Publications

Curvature-induced defect unbinding and dynamics in active nematic toroids

Nat. Phys. 2017. DOI: 10.1038/nphys4276

Perry W. Ellis, Daniel J. G. Pearce, Ya-Wen Chang, Guillermo Goldsztein, Luca Giomi, Alberto Fernandez-Nieves
The emergent physics of animal locomotion

Phys. Today 2017, 70(9), 34. DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.3691

Simon Sponberg
Fire ants perpetually rebuild sinking towers

R. Soc. Open. Sci. 2017, 4, 170475. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170475

Sulisay Phonekeo, Nathan Mlot, Daria Monaenkova, David L. Hu, Craig Tovey
Honey bee hairs and pollenkitt are essential for pollen capture and removal

Bioinspiration Biomimetics 2017, 12(2), 026015. DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/aa5c6e

Guillermo J Amador, Marguerite Matherne, D'Andre Waller, Megha Mathews, Stanislav N Gorb and David L Hu
Shrinking instability of toroidal droplets

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2017, 114(11), 2871. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1619073114

Alexandros A. Fragkopoulos, Ekapop Pairam, Eric Berger, Phil N. Segre, Alberto Fernández-Nieves
Killing by Type VI secretion drives genetic phase separation and correlates with increased cooperation

Nat. Commun. 2017, 8, 14371. DOI:10.1038/ncomms14371

Luke McNally, Eryn Bernardy, Jacob Thomas, Arben Kalziqi, Jennifer Pentz, Sam P. Brown, Brian K. Hammer, Peter J. Yunker, William C. Ratcliff
Frogs use a viscoelastic tongue and non-Newtonian saliva to catch prey

J. R. Soc., Interface 2017, 14(127), 20160764. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0764

Alexis C. Noel, Hao-Yuan Guo, Mark Mandica, David L. Hu
Dynamic assembly of ultrasoft colloidal networks enables cell invasion within restrictive fibrillar polymers

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2017.  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1607350114

Alison M. Douglas, Alexandros A. Fragkopoulos, Michelle K. Gaines, L. Andrew Lyon, Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, Thomas H. Barker
Tail use improves performance on soft substrates in models of early vertebrate land locomotors

Science 2016, 353, 154-158. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf0984

Benjamin McInroe, Henry C. Astley, Chaohui Gong, Sandy M. Kawano, Perrin E. Schiebel, Jennifer M. Rieser, Howie Choset, Richard W. Blob, Daniel I. Goldman
One-pot system for synthesis, assembly, and display of functional single-span membrane proteins on oil–water interfaces

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2016, 113, 608-613. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1504992113

Peter J. Yunker, Haruichi Asahara, Kuo-Chan Hung, Corey Landry, Laura R. Arriaga, Ilke Akartuna, John Heyman, Shaorong Chong, and David A. Weitz
Self-Propelled Microswimmer Actuated by Stimuli-Sensitive Bilayered Hydrogel

ACS Macro Lett. 20154, 84–88. DOI: 10.1021/mz5007014

Svetoslav V. Nikolov, Peter D. Yeh, and Alexander Alexeev