Publications

2019
Vasios N, Narang Y, Aktas B, Howe R, Bertoldi K. Numerical Analysis of Periodic Laminar and Fibrous Media Undergoing a Jamming Transition. European Journal of Mechanics \ A Solids. 2019;75 :322-329.
Kim SY, Baines R, Booth J, Vasios N, Bertoldi K, Kramer-Bottiglio R. Reconfigurable Soft Body Trajectories using Unidirectionally Stretchable Composite Laminae. Nature Communications. 2019;10 :3464.
Vasios N, Gross AJ, Soifer S, Overvelde JTB, Bertoldi K. Harnessing Viscous Flow to Simplify the Actuation of Fluidic Soft Robots. Soft Robotics. 2019 :10.1089/soro.2018.0149. Publisher's Version
2017
Boatti E, Vasios N, Bertoldi K. Origami Metamaterials for Tunable Thermal Expansion. Advanced Materials. 2017;29 (26). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Materials with engineered thermal expansion, capable of achieving targeted area/volume changes in response to variations in temperature, are important for a number of aerospace, optical, energy, and microelectronic applications. While most of the proposed structures with engineered coefficient of thermal expansion consist of bi-material 2D or 3D lattices, here it is shown that origami metamaterials also provide a platform for the design of systems with a wide range of thermal expansion coefficients. Experiments and simulations are combined to demonstrate that by tuning the geometrical parameters of the origami structure and the arrangement of plates and creases, an extremely broad range of thermal expansion coefficients can be obtained. Differently from all previously reported systems, the proposed structure is tunable in situ and nonporous.

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