Welcome 👋 A brief explanation of the project…

Selected publications:
1. Bolei Deng, Jordan R. Raney, Vincent Tournat, K. Bertoldi (2017). Elastic Vector Solitons in Soft Architected Materials. Physical Review Letters.
2. Bolei Deng, Pai Wang, Qi He, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi (2018). Metamaterials with amplitude gaps for elastic solitons. Nature Communications.
3. Bolei Deng, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi (2018). Effect of predeformation on the propagation of vector solitons in flexible mechanical metamaterials. Physical Review E.
4. Bolei Deng, Vincent Tournat, Pai Wang, Katia Bertoldi (2019). Anomalous Collisions of Elastic Vector Solitons in Mechanical Metamaterials. Physical Review Letters.
5. Bolei Deng#, Chengyang Mo#, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi, Jordan R. Raney (2019). Focusing and Mode Separation of Elastic Vector Solitons in a 2D Soft Mechanical Metamaterial. Physical Review Letters.
6. Bolei Deng, Yuning Zhang, Qi He, Vincent Tournat, Pai Wang, Katia Bertoldi (2019). Propagation of elastic solitons in chains of pre-deformed beams. New Journal of Physics.
7. Bolei Deng#, Jian Li#, Vincent Tournat, Prashant K. Purohit, Katia Bertoldi (2021). Dynamics of mechanical metamaterials, A framework to connect phonons, nonlinear periodic waves and solitons. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
8. Bolei Deng, JR Raney, K Bertoldi, Vincent Tournat (2021). Nonlinear waves in flexible mechanical metamaterials. Journal of Applied Physics.

Welcome 👋 A brief explanation of the project…

Selected publications:
1. Bolei Deng#, Siqin Yu#, Antonio E. Forte, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi (2020). Characterization, stability, and application of domain walls in flexible mechanical metamaterials. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2. Bolei Deng, Pai Wang, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi (2019). Nonlinear Transition Waves in Free-standing Bistable Chains. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
3. Ahmad Zareei, Bolei Deng, Katia Bertoldi (2021). Harnessing transition waves to realize deployable structures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
4. Nikolaos Vasios, Bolei Deng, Benjamin Gorissen, Katia Bertoldi (2021). Universally bistable shells with nonzero Gaussian curvature for two-way transition waves. Nature Communications.
5. Ahmad Rafsanjani, Lishuai Jin, Bolei Deng, Katia Bertoldi (2019). Propagation of pop ups in kirigami shells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Welcome 👋 A brief explanation of the project…

Selected publications:
1. Shucong Li#, Bolei Deng#, Alison Grinthal, Alyssha Schneider-Yamamura, Jinliang Kang, Reese S Martens, Cathy T Zhang, Jian Li, Siqin Yu, Katia Bertoldi, Joanna Aizenberg (2021). Liquid-induced topological transformations of cellular microstructures. Nature.
2. Shucong Li, Michael M Lerch, James T Waters, Bolei Deng, Reese S Martens, Yuxing Yao, Do Yoon Kim, Katia Bertoldi, Alison Grinthal, Anna C Balazs, Joanna Aizenberg (2022). Self-regulated non-reciprocal motions in single-material microstructures. Nature.

Selected publications:
1. Bolei Deng*, Ahmad Zareei, Xiaoxiao Ding, James C Weaver, Chris H Rycroft, Katia Bertoldi* (2022). Inverse Design of Mechanical Metamaterials with Target Nonlinear Response via a Neural Accelerated Evolution Strategy. Advanced Materials.

Welcome 👋 A brief explanation of the project…

Selected publications:
1. Bolei Deng, Liyuan Chen, Donglai Wei, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi (2020). Pulse-driven robot, Motion via solitary waves. Science Advances.
2. Bolei Deng#, Mohamed Zanaty#, Antonio E Forte, Katia Bertoldi (2022). Topological solitons make metamaterials crawl. Physical Review Applied.
3. Ahmad Zareei, Bolei Deng, Katia Bertoldi (2019). Harnessing transition waves to realize deployable structures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
4. Lishuai Jin, Antonio Elia Forte, Bolei Deng, Ahmad Rafsanjani, Katia Bertoldi (2020). Kirigami‐Inspired Inflatables with Programmable Shapes. Advanced Materials.