We publish in both physical sciences and computer science venues.
For physical sciences, we publish Nature, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Advanced Materials Technologies, etc. We present in SES, MRS, IROS, ICRA, GRC, APS, etc.
In computer science, human-computer interaction, the top venues (~ 20% acceptance rates) include the ACM CHI, UIST, DIS, UbiComp, etc.
Autonomous self-burying seed carriers for aerial seeding
Danli Luo, Aditi Maheshwari, Andreea Danielescu, Jiaqi Li, Yue Yang, Ye Tao, Lingyun Sun, Dinesh K. Patel, Guanyun Wang✉, Shu Yang✉, Teng Zhang✉, Lining Yao✉. 2023. Nature. Cover Story. PDF | DOI | IP
🏅 Honors: Cover Story of Nature
📣News: BBC | Wall Street Journal | Science Friday | Nature News | NewScientist | Reuters | Plantae| CMU News | Penn Today | Nature Biotechnology | Tulsa World | Seed World | Futurity
Patterns and Opportunities for the Design of Human-Plant Interaction
Michelle Chang , Chenyi Shen* , Aditi Maheshwari*† , Andreea Danielescu†✉, and Lining Yao✉ . (* Contributed Equally; † Accenture Labs).
In Proceedings of the ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS). 2022. PDF | DOI | Presentation
Hydrogel-based DIY Underwater Morphing Artifacts
Harshika Jain*, Kexin Lu*, and Lining Yao✉ (* Contributed Equally). The ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS). 2021. PDF | DOI | Video | Presentation
🏅 Award: Video Runner Up prize for #SmartOceansChallenge, Smart Oceans 2020
💾 Download the Tool: Github
📌 Making Tutorials: MM4Girls
Morphing Pasta and Beyond
Ye Tao, Yi-Chin Lee, Haolin Liu, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Jianxun Cui, Catherine Mondoa, Mahnoush Babaei, Jasio Santillan, Guanyun Wang, Danli Luo, Di Liu, Humphrey Yang, Youngwook Do, Lingyun Sun, Wen Wang✉, Teng Zhang✉, Lining Yao✉. 2021. Science Advances. Cover Story. PDF | DOI | Patent_A | Patent_B
🏅 Awards: Cover Story of Science Advances, Fast Company Innovation by Design Award | Creative Food Cycles Honorable Mention Award
📣News: New York Times , Science Magzine, Scientific American, Fast Company, National Geographic, PBS, BBC, ABC NEWS, Science Friday, Smithsonian Magzine, Inverse, UK Daily Mail, Science News, Designboom, Yahoo, GIZMODO, TechXpore, physicsworld, NewScientist, cnet | Tracking Live Metrics
Morphlour: Personalized Flour-based Morphing Food Induced by Dehydration or Hydration Method
Ye Tao, Youngwook Do, Humphrey Yang, Yi-Chin Lee, Guanyun Wang, Catherine Mondoa, Jianxun Cui, Wen Wang✉, Lining Yao*. The ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST). 2019. PDF | DOI | Video | Patent
🏅Award: Fast Company Innovation by Design Award | Creative Food Cycles Honorable Mention Award
Thermorph: Democratizing 4D Printing of Self-Folding Materials and Interfaces
Byoungkwon An*, Ye Tao*, Jianzhe Gu, Tingyu Cheng, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Wei Zhao, Youngwook Do, Shigeo Takahashi, Hsiang-Yun Wu, Teng Zhang✉, Lining Yao✉ (* Contributed Equally). The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2018 PDF | DOI
Exhibitions: Ars Electronica 2018
📣Selected News: CMU News | HCII@CMU | dezeen | ZDNet | ALL3DP
Harnessing the Hygroscopic and Biofluorescent Behaviors of Genetically-Tractable Microbial Cells to Design Bio-hybrid Wearables
Wen Wang, Lining Yao, Chin-Yi Cheng, Teng Zhang, Hiroshi Atsumi, Luda Wang, Guanyun Wang, Oksana Anilionyte, Helene Steiner, Jifei Ou, Kang Zhou, Chris Wawrousek, Katherine Petrecca, Angela M. Belcher, Rohit Karnik, Xuanhe Zhao✉, Daniel I. C. Wang✉, Hiroshi Ishii✉. 2017. Science Advances. PDF | DOI | Patent
📣 News: MIT News | Wired | Wired UK | Discovery News | Dezeen | YAHOO! News UK | CNBC | Fast Company | Creative Application, Gizmodo, Smithsonian Innovation, Interesting Engineer
Transformative Appetite: Shape-Changing Food Transforms from 2D to 3D by Water Interaction through Cooking
Wen Wang*, Lining Yao*, Teng Zhang, Chin-Yi Cheng, Daniel Levine, Hiroshi Ishii✉ (* Contributed Equally). The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2017. PDF | DOI
News: MIT News | CNN | Popular Science | Fox News | dezeen | Boston Globe | reThinkFood | PopTech | Meet the Media Guru | Techfestival
🗃 Patent
🏅Award: Fast Company Innovation by Design Award | Creative Food Cycles Honorable Mention Award
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2024
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- Mar 7, 2024 Intrinsically Multistable Soft Actuator Driven by Mixed-Mode Snap-Through Instabilities Mar 7, 2024
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2023
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- Dec 14, 2023 Sustainable Morphing Matter: Design and Engineering Practices Dec 14, 2023
- Dec 2, 2023 Architected Morphing Matter: The Confluence of Geometry and Hidden Forces Dec 2, 2023
- Oct 13, 2023 Sustainflatable: Harvesting, Storing and Utilizing Ambient Energy for Pneumatic Morphing Interfaces Oct 13, 2023
- Sep 15, 2023 RevLock: A Reversible Self-Locking Mechanism Driven by Linear Actuators for Foldable Robots and Systems Sep 15, 2023
- Jul 19, 2023 Bioderived Hygromorphic Twisted Actuator for Untethered Sustainable Systems Jul 19, 2023
- Jul 18, 2023 FRESH-Printing of a Multi-actuator Biodegradable Robot Arm for Articulation and Grasping Jul 18, 2023
- Jul 10, 2023 FlexTure: Designing Configurable and Dynamic Surface Features Jul 10, 2023
- Jul 10, 2023 Dancing Delicacies: Designing Computational Food for Dynamic Dining Trajectories Jul 10, 2023
- Jun 10, 2023 Biodegradable, Sustainable Hydrogel Actuators with Shape and Stiffness Morphing Capabilities via Embedded 3D Printing Jun 10, 2023
- May 10, 2023 Multimaterial Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Integrated Stretchable Electronics May 10, 2023
- Apr 25, 2023 Toward Fully Printed Soft Actuators: UV-Assisted Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Biphasic Liquid Metal Conductors Apr 25, 2023
- Apr 19, 2023 Exploring Challenges and Opportunities to Support Designers in Learning to Co-create with AI-based Manufacturing Design Tools Apr 19, 2023
- Apr 19, 2023 Fluidic Computation Kit: Towards Electronic-free Shape-changing Interfaces Apr 19, 2023
- Apr 19, 2023 EpoMemory: Multi-state Shape Memory for Programmable Morphing Interfaces Apr 19, 2023
- Apr 19, 2023 An Augmented Knitting Machine for Operational Assistance and Guided Improvisation Apr 19, 2023
- Apr 19, 2023 Physically Situated Tools for Exploring a Grain Space in Computational Machine Knitting Apr 19, 2023
- Apr 6, 2023 Electrically Controlled Liquid Crystal Elastomer Surfaces for Dynamic Wrinkling Apr 6, 2023
- Feb 15, 2023 Autonomous self-burying seed carriers for aerial seeding Feb 15, 2023
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2022
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- Nov 18, 2022 Highly Dynamic Bistable Soft Actuator for Reconfigurable Multimodal Soft Robots Nov 18, 2022
- Oct 30, 2022 Embedded 3D Printing of Thermally-Cured Thermoset Elastomers and the Interdependence of Rheology and Machine Pathing Oct 30, 2022
- Jul 14, 2022 A Method for 3D Printing and Rapid Prototyping of Fieldable Untethered Soft Robots Jul 14, 2022
- Jun 1, 2022 Patterns and Opportunities for the Design of Human-Plant Interaction Jun 1, 2022
- Jun 1, 2022 Blue Ceramics: Co-designing Morphing Ceramics for Seagrass Meadow Restoration Jun 1, 2022
- Apr 30, 2022 ElectriPop: Low-Cost, Shape-Changing Displays Using Electrostatically Inflated Mylar Sheets Apr 30, 2022
- Apr 29, 2022 ReCompFig: Designing Dynamically Reconfigurable Kinematic Devices Using Compliant Mechanisms and Tensioning Cables Apr 29, 2022
- Apr 29, 2022 PneuMesh: Pneumatic-driven Truss-based Shape Changing System Apr 29, 2022
- Apr 5, 2022 Liquid Crystal Elastomer with Integrated Soft Thermoelectrics for Shape Memory Actuation and Energy Harvesting Apr 5, 2022
- Mar 1, 2022 Morphace: An Integrated Approach for Designing Customizable and Transformative Facial Prosthetic Makeup Mar 1, 2022
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2021
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- Jun 1, 2021 Hydrogel-based DIY Underwater Morphing Artifacts Jun 1, 2021
- May 18, 2021 ExoForm: Shape Memory and Self-Fusing Semi-Rigid Wearables May 18, 2021
- May 9, 2021 Morphing Pasta and Beyond May 9, 2021
- May 7, 2021 Engineering Multifunctional Spacer Fabrics Through Machine Knitting May 7, 2021
- May 7, 2021 FlexTruss: A Computational Threading Method for Multi-material, Multi-form and Multi-use Prototyping May 7, 2021
- May 7, 2021 ShrinCage: 4D Printing Accessories that Self-Adapt May 7, 2021
- May 7, 2021 Freeform Fabrication of Fluidic Edible Materials May 7, 2021
- May 7, 2021 Enabling Personal Computational Handweaving with a Low-Cost Jacquard Loom May 7, 2021
- Apr 29, 2021 3D Printing Hydrogel-Based Soft and Biohybrid Actuators: A Mini-Review on Fabrication Techniques, Applications, and Challenges Apr 29, 2021
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2020
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- Dec 18, 2020 MorphingCircuit: An Integrated Design, Simulation, and Fabrication Workflow for Self-morphing Electronics Dec 18, 2020
- Nov 30, 2020 Geodesy+: Inverse Design Tool for Asymmetrical Self-Rising Surfaces with Color Texture Nov 30, 2020
- Oct 20, 2020 E-seed: Shape-Changing Interfaces that Self Drill Oct 20, 2020
- Jul 3, 2020 Investigating Underdetermination Through Interactive Computational Handweaving Jul 3, 2020
- May 1, 2020 SimuLearn: Fast and Accurate Simulator to Support Morphing Materials Design and Workflows May 1, 2020
- May 1, 2020 Material Characterization and Precise Finite Element Analysis of Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites for 4D Printing May 1, 2020
- Mar 18, 2020 Silver Tape: Inkjet-Printed Circuits Peeled-and-Transferred on Versatile Substrates Mar 18, 2020
- Jan 4, 2020 Hybrid IGA-FEA of Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites for Forward Design of AI-Enabled 4D Printing Jan 4, 2020
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2019
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- Oct 17, 2019 Self-healing UI: Mechanically and Electrically Self-healing Materials for Sensing and Actuation Interfaces Oct 17, 2019
- Oct 1, 2019 Morphlour: Personalized Flour-based Morphing Food Induced by Dehydration or Hydration Method Oct 1, 2019
- Aug 1, 2019 Hygromorphic Living Materials for Shape Changing Aug 1, 2019
- Jul 25, 2019 Space Food Experiences: Designing Passenger’s Eating Experiences for Future Space Travel Scenarios Jul 25, 2019
- May 4, 2019 A-line: 4D Printing Morphing Linear Composite Structures May 4, 2019
- May 2, 2019 ModiFiber: Two-Way Morphing Soft Thread Actuators for Tangible Interaction May 2, 2019
- May 2, 2019 Digital Fabrication of Soft Actuated Objects by Machine Knitting May 2, 2019
- May 2, 2019 ElectroDermis: Fully Untethered, Stretchable, and Highly-Customizable Electronic Bandages May 2, 2019
- May 2, 2019 Geodesy: Self-rising 2.5D Tiles by Printing along 2D Geodesic Closed Path May 2, 2019
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2018
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- Oct 11, 2018 4DMesh: 4D Printing Morphing Non-Developable Mesh Surfaces Oct 11, 2018
- Apr 21, 2018 Printed Paper Actuator: A Low-cost Reversible Actuation and Sensing Method for Shape Changing Interfaces Apr 21, 2018
- Apr 21, 2018 PEP (3D Printed Electronic Papercrafts): An Integrated Approach for 3D Sculpting Paper-Based Electronic Devices Apr 21, 2018
- Apr 1, 2018 Robotic Materials Report Apr 1, 2018
- Apr 1, 2018 Thermorph: Democratizing 4D Printing of Self-Folding Materials and Interfaces Apr 1, 2018
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2016
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- May 7, 2016 xPrint: A Modularized Liquid Printer for Smart Materials Deposition. May 7, 2016
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2015
2
- Dec 31, 2015 bioPrint: A Liquid Deposition Printing System for Natural Actuators. Dec 31, 2015
- Apr 1, 2015 bioLogic: Natto Cells as Nanoactuators for Shape Changing Interfaces. Apr 1, 2015
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2014
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- Feb 17, 2014 JamSheets: thin interfaces with tunable stiffness enabled by layer jamming Feb 17, 2014
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2013
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- Oct 9, 2013 PneUI: pneumatically actuated soft composite materials for shape changing interfaces. Oct 9, 2013