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
  • Learning from plant movements triggered by bulliform cells: the biomimetic cellular actuator.  Journal of the Royal Society Interface.  17:20200358-20200358. 2020
  • Bio-inspiration as a Concept for Sustainable Constructions Illustrated on Graded Concrete.  Journal of Bionic Engineering.  16:742-753. 2019
  • 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
  • Oscillations of plants' stems and their damping: theory and experimentation.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.  358:1487-1492. 2003

• chapter

  • The role of textiles in providing biomimetic solutions for construction.  Elsevier eBooks. 310-329. 2010