Academic

Soft robots via Architected Materials

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.
Soft robots via Architected Materials
Optimization and inverse design algorithms

Selected publications:
1. 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.
2. Yunya Liu, Pai Wang, Christian Kern, Bolei Deng (2024). Multi-mode extremal architected materials with cubic symmetry. Behavior and Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials XVIII.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
Optimization and inverse design algorithms