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Planar Soft Functional Periodic Structures Exploiting Instabilities and Large Deformation
(2015-07-30)
Soft materials can significantly change their shape and volume when subjected to various stimuli.
Materials with deliberately designed periodic microstructure have long been proved to be characterized by properties that ...
Improving SoC Power Delivery With Fully Integrated Switched-Capacitor Voltage Regulators
(2015-09-28)
Traditional power delivery solutions f or system-on-chip (SoC) applications rely on off-chip voltage regulators. The off-chip power delivery solution is becoming a bottleneck for SoCs, due to 1) coarse voltage domain ...
Design of Hybrid Passive and Active Mechanisms for Control of Insect-Scale Flapping-Wing Robots
(2015-09-20)
Flying insects exhibit a remarkable ability to fly in environments that are small, cluttered and highly dynamic. Inspired by these animals, scientist have made great strides in understanding the aerodynamic mechanisms ...
Mechanical design and manufacturing of an insect-scale flapping-wing robot
(2015-08-28)
Despite the prevalence of insect flight as a form of locomotion in nature, manmade aerial systems have yet to match the aerial prowess of flying insects. Within a tiny body volume, flying insects embody the capabilities ...
Physics-Based Visual Inference: Theory and Applications
(2015-08-27)
Analyzing images to infer physical scene properties is a fundamental task in computer vision. It is by nature an ill-posed inverse problem, because imaging is a complicated, information-lossy physical and measurement process ...
Role of the secretome in manganese and carbon oxidation by filamentous ascomycete fungi
(2015-09-19)
Fungi are the primary decomposers of recalcitrant plant and animal material in terrestrial environments, thereby serving as important drivers of global carbon cycling and climate dynamics and as mediators in renewable ...
Architectural Implications of Automatic Parallelization With HELIX-RC
(2015-09-23)
As classic Dennard process scaling fades into the past, power density concerns have driven modern CPU designs to de-emphasize the pursuit of single-thread performance, focusing instead on increasing the number of cores in ...
Microfluidic Methods for High-Throughput Biological Screening
(2015-09-23)
Often in biology, rare individuals within a population dominate the population’s overall behavior, and we wish to extract those individuals for further analysis. We design a sorting instrument as a flexible platform for ...
Magnetically Responsive Biomaterials for Enhanced Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
(2015-05-19)
Skeletal muscle comprises a large percentage of the human body mass and plays an essential role in locomotion, postural support, and breathing. Unfortunately, severe muscle injuries can lead to extensive and irreversible ...
Mechanical Behavior of Tough Hydrogels for Structural Applications
(2015-05-17)
Hydrogels are widely used in many commercial products including Jell-O, contact lenses, and superabsorbent diapers. In recent decades, hydrogels have been under intense development for biomedical applications, such as ...