Publications

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.

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.

Styliani-Theodosia Korfia, Foteini Trigka, Víctor Riera Naranjo, Sara Bizzi, Hang Zhang, Bolei Deng, Michael M Lerch (2025). Structure-Aided Chemical Signal Propagation in Hydrogel Metastructures.

Chang Liu, Xiao-Yun Yan, Shucong Li, Hongshi Zhang, Bolei Deng, Nicholas X Fang, Youssef Habibi, Shih-Chi Chen, Xuanhe Zhao (2025). A metre-scale vertical origami hydrogel panel for atmospheric water harvesting in Death Valley. Nature Water.

Liyuan Chen, Matthew Fuertes, Bolei Deng (2025). Topological computation by non-Abelian braiding in classical metamaterials. Physical Review Research.

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.

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.

Liane Makatura, Michael Foshey, Bohan Wang, Felix HahnLein, Pingchuan Ma, Bolei Deng, Megan Tjandrasuwita, Andrew Spielberg, Crystal Owens, Peter Yichen Chen, Allan Zhao, Amy Zhu, Wil Norton, Edward Gu, Joshua Jacob, Yifei Li, Adriana Schulz, Wojciech Matusik (2024). How can large language models help humans in design and manufacturing? Part 2: Synthesizing an end-to-end LLM-enabled design and manufacturing workflow. Harvard Data Science Review.

Liane Makatura, Michael Foshey, Bohan Wang, Felix HahnLein, Pingchuan Ma, Bolei Deng, Megan Tjandrasuwita, Andrew Spielberg, Crystal Owens, Peter Yichen Chen, Allan Zhao, Amy Zhu, Wil Norton, Edward Gu, Joshua Jacob, Yifei Li, Adriana Schulz, Wojciech Matusik (2024). How can large language models help humans in design and manufacturing? Part 1: Elements of the LLM-enabled computational design and manufacturing pipeline. Harvard Data Science Review.

Shu Wang, Chase M Hartquist, Bolei Deng, Xuanhe Zhao (2024). A loop-opening model for the intrinsic fracture energy of polymer networks. Macromolecules.

Yunya Liu, Pai Wang, Christian Kern, Bolei Deng (2024). Multi-mode extremal architected materials with cubic symmetry. Behavior and Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials XVIII.

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.

Christos Athanasiou, Bolei Deng, Ahmed A Hassen (2024). Integrating Experiments, Simulations, and Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate the Discovery of High-Performance Green Composites. AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum.

Bolei Deng, Shu Wang, Chase Hartquist, Xuanhe Zhao (2023). Nonlocal intrinsic fracture energy of polymerlike networks. Physical Review Letters.

Arash Kazemi, Kshiteej J Deshmukh, Fei Chen, Yunya Liu, Bolei Deng, Henry Chien Fu, Pai Wang (2023). Drawing dispersion curves: band structure customization via nonlocal phononic crystals. Physical Review Letters.

Liane Makatura, Bohan Wang, Yi-Lu Chen, Bolei Deng, Chris Wojtan, Bernd Bickel, Wojciech Matusik (2023). Procedural Metamaterials: A Unified Procedural Graph for Metamaterial Design. ACM Transactions on Graphics.

Bolei Deng, Hang Shu, Jian Li, Chengyang Mo, Jordan R Raney, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi (2023). Nonlinear waves at the free surface of flexible mechanical metamaterials. Applied Physics Letters.

Liane Makatura, Michael Foshey, Wang Bohan, Felix HahnLein, Pingchuan Ma, Bolei Deng, Megan Tjandrasuwita, Andrew Spielberg, Crystal E. Owens, Yichen P. Chen, Allan Zhao, Amy Zhu, Wil J Norton, Edward Gu, Joshua Jacob, Yifei Li, Adriana Schulz, Wojciech Matusik (2023). How Can Large Language Models Help Humans in Design and Manufacturing?. ArXiv.

Pingchuan Ma, Peter Yichen Chen, Bolei Deng, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tao Du, Chuang Gan, Wojciech Matusik (2023). Learning Neural Constitutive Laws from Motion Observations for Generalizable PDE Dynamics. ICML.

Arash Kazemi, Kshiteej Deshmukh, Fei Chen, Yunya Liu, Bolei Deng, Xuan Zhu, Henry Fu, Pai Wang (2023). Achieving any desirable dispersion curves using non-local phononic crystals. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Beichen Li, Bolei Deng, Wan Shou, Tae-Hyun Oh, Yuanming Hu, Yiyue Luo, Liang Shi, Wojciech Matusik (2023). Computational Discovery of Microstructured Composites with Optimal Strength-Toughness Trade-Offs. ArXiv.

Faisal Jamil, Fei Chen, Bolei Deng, Robert G Parker, Pai Wang (2022). Inerter-based elastic metamaterials for band gap at extremely low frequency. Extreme Mechanics Letters.

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.

Bolei Deng#, Mohamed Zanaty#, Antonio E Forte, Katia Bertoldi (2022). Topological solitons make metamaterials crawl. Physical Review Applied.

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.

Nikolaos Vasios, Bolei Deng, Benjamin Gorissen, Katia Bertoldi (2021). Universally bistable shells with nonzero Gaussian curvature for two-way transition waves. Nature Communications.

Bolei Deng, JR Raney, K Bertoldi, Vincent Tournat (2021). Nonlinear waves in flexible mechanical metamaterials. Journal of Applied Physics.

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.

Bolei Deng, Liyuan Chen, Donglai Wei, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi (2020). Pulse-driven robot: Motion via solitary waves. Science Advances.

Lishuai Jin, Antonio Elia Forte, Bolei Deng, Ahmad Rafsanjani, Katia Bertoldi (2020). Kirigami‐Inspired Inflatables with Programmable Shapes. Advanced Materials.

Ahmad Zareei, Bolei Deng, Katia Bertoldi (2020). Harnessing transition waves to realize deployable structures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bolei Deng#, Jian Li#, Vincent Tournat, Prashant K. Purohit, Katia Bertoldi (2020). Dynamics of mechanical metamaterials: A framework to connect phonons, nonlinear periodic waves and solitons. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.

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.

Ahmad Rafsanjani, Lishuai Jin, Bolei Deng, Katia Bertoldi (2019). Propagation of pop ups in kirigami shells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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.

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.

Xinxin Guo, Vitalyi E Gusev, Vincent Tournat, Bolei Deng, Katia Bertoldi (2019). Frequency-doubling effect in acoustic reflection by a nonlinear, architected rotating-square metasurface. Physical Review E.

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.

Bolei Deng, Vincent Tournat, Pai Wang, Katia Bertoldi (2019). Anomalous Collisions of Elastic Vector Solitons in Mechanical Metamaterials. Physical Review Letters.

Bolei Deng, Pai Wang, Qi He, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi (2018). Metamaterials with amplitude gaps for elastic solitons. Nature Communications.

Bolei Deng, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi (2018). Effect of predeformation on the propagation of vector solitons in flexible mechanical metamaterials. Physical Review E.

Mu Fan, Bolei Deng, Hornsen Tzou (2018). DYNAMIC FLEXOELECTRIC ACTUATION AND CONTROL OF BEAMS. Journal of Vibration and Acoustics.

Hornsen Tzou, Bolei Deng, Huiyu Li (2017). Flexoelectric Actuation and Vibration Control of Ring Shells. Journal of Vibration and Acoustics.

Bolei Deng, Jordan R. Raney, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi (2017). Elastic Vector Solitons in Soft Architected Materials. Physical Review Letters.

Bolei Deng, Hua Li, Hornsen Tzou (2015). Optimal Positions for Multiple Flexoelectric Actuations on Beams. ASME.