Motion and transport in microorganisms / Bio- & geo-inspired novel mechanics
Publications
2016
Topological mechanics of origami and kirigami
| Phys. Rev. Letter ❱ |
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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
Origami structures with a critical transition to bistability arising from hidden degrees of freedom
| Nat. Mater. ❱ |
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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
Propulsive matrix of a helical flagellum
| Chin. Phys. B ❱ |
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H. P. Zhang, B. Liu, B. Rodenborn, H. L. Swinney, Chin. Phys. B 23, 114703 (2014).
Helical motion of the cell body enhances Caulobacter crescentus motility
| PNAS ❱ |
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B. Liu, M. Gulino, M. Morse, J. Tang, T. R. Powers, and K. S. Breuer, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111, 11252 (2014).
Propulsion by a helical flagellum in a capillary tube
| Phys. Fluids ❱
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B. Liu, Kenneth S. Breuer, and Thomas R. Powers, Phys. Fluids 26, 011701 (2014).
2013
Locomotion of helical bodies in viscoelastic fluids: enhanced swimming at large helical amplitudes
| Phys. Rev. Letter ❱
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Saverio Spagnolie, B. Liu, and Thomas R. Powers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 068101 (2013).
Helical swimming in stokes flow using a novel boundary-element method
| Phys. Fluids ❱
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B. Liu, Kenneth S. Breuer, and Thomas R. Powers, Phys. Fluids 25, 061902 (2013).
Propulsion of microorganisms by a helical flagellum
| PNAS ❱ |
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B. Rodenborn, C.-H. Chen, H. L. Swinney, B. Liu, and H. P. Zhang, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110, E338-E347 (2013).
Speed of a swimming sheet in Newtonian and viscoelastic Fluids
| Phys. Rev. E ❱ |
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M. Dasgupta, B. Liu, H. Fu, M. Berhanu, K. S. Breuer, T. R. Powers, and A. Kudrolli, Phys. Rev. E 87, 013015 (2013).
2012
Oscillations of a layer of viscoelastic fluid under steady forcing
| J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. ❱ |
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B. Liu, Michael Shelley and Jun Zhang, J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 175-176, 38 (2012).
Intrinsic stability of a body hovering in an oscillating airflow
| Phys. Rev. Lett. ❱ |
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B. Liu, L. Ristroph, A. Weathers, S. Childress and J. Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 068103 (2012).
2011
Force-free swimming of a model helical flagellum in viscoelastic fluids
| PNAS ❱ |
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B. Liu, Thomas Powers, and Kenneth Breuer, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 19516 (2011).
2010
Focused force transmission through an aqueous suspension of granules
| Phys. Rev. Lett. ❱ |
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B. Liu, Michael Shelley, and Jun Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 188301 (2010).
Hovering of a rigid pyramid in an oscillating airflow
| J. Fluid Mech. ❱ |
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A. Weathers, B. Folie, B. Liu (corr-auth), S. Childress and J. Zhang, J. Fluid Mech. 650, 415 (2010).
prior 2010
Self-induced cyclic reorganization of free bodies through thermal convection
| Phys. Rev. Lett. ❱ |
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B. Liu, and Jun Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 244501 (2008).
Implicit density-functional theory
| Phys. Rev. A ❱ |
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B. Liu and Jerome K. Percus, Phys. Rev. A 74, 012508 (2006).
The critical temperature of two-dimensional and three-dimensional Ising models
| Am. J. Phys. ❱ |
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B. Liu and Moshe Gitterman, Am. J. Phys. 71, 806 (2003).