Physics of Metamaterials

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.

Selected publications:
1. Chase M Hartquist, Shu Wang, Bolei Deng, Haley K Beech, Stephen L Craig, Bradley D Olsen, Michael Rubinstein, Xuanhe Zhao (2025). Fracture of polymer-like networks with hybrid bond strengths. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
2. Chase Hartquist, Shu Wang, Qiaodong Cui, Wojciech Matusik, Bolei Deng, Xuanhe Zhao (2025). Scaling law for intrinsic fracture energy of diverse stretchable networks. Physical Review X.
3. Shu Wang, Chase M Hartquist, Bolei Deng, Xuanhe Zhao (2024). A loop-opening model for the intrinsic fracture energy of polymer networks. Macromolecules.
4. Beichen Li, Bolei Deng, Wan Shou, Tae-Hyun Oh, Yuanming Hu, Yiyue Luo, Liang Shi, Wojciech Matusik (2024). Computational discovery of microstructured composites with optimal stiffness-toughness trade-offs. Science Advances.
5. Bolei Deng, Shu Wang, Chase Hartquist, Xuanhe Zhao (2023). Nonlocal intrinsic fracture energy of polymerlike networks. Physical Review Letters.

Selected publications:
1. Xinyi Yang, Bohan Wang, Víctor Riera Naranjo, Minghao Guo, Olivia Rivera, Leonid Sopizhenko, Shucong Li, William Freeman, Wojciech Matusik, Bolei Deng (2025). Electronic-Free Particle Robots Communicate through Architected Tentacles. Advanced Intelligent Systems.
2. Yibo Fu, Vivian Shen, Víctor Riera Naranjo, Bolei Deng, Alex Adams, Josiah Hester (2025). SoundOff: Low-cost Passive Ultrasound Tags for Non-invasive and Non-Intrusive Smart Home Sensing. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies.
3. Bolei Deng#, Mohamed Zanaty#, Antonio E Forte, Katia Bertoldi (2022). Topological solitons make metamaterials crawl. Physical Review Applied.

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.