A new paper Lagrangian approach to origami vertex analysis: Kinematics that will appear in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Here we show how the Lagrangian approach to origami facilitates the exploitation of symmetry, formulate reduced order compatibility conditions for some symmetric foldings, and obtain analytical expressions for the kinematics of some degree 6 and degree 8 origami vertices. (preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.15460)

Our paper Thermal fluctuations (eventually) unfold nanoscale origami was published in a special issue of Journal of the Physics and Mechanics of Solids (preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.03628.pdf).

A new paper Polymer networks which locally rotate to accommodate stresses, torques, and deformation is to be published in Journal of the Physics and Mechanics of Solids (preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2304.01301 ).

Our paper Low energy fold paths in multistable origami structures was published in the International Journal of Solids and Structures.

I'll be speaking at the Engineering and Applied Science Forum webinar series on Multiscale theory and Monte Carlo methods for electroactive polymers.

Our paper titled Statistical mechanics of a dielectric polymer chain in the force ensemble will be published in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. (Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08468)

I'll be speaking at the 2021 Virtual Polymer Physics Symposium on the topic of Architected Elastomers and Flexoelectricity.

Our work was featured here.

Our paper titled Flexoelectricity in soft elastomers and the molecular mechanisms underpinning the design and emergence of giant flexoelectricity has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

You can now see the recording of the invited talk (found here) I gave on 3/26 at the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics workshop, "New Trends and Open Challenges in Computational Mechanics: from Nano to Macroscale". The talk was titled, "Flexoelectricity in soft elastomers: molecular mechanisms, the emergence of giant flexoelectricity, and architected elastomer networks".

Our paper titled Nonlinear statistical mechanics drives intrinsic electrostriction and volumetric torque in polymer networks has been published in Physical Review E.

I'll be speaking about Flexoelectricity in soft elastomers: molecular mechanisms, the emergence of giant flexoelectricity, and architected elastomer networks at the upcoming U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics workshop, "New Trends and Open Challenges in Computational Mechanics: from Nano to Macroscale".

We will be sharing our work on Propagation of Information through Origami Folding: A Graph-Theoretic Approach and Exploiting symmetry and a new conservation law for designing multistable eight-fold origami structures at the APS March Meeting.

I'll be speaking about Architected Elastomer Networks for Optimal Electromechanical Response at the Soft Matter for All: Celebrating Diversity and Creativity in Soft Matter symposium, 2020-10-23.

Our paper on architected elastomer networks for optimal electromechanical response is to be published in JMPS.