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• projects 2
• project 2
• blog 3

team

• Pranay Gupta
• Sam Wheeler
• Cleo McHenry
• Helios Hong
• Tay Han
• Charlie Schofield
• Amelia Acker
• Taylor Levinson
• Sophie Poole
• Ingrid Wu
• Dalton Lazaroby
• Jadyn Iinuma
• Leila Bensaid
• Caetano Pérez-Marchant
• Martin Deng
• Lauren Henson
• Ross Hibbett
• Alex Schlegel
• Kaeshav Danesh
• Paco Navarro
• Anita Chen
• Amber Hughes
• James Clinton
• Vanessa Bartling
• Halie Kim
• Tanvi Krishnan
• Lucien Tsai
• Avalon Feiler
• Winnie Chu
• Nick Heller
• Andrés Cook
• Mark Ilton

news

• Viscoelastic materials paper published!
• Tunable LaMSA model paper published!
• Finger snap paper published!
• Latch-based control paper published!
• Beyond power amplification paper published!
• Size-scaling paper published in Soft Matter!
• PoSM Lab has a logo!
• Cascading power limits paper published in Science!
• Polymer slip paper published!

papers

• Elastodynamic mechanical analyzer for high strain-rate mechanical characterization
• Characterizing the Viscoelastic Behavior of the Bullfrog Plantaris Tendon
• Developing Polynorbornene Bottlebrush Sidechain and Crosslinker Monomers for Stereospecific Polymerization
• Bottlebrush Networks: A Primer for Advanced Architectures
• Tuning a mechanical model to biological reality: A case study in the LaMSA system of the trap-jaw ant Strumigenys
• Viscoelastic materials are most energy efficient when loaded and unloaded at equal rates
• The Impact of Polymerization Chemistry on the Mechanical Properties of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Bottlebrush Elastomers
• Decoupling the Impact of Entanglements and Mobility on the Failure Properties of Ultrathin Polymer Films
• A Tunable, Simplified Model for Biological Latch Mediated Spring Actuated Systems
• Simulating Viscoelastic Wave Propagation in Uniaxial Recoil
• Effects of Temporally Asymmetric Stretching on the Energy Efficiency of Synthetic and Biological Elastomers
• The ultrafast snap of a finger is mediated by skin friction
• Determining Nonlinear Recoil Properties of Viscoelastic Polymers
• Power and Resilience Optimization in Linear Elastic Recoil
• Latch-based control of energy output in spring actuated systems
• Why do large animals never actuate their jumps with latch-mediated springs? Because they can jump higher without them
• Beyond power amplification: latch-mediated spring actuation is an emerging framework for the study of diverse elastic systems
• The effect of size-scale on the kinematics of elastic energy release
• The principles of cascading power limits in small, fast biological and engineered systems
• Adsorption-induced slip inhibition for polymer melts on ideal substrates

paper

• Elastodynamic mechanical analyzer for high strain-rate mechanical characterization
• Characterizing the Viscoelastic Behavior of the Bullfrog Plantaris Tendon
• Developing Polynorbornene Bottlebrush Sidechain and Crosslinker Monomers for Stereospecific Polymerization
• Bottlebrush Networks: A Primer for Advanced Architectures
• Tuning a mechanical model to biological reality: A case study in the LaMSA system of the trap-jaw ant Strumigenys
• Viscoelastic materials are most energy efficient when loaded and unloaded at equal rates
• The Impact of Polymerization Chemistry on the Mechanical Properties of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Bottlebrush Elastomers
• Decoupling the Impact of Entanglements and Mobility on the Failure Properties of Ultrathin Polymer Films
• A Tunable, Simplified Model for Biological Latch Mediated Spring Actuated Systems
• Simulating Viscoelastic Wave Propagation in Uniaxial Recoil
• Effects of Temporally Asymmetric Stretching on the Energy Efficiency of Synthetic and Biological Elastomers
• The ultrafast snap of a finger is mediated by skin friction
• Determining Nonlinear Recoil Properties of Viscoelastic Polymers
• Power and Resilience Optimization in Linear Elastic Recoil
• Latch-based control of energy output in spring actuated systems
• Why do large animals never actuate their jumps with latch-mediated springs? Because they can jump higher without them
• Beyond power amplification: latch-mediated spring actuation is an emerging framework for the study of diverse elastic systems
• The effect of size-scale on the kinematics of elastic energy release
• The principles of cascading power limits in small, fast biological and engineered systems
• Adsorption-induced slip inhibition for polymer melts on ideal substrates

projects

• Modeling the Kinematics of Ultrafast Organisms
• High Speed Mechanics of Soft Materials

project

• Modeling the Kinematics of Ultrafast Organisms
• High Speed Mechanics of Soft Materials

blog

• Optimizing Free-Knot Spline Approximation
• Summer 2026 June 12th Update
• Summer 2026 June 5th Update