Contact-based Mechanical Metamaterials

Presented at SMASIS ASME
Sept 10, 2024


A Universal Law for Intrinsic Fracture Energy of Stretchable Networks

Presented at Fracture of Soft Materials - An Ameritech Symposium
May 16, 2024


How to Inverse Designing Mechanical Metamaterials?

Presented at University of Utah
Mar 19, 2024


Inverse Design and Optimization of Mechanical Metamaterials

Presented at Georgia Tech Workshop on Foundation of Scientific AI for Optimization of Complex Systems
Jan 16, 2024


Learning Neural Constitutive Laws from Motion Observations for Generalizable PDE Dynamics

Presented at SES 2023
Oct 11, 2023

Pingchuan Ma, Peter Yichen Chen, Bolei Deng, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tao Du, Chuang Gan, Wojciech Matusik (2023). Learning Neural Constitutive Laws from Motion Observations for Generalizable PDE Dynamics. ICML.


Geometrically Programed, Contact Based Particle Robots

Presented at SES 2023
Oct 10, 2023



Computational Discovery of Microstructured Compositeswith Optimal Strength-Toughness Trade-Offs (20 min version)

Presented at SES 2023
Oct 9, 2023

Beichen Li, Bolei Deng, Wan Shou, Tae-Hyun Oh, Yuanmin Hu, Yiyue Luo, Liang Shi, Wojciech Matusik (2023). Computational Discovery of Microstructured Compositeswith Optimal Strength-Toughness Trade-Offs. ArXiv.



Computational Discovery of Microstructured Compositeswith Optimal Strength-Toughness Trade-Offs (10 min version)

Presented at APS March Meeting 2023
Mar 6, 2023

Beichen Li, Bolei Deng, Wan Shou, Tae-Hyun Oh, Yuanmin Hu, Yiyue Luo, Liang Shi, Wojciech Matusik (2023). Computational Discovery of Microstructured Compositeswith Optimal Strength-Toughness Trade-Offs. ArXiv.



Topological Solitons Make Metamaterials Crawl

Presented at Physical Review Journal Club
Aug 8, 2022

Bolei Deng#, Mohamed Zanaty#, Antonio E Forte, Katia Bertoldi (2022). Topological solitons make metamaterials crawl. Physical Review Applied.



My PhD Defense

Presented at Harvard University
Aug 26, 2021

Bolei Deng, Pai Wang, Qi He, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi (2018). Metamaterials with amplitude gaps for elastic solitons. Nature Communications.

Shucong Li#, Bolei Deng#, et al (2021). Liquid-induced topological transformations of cellular microstructures. Nature.



Liquid-induced Topological Transformation of Micro-structures (long version)

Presented at EASF_Young Webinar
Nov 18, 2020

Shucong Li#, Bolei Deng#, et al (2021). Liquid-induced topological transformations of cellular microstructures. Nature.



Liquid-induced Topological Transformation of Micro-structures (short version)

Presented at MERSC Meeting
Sep 13, 2021

Shucong Li#, Bolei Deng#, et al (2021). Liquid-induced topological transformations of cellular microstructures. Nature.



Elastic Vector Solitons in a 2D Soft Mechanical Metamaterial

Presented at SES 2019
Oct 15, 2019

Bolei Deng#, Chengyang Mo#, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi, Jordan R. Raney (2019). Focusing and Mode Separation of Elastic Vector Solitons in a 2D Soft Mechanical Metamaterial. Physical Review Letters.



Pulse Driven Robot: Motion via Nonlinear Waves

Presented at IMECE 2019
Nov 13, 2019

Bolei Deng, Liyuan Chen, Donglai Wei, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi (2020). Pulse-driven robot, Motion via solitary waves. Science Advances.

Bolei Deng#, Mohamed Zanaty#, Antonio E Forte, Katia Bertoldi (2022). Topological solitons make metamaterials crawl. Physical Review Applied.



Anomalous Collision of Elastic Vector Soliton in Mechanical Metamaterials

Presented at APS March Meeting
Mar 8, 2019

Bolei Deng, Vincent Tournat, Pai Wang, Katia Bertoldi (2019). Anomalous Collisions of Elastic Vector Solitons in Mechanical Metamaterials. Physical Review Letters.