News

• 2024/05: Our paper, ‘Integration of kinks and creases enables tunable folding in meta-ribbons.’, has been published in Matter.
• 2024/05: Dr. Liu has been selected as a winner of the Young Scientist Support Grant for The 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024) held in Daegu, Korea on August 25-30, 2024.
• 2024/04: Our paper, ‘Dehydration-induced corrugated folding in Rhapis excelsa plant leaves.’, has been published in PNAS and Featured in the This week in PNAS.
• 2024/02: Our paper, ‘Bio-inspired facile strategy for programmable osmosis-driven shape-morphing elastomer composite structures.’, has been published in Materials Horizons.
• 2024/02: Our paper, ‘Tunable mechanics of architectured composites from particle assemblies.’ has been published in EML and Featured as the Front Cover.
• 2024/02: Dr. Liu has been featured on the News of the University of Birmingham.
• 2023/12: Our paper, ‘Hierarchical Tessellation Enables Programmable Morphing Matter.’, has been published in Matter.
• 2023/11: Dr. Liu has been awarded the prestigious Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young Investigator Award. Congratulations!
• 2023/11: Prof. Burigede Liu from the University of Cambridge visited our group and delivered a talk entitled ‘Towards Quantum Computing in Solid Mechanics’.
• 2023/10: Our paper, ‘Morphing matter: From mechanical principles to robotic applications.’ has been published in Soft Science and Featured as the Front Cover.
• 2023/10: Mr. Nan Li from Xi’an Jiaotong University has joined the group as a visiting PhD student. Welcome!
• 2023/09: Mr. Qun Zhang has joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome!
• 2023/09: Dr. Liu has finished the PPF position at NTU and moved to University of Birmingham to start the Assistant Professor position since 1st September.
• 2023/08: Our paper, ‘Inverse design and additive manufacturing of shape-morphing structures based on functionally graded composites.’, has been published in JMPS, which is Highlighted in Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) News.
• 2023/08: Our review paper, ‘Modeling and simulation of dynamics in soft robotics: A review of numerical approaches.’, has been published in Curr. Robot. Rep..
• 2023/05: Our paper, ‘Bifurcations and stability analysis of elastic slender structures using static discrete elastic rods method.’, has been published in JAM.
• 2023/04: Our paper, ‘Encoding and storage of information in mechanical metamaterials.’, has been published in Adv. Sci., which is Highlighted in Advanced Science News and Featured as the Back Cover.
• 2023/02: Our paper, ‘Modeling of magnetic cilia carpet robots using discrete differential geometry formulation.’, has been published in EML.
• 2023/02: Our paper, ‘A discrete model for the geometrically nonlinear mechanics of hard-magnetic slender structures.’, has been published in EML.
• 2023/01: Our paper, ‘Insect-scale jumping robots enabled by a dynamic buckling cascade.’, has been published in PNAS, which is Highlighted in TechXplore, University Oxford News and Oxford Mathematical Institute Case Study.
• 2023/01: Dr. Liu has been appointed as the Extreme Mechanics Letters - Early Career Advisory Board (EML-ECAB) member. Congratulations!
• 2022/11: Our paper, ‘Snap-induced morphing: From a single bistable shell to the origin of shape bifurcation in interacting shells’, has been published in JMPS.
• 2022/09: Our paper, ‘Modular multistable metamaterials with reprogrammable mechanical properties’, has been published in Eng Struct.
• 2022/08: Our paper, ‘Shape-morphing structures based on perforated kirigami’, has been published in EML.