Publications

Journal articles and public preprints, organised by year. Public manuscript versions are linked alongside published articles. See also Google Scholar.

Co-first authors (equal contribution) · Corresponding authors

2026

Air-permeable hydrogels through viscoelastic phase separation of aerogels

Xiao-Yun Yan^{* (co-first author)}^{† (corresponding author)}, Shucong Li^{* (co-first author)}^{† (corresponding author)}, Won Jun Song, Runze Li, Aarosh Dahal, Bastien F. G. Aymon, Haodong Hu, Deep K. Malu, Gabriella E. Carreira, Jingjing Wu, Gengxi Lu, Bolei Deng, Jiayi Liu, Siqin Yu, Shu Wang, Eric Lu, Hyunhee Lee, Hui Xu, Anqi Chen, Yuxing Yao, James H. Zhang, Chen Gong, Yiyuan Sun, Jeong-Yun Sun, David A. Weitz, Casey O’Brien, Yuhang Hu, Zachary P. Smith, Aditya Kumar, Xuanhe Zhao^{† (corresponding author)}

Nature 655, 372–380 · 2026

Biohybrid Tendons Enhance the Power-to-Weight Ratio and Modularity of Muscle-Powered Robots

Nicolas Castro, Ronald Heisser, Maheera Bawa, Bastien Aymon, Sarah Wu, Annika Marschner, Sonika Kohli, Angel Bu, Laura Rosado, Martin Culpepper, Xuanhe Zhao, Ritu Raman^{† (corresponding author)}

Advanced Science 13(15), e12680 · 2026

Peierls-Nabarro modeling of dislocations in high-entropy alloys

Xin Liu, Terrence P. Moran, Bastien F. G. Aymon, W. A. Curtin

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 208, 106457 · 2026

Design framework for programmable three-dimensional woven metamaterials

Molly Carton, James Utama Surjadi, Bastien F. G. Aymon, Ling Xu, Carlos M. Portela^{† (corresponding author)}

Nature Communications 17, 1581 · 2026

Hierarchical Granular Metamaterials

James Utama Surjadi^{* (co-first author)}, Bastien F. G. Aymon^{* (co-first author)}, Ayan Kumar, Lei Wu, Jet Lem, Ken N. Kamrin, Carlos M. Portela^{† (corresponding author)}

arXiv 2606.22795 · 2026 · Preprint — not peer reviewed

2025

Self-locking and stability of the bowline knot

Bastien F. G. Aymon, Fani Derveni, Michael Gomez, Jérôme Crassous, Pedro M. Reis^{† (corresponding author)}

Extreme Mechanics Letters 81, 102413 · 2025

Adhesive nonfibrotic bioelectronic interfaces on diverse peripheral nerves for long-term functional neuromodulation

Hyunmin Moon, Bastien F. G. Aymon, Jue Deng, Tao Zhou, Vincent Prevosto, Fan Wang, Jingjing Wu^{† (corresponding author)}, Xuanhe Zhao^{† (corresponding author)}

Science Advances 11(45), eadz3668 · 2025

All-3D-Printed Multi-Environment Modular Microrobots Powered by Large-Displacement Dielectric Elastomer Microactuators

Won Jun Song^{* (co-first author)}, Yong-Woo Kang^{* (co-first author)}, Yun Hyeok Lee^{* (co-first author)}, Junhyung Kim, Bastien F. G. Aymon, Seong-Yu Choi, Yong Eun Cho, Xiao-Yun Yan, Shucong Li, Younghoon Lee, Xuanhe Zhao, Yong-Lae Park^{† (corresponding author)}, Jeong-Yun Sun^{† (corresponding author)}

Advanced Materials 37(45), e07503 · 2025

2024

Leveraging the Snap Buckling of Bistable Magnetic Shells to Design a Refreshable Braille Dot

Arefeh Abbasi, Tian Chen, Bastien F. G. Aymon, Pedro M. Reis^{† (corresponding author)}

Advanced Materials Technologies 9(3), 2301344 · 2024

2023

A reduced-order, rotation-based model for thin hard-magnetic plates

Dong Yan, Bastien F. G. Aymon, Pedro M. Reis^{† (corresponding author)}

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 170, 105095 · 2023