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Research Highlights (with article links)

A sampling of student work at the interface between the biological, engineering, and design sciences

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Elucidating structure-function relationships in sponge skeletal systems:

Hydrodynamic insights


Mechanical and hydrodynamic analyses of helical strake-like ridges in a glass sponge


Matheus C Fernandes, Mehdi Saadat, Patrick Cauchy-Dubois, Chikara Inamura, Ted Sirota, Garrett Milliron, Hossein Haj-Hariri, Katia Bertoldi, James C Weaver


Journal of the Royal Society Interface 18 (182), 20210559

Innovations in artificial heart valve design, fit testing, and functionality:

Heart valves that expand as a patient grows


A geometrically adaptable heart valve replacement


Sophie C Hofferberth, Mossab Y Saeed, Lara Tomholt, Matheus C Fernandes, Christopher J Payne, Karl Price, Gerald R Marx, Jesse J Esch, David W Brown, Jonathan Brown, Peter E Hammer, Richard W Bianco,

James C Weaver, Elazer R Edelman, Pedro J Del Nido


Science Translational Medicine 12 (531)

High-throughput modeling of complex multi-component skeletal systems:

Sea Stars as a Case Study


High-throughput segmentation, data visualization, and analysis of sea star skeletal networks


Lara Tomholt, Daniel Baum, Robert J. Wood, and

James C. Weaver


Journal of Structural Biology 215 (2), 107955

A new research platform for the development of tethered tissue-specific medical devices


Design and fabrication of a parasite-inspired millimeter-scale tissue anchoring mechanism


Gabriel Maquignaza, Rachel Zoll, Michael Karpelson, James C. Weaver, and Robert J. Wood


PNAS Nexus 3 (12)

Real-time 3D imaging of living biological surfaces


Imaging biological surface topography

in situ and in vivo


Dylan K Wainwright, George V Lauder, James C Weaver


Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8 (11), 1626-1638

High-resolution multi-material bitmap-based 3D printing of complex biomedical data sets


From improved diagnostics to presurgical planning: High-resolution functionally graded multimaterial 3D printing of biomedical tomographic data sets


Ahmed Hosny, Steven J Keating, Joshua D Dilley, Beth Ripley, Tatiana Kelil, Steve Pieper, Dominik Kolb, Christoph Bader, Anne-Marie Pobloth, Molly Griffin, Reza Nezafat, Georg Duda, Ennio A Chiocca, James R Stone, James S Michaelson, Mason N Dean, Neri Oxman, James C Weaver


3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing 5 (2), 103-113

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Design-Collabs_files/MEE-2017.pdf
Design-Collabs_files/pgae495.pdf