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

• chapter

  • Compliant Mechanisms in Plants and Architecture.  Biologically-inspired systems. 2016

• 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