cui, Y. Cai, F. Lei, and D.A. Weitz, "Single-cell sequencing leads a new era of profiling transcriptomic landscape," Journal of Bio-X Research 1 (1), 2-6 (2018)