selected publications

• academic article

  • Plants as inspiration for material-based sensing and actuation in soft robots and machines.  Mrs Bulletin.  48:730-745. 2023
  • Bio-inspired life-like motile materials systems: Changing the boundaries between living and technical systems in the Anthropocene.  The anthropocene review.  9:237-256. 2021
  • Biomimetic Actuators: Toward a New Generation of Smart Biomimetic Actuators for Architecture (Adv. Mater. 19/2018).  Advanced Materials.  30:1870135-1870135. 2018
  • A methodology for transferring principles of plant movements to elastic systems in architecture.  Computer-Aided Design.  60:105-117. 2015
  • Plants as concept generators for biomimetic self-healing and self-adaptive materials, structures and surfaces.  ICSHM 2013: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Self-Healing Materials, Ghent, Belgium, June 16-20, 2013.  2013
  • Design and construction principles in nature and architecture.  Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.  7:015002-015002. 2012

• chapter

  • Compliant Mechanisms in Plants and Architecture.  Biologically-inspired systems. 2016
  • The role of textiles in providing biomimetic solutions for construction.  Elsevier eBooks. 310-329. 2010

• conference paper

  • Abstraction of bio-inspired curved-line folding patterns for elastic foils and membranes in architecture.  Ecology and the Environment. 2010
  • Elastic architecture: nature inspired pliable structures.  Ecology and the Environment. 2010