Mingchao Liu
@mingchaoliu.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ University of Birmingham
🍂 New paper (JMPS, OA): Midveins control how drying leaves curl/fold.
Soft lamina shrinks; stiff vein resists → stress → 3D shapes.
Nonlinear, non-Euclidean mechanics—and bioinspiration for morphable materials.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
#Leaf #Mechanics #Biomimetics
Soft lamina shrinks; stiff vein resists → stress → 3D shapes.
Nonlinear, non-Euclidean mechanics—and bioinspiration for morphable materials.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
#Leaf #Mechanics #Biomimetics
October 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🍂 New paper (JMPS, OA): Midveins control how drying leaves curl/fold.
Soft lamina shrinks; stiff vein resists → stress → 3D shapes.
Nonlinear, non-Euclidean mechanics—and bioinspiration for morphable materials.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
#Leaf #Mechanics #Biomimetics
Soft lamina shrinks; stiff vein resists → stress → 3D shapes.
Nonlinear, non-Euclidean mechanics—and bioinspiration for morphable materials.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
#Leaf #Mechanics #Biomimetics
🚀 New in JMPS!
Real-time navigation control of magnetic soft continuum robots (MSCRs) in confined lumens! 🧲🩺
✅ Hard-magnetic elastic rod + DDG + contact
✅ Real-time inverse design of magnetic fields
A step closer to clinical translation!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
Real-time navigation control of magnetic soft continuum robots (MSCRs) in confined lumens! 🧲🩺
✅ Hard-magnetic elastic rod + DDG + contact
✅ Real-time inverse design of magnetic fields
A step closer to clinical translation!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
June 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🚀 New in JMPS!
Real-time navigation control of magnetic soft continuum robots (MSCRs) in confined lumens! 🧲🩺
✅ Hard-magnetic elastic rod + DDG + contact
✅ Real-time inverse design of magnetic fields
A step closer to clinical translation!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
Real-time navigation control of magnetic soft continuum robots (MSCRs) in confined lumens! 🧲🩺
✅ Hard-magnetic elastic rod + DDG + contact
✅ Real-time inverse design of magnetic fields
A step closer to clinical translation!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
Published this week in @pnas.org:
A thin sheet folds deeply from a small, localized pull.
No patterning, no compression — just geometry.
We call it #TUG_Folding — a new instability with α ∝ ε³⁄⁴.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423439122
@mathobservatory.bsky.social
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
A thin sheet folds deeply from a small, localized pull.
No patterning, no compression — just geometry.
We call it #TUG_Folding — a new instability with α ∝ ε³⁄⁴.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423439122
@mathobservatory.bsky.social
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Published this week in @pnas.org:
A thin sheet folds deeply from a small, localized pull.
No patterning, no compression — just geometry.
We call it #TUG_Folding — a new instability with α ∝ ε³⁄⁴.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423439122
@mathobservatory.bsky.social
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
A thin sheet folds deeply from a small, localized pull.
No patterning, no compression — just geometry.
We call it #TUG_Folding — a new instability with α ∝ ε³⁄⁴.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423439122
@mathobservatory.bsky.social
@unibirmingham.bsky.social