Harvard MRSEC Publications, 2020 (DMR-1420570)

IRG 1: Mechanics of Soft Materials under Large Deformation

1. Primary MRSEC support (IRG1)

   1. Liu, J., H. Chen, X. Shi, S. Nawar, J.G Werner, G. Huang, M. Ye, D.A. Weitz, A.A. Solovev, and Y. Mei, "Hydrogel microcapsules with photocatalytic nanoparticles for removal of organic pollutants," Environmental Science: Nano 7 (2), 656-664 (2020)

2. Partial MRSEC support (IRG1)

   1. Brodribb, T.J., M. Carriqui, S. Delzon, S.A.M. McAdam, and N.M. Holbrook, "Advanced vascular function discovered in a widespread moss," Nature Plants 6 (3), 273-279 (2020)
   2. Kim, H.J., B. Chen, Z. Suo, and R.C. Hayward, R.C., "Ionoelastomer junctions between polymer networks of fixed anions and cations," Science 367 (6479), 773-776 (2020)
   3. Yang, J., R. Bai, B. Chen, and Z. Suo, "Hydrogel adhesion: A supramolecular synergy of chemistry, topology, and mechanics," Advanced Functional Materials 30 (2), 1901693 (2020)
   4. Yang, X.X., C.H. Yang, J.J. Liu, X. Yao, and Z. Suo, "Topological prime," Science China Technological Sciences 63 (7), 1314-1322 (2020)
   5. Zhou, Y., W. Zhang, J. Hu, J. Tang, C. Jin, Z. Suo, and T. Lu, "The stiffness-threshold conflict in polymer networks and a resolution," Journal of Applied Mechanics 87 (3), 031002-9 (2020)

IRG 2: Digital Assembly of Soft Materials

1. Primary MRSEC support (IRG2)

   1. Haney, B., J.G. Werner, D.A. Weitz, and S. Ramakrishnan, "Stimuli responsive Janus microgels with convertible hydrophilicity for controlled emulsion destabilization," Soft Matter 16 (15), 3613-3620 (2020)
   2. McKeown, R., R. Ostilla-Mónico, A. Pumir, M.P. Brenner, and S.M. Rubinstein, "Turbulence generation through an iterative cascade of the elliptical instability," Science Advances 6 (9), eaaz2717-8 (2020)

2. Partial MRSEC support (IRG2)

   1. Adams, L.L., D. Lee, Y. Mei, D.A. Weitz, and A.A. Solovev, "Nanoparticle-shelled catalytic bubble micromotor," Advanced Materials Interfaces 7 (4), 1901583-5 (2020)
   2. Cuddalorepatta, G.K., H. Li, D. Pantuso, and J.J. Vlassak, "Measurement of the stress-strain behavior of freestanding ultra-thin films," Materialia 9, 100502-12 (2020)
   3. Cuddalorepatta, G.K., W.M. van Rees, L. Han, D. Pantuso, L. Mahadevan, and J.J. Vlassak, "Poisson's ratio and residual strain of freestanding ultra-thin films," Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 137, 103821-16 (2020)
   4. Hwang, V., A.B. Stephenson, S. Magkiriadou, J.G. Park, and V.N. Manoharan, "Effects of multiple scattering on angle-independent structural color in disordered colloidal materials," Physical Review E 101 (1), 012614-11 (2020)
   5. Leahy, B., R. Alexander, C. Martin, S. Barkley, and V.N. Manoharan, "Large depth-of-field tracking of colloidal spheres in holographic microscopy by modeling the objective lens," Optics Express 28 (2), 1061-1075 (2020)
   6. Liu, Y., G. Yang, T. Baby, D. Chen, D.A. Weitz, and C.X. Zhao, "Stable polymer nanoparticles with exceptionally high drug loading by sequential nano precipitation," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 59 (12),4720-4728 (2020)
   7. Nawar, S., J.K. Stolaroff, C. Ye, H. Wu, F. Xin, and D.A. Weitz, "Parallelizable microfluidic dropmakers with multilayer geometry for the generation of double emulsions," Lab on a Chip 20 (1), 147-154 (2020)
   8. Sun, Z., C. Yang, M. Eggersdorfer, J. Cui, Y. Li, M. Hai, D. Chen, and D.A. Weitz, "A general strategy for one-step fabrication of biocompatible microcapsules with controlled active release," Chinese Chemical Letters 31 (1), 249-252 (2020)
   9. Wang, Y., T. Cao, J. Ko, Y. Shen, W. Zong, K. Sheng, W. Cao, S. Sun, L. Cai, Y.-L. Zhou, X.-X. Zhang, C. Zong, R. Weissleder, and D.A. Weitz, "Dissolvable polyacrylamide beads for high-throughput droplet DNA barcoding," Advanced Science 7 (8), 1903463-6 (2020)
   10. Yu, Y., S. Brandt, N.J. Nicolas, and J. Aizenberg, "Colorimetric ethanol indicator based on instantaneous, localized wetting of a photonic crystal," ACS Applied Material and Interfaces 12 (1), 1924-1929 (2020)
   11. Yuan, Y., J. Brouchon, J.M. Calvo-Calle, J. Xia, L. Sun, X. Zhang, K.L. Clayton, F. Ye, D.A. Weitz, and J.A. Heyman, "Droplet encapsulation improves accuracy of immune cell cytokine capture assays," Lab on a Chip 20 (8), 1513-1520 (2020)

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

1. Primary MRSEC support (IRG3)

   1. Chortos, A., E. Hajiesmaili, J. Morales, D.R. Clarke, and J.A. Lewis, "3D Printing of interdigitated dielectric elastomer actuators," Advanced Functional Materials 30 (1), 1907375-10 (2020)
   2. Davidson, E.C., A. Kotikian, S. Li, J. Aizenberg, and J.A. Lewis, "3D printable and reconfigurable liquid crystal elastomers with light-induced shape memory via dynamic bond exchange," Advanced Materials 32 (1), 1905682-6 (2020)
   3. Deng, B., L. Chen, D. Wei, V. Tournat, and K. Bertoldi, "Pulse-driven robot: Motion via solitary waves," Science Advances 6 (18), eaaz1166-6 (2020)
   4. Gorissen, B., D. Melancon, N. Vasios, M. Torbati, and K. Bertoldi, "Inflatable soft jumper inspired by shell snapping," Science Robotics 5 (42), eabb1967-7 (2020)
   5. Medina, E., P.E. Farrell, K. Bertoldi, and C.H. Rycroft, "Navigating the landscape of nonlinear mechanical metamaterials for advanced programmability," Physical Review B 101 (6), 064101-6 (2020)
   6. Vasios, N., A.J. Gross, S. Soifer, J.T.B. Overvelde, and K. Bertoldi, "Harnessing viscous flow to simplify the actuation of fluidic soft robots," Soft Robotics 7 (1), 1-9 (2020)

2. Partial MRSEC support (IRG3)

   1. Bar-Sinai, Y., G. Librandi, K. Bertoldi, and M. Moshe, "Geometric charges and nonlinear elasticity of two-dimensional elastic metamaterials," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (19), 10195-10202 (2020)
   2. Chen, S., G.P.T. Choi, and L. Mahadevan, "Deterministic and stochastic control of kirigami topology," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (9), 4511-4517 (2020)
   3. Deng, B., P. Wang, V. Tournat, and K. Bertoldi, "Nonlinear transition waves in free-standing bistable chains," Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 136 103661-10 (2020)
   4. Herland, A., B.M. Maoz, D. Das, M.R. Somayaji, R. Prantil-Baun, R. Novak, M. Cronce, T. Huffstater, S.S. Jeanty, M. Ingram, A. Chalkiadaki, D.B. Chou, S. Marquez, A. Delahanty, S. Jalili-Firoozinezhad, Y. Milton, A. Sontheimer-Phelps, B. Swenor, O. Levy, K.K. Parker, A. Przekwas, and D.E. Ingber, "Quantitative prediction of human pharmacokinetic responses to drugs via fluidically coupled vascularized organ chips," Nature Biomedical Engineering 4 (4), 421-436 (2020)
   5. Li, C., H. Yang, Z. Suo, and J. Tang, "Fatigue-resistant elastomers," Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 134, 103751-12 (2020)
   6. Librandi, G., E. Tubaldi, and K. Bertoldi, "Snapping of hinged arches under displacement control: Strength loss and nonreciprocity," Physical Review E 101 (5), 053004-7 (2020)
   7. MacQueen, L.A., C.G. Alver, C.O. Chantre, S. Ahn, L. Cera, G.M. Gonzalez, B.B. O'Connor, D.J. Drennan, M.M. Peters, S.E. Motta, J.J. Zimmerman, and K.K. Parker, "Muscle tissue engineering in fibrous gelatin: implications for meat analogs," npj Science of Food 3, 1-11 (2020)
   8. Novak, R., M. Ingram, S. Marquez, D. Das, A. Delahanty, A. Herland, B.M. Maoz, S.S.F. Jeanty, M.R. Somayaji, M. Burt, E. Calamari, A. Chalkiadaki, A. Cho, Y. Choe, D.B.Chou, M. Cronce, S. Dauth, T. Divic, J. Fernandez-Alcon, T. Ferrante, J. Ferrier, E.A. FitzGerald, R. Fleming, S. Jalili-Firoozinezhad, T. Grevesse, J.A. Goss, T. Hamkins-Indik, O. Henry, C. Hinojosa, T. Huffstater, K.J. Jang, V. Kujala, L. Leng, R. Mannix, Y. Milton, J. Nawroth, B.A. Nestor, C.F. Ng, B. O'Connor, T.E. Park, H. Sanchez, J. Sliz, A. Sontheimer-Phelps, B. Swenor, G. Thompson, G.J. Touloumes, Z. Tranchemontagne, N. Wen, M. Yadid, A. Bahinski, G.A. Hamilton, D. Levner, O. Levy, A. Przekwas, R. Prantil-Baun, K.K. Parker, and D.E. Ingber, "Robotic fluidic coupling and interrogation of multiple vascularized organ chips," Nature Biomedical Engineering 4, 407-420 (2020)
   9. Zareei, A., B. Deng, and K. Bertoldi, "Harnessing transition waves to realize deployable structures," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (8), 4015-4020 (2020)

Seed, including iSuperSeed

• Partial MRSEC support (Seed)

  1. Cao, T., Y. Wang, Y. Tao, L. Zhang, Y.L. Zhou, X.X. Zhang, J.A. Heyman, and D.A. Weitz, "DNAzyme-powered nucleic acid release from solid supports," Chemical Communications 56 (4), 647-650 (2020)