Bin Liu Lab
Motion and transport in microorganisms / Bio- & geo-inspired novel mechanics
Publications

    2016
  1. Topological mechanics of origami and kirigami | Phys. Rev. Letter | .pdf ❱ |
    B. G. Chen, B. Liu, A. A. Evans, J. Paulose, I. Cohen, V. Vitelli, C.D. Santangelo, Phys. Rev. Lett., 116, 135501 (2016).
    Featured by Synopsis: Topological Origami.
    2015
  2. Origami structures with a critical transition to bistability arising from hidden degrees of freedom | Nat. Mater. | .pdf ❱ |
    J. L. Silverberg, J.-H. Na, A. A. Evans, B. Liu, T. C. Hull, C. D. Santangelo, R. J. Lang, R. C. Hayward, and I. Cohen, Nat. Mater. 14, 389 (2015).
    2014
  3. Propulsive matrix of a helical flagellum | Chin. Phys. B | .pdf ❱ |
    H. P. Zhang, B. Liu, B. Rodenborn, H. L. Swinney, Chin. Phys. B 23, 114703 (2014).
  4. Helical motion of the cell body enhances Caulobacter crescentus motility | PNAS | .pdf ❱ |
    B. Liu, M. Gulino, M. Morse, J. Tang, T. R. Powers, and K. S. Breuer, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111, 11252 (2014).
  5. Propulsion by a helical flagellum in a capillary tube | Phys. Fluids | .pdf ❱ |
    B. Liu, Kenneth S. Breuer, and Thomas R. Powers, Phys. Fluids 26, 011701 (2014).

  6. 2013
  7. Locomotion of helical bodies in viscoelastic fluids: enhanced swimming at large helical amplitudes | Phys. Rev. Letter | .pdf ❱ | SI ❱ |
    Saverio Spagnolie, B. Liu, and Thomas R. Powers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 068101 (2013).
  8. Helical swimming in stokes flow using a novel boundary-element method | Phys. Fluids | .pdf ❱ |
    B. Liu, Kenneth S. Breuer, and Thomas R. Powers, Phys. Fluids 25, 061902 (2013).
  9. Propulsion of microorganisms by a helical flagellum | PNAS | .pdf ❱ | SI ❱ |
    B. Rodenborn, C.-H. Chen, H. L. Swinney, B. Liu, and H. P. Zhang, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110, E338-E347 (2013).
  10. Speed of a swimming sheet in Newtonian and viscoelastic Fluids | Phys. Rev. E | .pdf ❱ |
    M. Dasgupta, B. Liu, H. Fu, M. Berhanu, K. S. Breuer, T. R. Powers, and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. E 87, 013015 (2013).

  11. 2012
  12. Oscillations of a layer of viscoelastic fluid under steady forcing | J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. | .pdf ❱ |
    B. Liu, Michael Shelley and Jun Zhang, J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 175-176, 38 (2012).
  13. Intrinsic stability of a body hovering in an oscillating airflow | Phys. Rev. Lett. | .pdf ❱ | SI ❱ |
    B. Liu, L. Ristroph, A. Weathers, S. Childress and J. Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 068103 (2012).

  14. 2011
  15. Force-free swimming of a model helical flagellum in viscoelastic fluids | PNAS ❱ | .pdf ❱ |
    B. Liu, Thomas Powers, and Kenneth Breuer, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 19516 (2011).

  16. 2010
  17. Focused force transmission through an aqueous suspension of granules | Phys. Rev. Lett. | .pdf ❱ | cover ❱ |
    B. Liu, Michael Shelley, and Jun Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 188301 (2010).
  18. Hovering of a rigid pyramid in an oscillating airflow | J. Fluid Mech. | .pdf ❱ |
    A. Weathers, B. Folie, B. Liu (corr-auth), S. Childress and J. Zhang, J. Fluid Mech. 650, 415 (2010).

  19. prior 2010
  20. Self-induced cyclic reorganization of free bodies through thermal convection | Phys. Rev. Lett. | .pdf ❱ |
    B. Liu, and Jun Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 244501 (2008).
  21. Implicit density-functional theory | Phys. Rev. A ❱ | .pdf ❱ |
    B. Liu and Jerome K. Percus, Phys. Rev. A 74, 012508 (2006).
  22. The critical temperature of two-dimensional and three-dimensional Ising models | Am. J. Phys. ❱ | .pdf ❱ |
    B. Liu and Moshe Gitterman, Am. J. Phys. 71, 806 (2003).