PUBLICATIONS

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Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

27.

Architected Poly(ionic liquid) Composites with Spatially Programmable Mechanical Properties and Mixed Conductivity.
EunBi Oh*, Alexander Q. Kane*, Ryan L. Truby.
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16, 10736–10745 (2024).

* These authors contributed equally.

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26.

Materializing Autonomy in Soft Robots Across Scales.
Thomas A. Berrueta, Todd D. Murphey, Ryan L. Truby.
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 6, 2300111 (2023).

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25.

Chemically Fueling New Microrobot Abilities.
Ryan L. Truby.
Science, 381, 1152-1153 (2023).

Image by Cameron Aubin

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24.

35+1 Challenges in Material Science Being Tackled by PIs under 35(ish) in 2023.
Monica Allen, Kwabena Bediako, William J. Bowman, Michelle Calabrese, Lucas Caretta, Rose K. Cersonsky, Wen Chen, Santiago Correa, Rachel Davidson, Leora Dresselhaus-Marais, Carissa N. Eisler, Ariel Furst, Ting Ge, Andrew Hook, Yi-Ting Hsu, Chunjing Jia, Jianfeng Lu, Alessandro Lunghi, Marco S. Messina, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Eva Nichols, Reshma Rao, Martin Seifrid, Katherine Emily Shulenberger, Alexandr N. Simonov, Xiao Su, Dayne F. Swearer, Evelyn Tang, Mercedes K. Taylor, Helen Tran, Gustavo F. Trindade, Ryan L. Truby, Hendrik Utzat, Ying Yang, Daryl W. Yee, Shenlong Zhao, Steve Cranford.
Matter, 6, 2480-2487 (2023).

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23.

Electrically Controllable Materials for Soft, Bioinspired Machines.
Alexander L. Evenchik*, Alexander Q. Kane*, EunBi Oh*, Ryan L. Truby.
Annual Review of Materials Research, 53, 225-251 (2023).

* These authors contributed equally.

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22.

Embedded 3D Printing of Architected Ceramics via Microwave-Activated Polymerization.
Benito Román-Manso, Robert D. Weeks, Ryan L. Truby, Jennifer A. Lewis.
Advanced Materials, 35, 2209270 (2023).

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21.

Embedded 3D Printing of Multimaterial Polymer Lattices via Graph-Based Print Path Planning.
Robert D. Weeks*, Ryan L. Truby*, Sebastien G. M. Uzel, Jennifer A. Lewis.
Advanced Materials, 35, 2206958 (2022).

* These authors contributed equally.

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20.

Vision-Based Sensing for Electrically-Driven Soft Actuators.
Annan Zhang, Ryan L. Truby, Lillian Chin, Shuguang Li, Daniela Rus.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7, 11509 – 11516 (2022).

Accepted for dual presentation at 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

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17.

A Recipe for Electrically-Driven Soft Robots via 3D Printed Handed Shearing Auxetics.
Ryan L. Truby*, Lillian Chin*, Daniela Rus.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6, 795-802 (2021).

* These authors contributed equally.

Accepted for dual presentation at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft)

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16.

Data-Driven Disturbance Observers for Estimating External Forces on Soft Robots.
Cosimo Della Santina*, Ryan L. Truby*, Daniela Rus.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5, 5717-5724 (2020).

* These authors contributed equally.

Accepted for dual presentation at 2020 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

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15.

Distributed Proprioception of 3D Configuration in Soft, Sensorized Robots via Deep Learning
Ryan L. Truby*, Cosimo Della Santina*, Daniela Rus.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5, 3299-3306 (2020).

* These authors contributed equally.
Accepted for dual presentation at 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Link | MIT News | SSF Highlight

14.

Shape-shifting lattices via multi-material 4D printing.
J. William Boley*, Wim M. van Rees*, Charles Lissandrello, Mark N. Horenstein, Ryan L. Truby, Arda Kotikian, Jennifer A. Lewis**, L. Mahadevan**.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116, 20856-20862 (2019).

*,** These authors contributed equally.

Link | Harvard Gazette 

13.

Biomanufacturing of organ-specific tissues with high cellular density and embedded vascular channels.
Mark A. Skylar-Scott*, Sebastien G. M. Uzel*, Lucy Nam, John H. Ahrens, Ryan L. Truby, Sarita Damaraju, Jennifer A. Lewis.
Science Advances, 5, eaaw2459 (2019).

* These authors contributed equally.

Link | Wyss Institute | NBC

12.

Viscoplastic Matrix Materials for Embedded 3D Printing.
Abigail K. Grosskopf, Ryan L. Truby, Hyoungsoo Kim, Antonio Perazzo, Jennifer A. Lewis, Howard A. Stone.
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10, 23353-23361 (2018).

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11.

Soft Somatosensitive Actuators via Embedded 3D Printing.
Ryan L. Truby, Michael Wehner, Abigail K. Grosskopf, Daniel M. Vogt, Sebastien G. M. Uzel, Robert J. Wood, Jennifer A. Lewis.
Advanced Materials, 30, 1706383 (2018).

Featured on the Frontispiece.

Link | Harvard SEAS | Nature | Frontispiece

10.

3D Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators with Spatially Programed Nematic Order.
Arda Kotikian, Ryan L. Truby, J. William Boley, Timothy J. White, Jennifer A. Lewis.
Advanced Materials, 30, 1706164 (2018).

Featured on the Front Cover

Link | Science Robotics | Front Cover

8.

An integrated design and fabrication strategy for entirely soft, autonomous robots.
Michael Wehner*, Ryan L. Truby*, Daniel J. Fitzgerald, Bobak Mosadegh, George M. Whitesides, Jennifer A. Lewis**, Robert J. Wood**.
Nature, 536, 451-455 (2016).

*,** These authors contributed equally.
Selected for Nature Editor’s Choice Article of 2016, feature on the Cover of Nature Reviews Materials

Link | Harvard SEAS | Nature | Science | MIT Tech Review | New York Times | BBC

7.

Embedded 3D Printing of Strain Sensors with Highly Stretchable Elastomers.
Joseph T Muth*, Daniel M Vogt*, Ryan L. Truby, Yiğit Mengüç, David B Kolesky, Robert J Wood, Jennifer A Lewis.
Advanced Materials, 26, 6307-6312 (2014).

Featured on the Front Cover

Link | Front Cover

6.

3D Bioprinting of Vascularized Heterogeneous Cell-Laden Tissue Constructs. 
David B. Kolesky, Ryan L. Truby, A. Sydney Gladman, Travis A. Busbee, Kimberly A. Homan, Jennifer A. Lewis.
Advanced Materials, 26, 3124-3130 (2014).

Featured on the Inside Front Cover

Link | Inside Front Cover | Harvard SEAS | MIT Tech Review | Wall Street Journal | The New Yorker

5.

Contrast-enhanced magneto-photo-acoustic imaging in vivo using dual-contrast nanoparticles.
Min Qu, Mohammad Mehrmohammadi, Ryan L. Truby, Iulia Graf, Kimberly Homan, Stanislav Emelianov.
Photoacouostics, 2, 55-62 (2014).

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4.

In vivo Pulsed Magneto-motive Ultrasound Imaging Using High-Performance Magnetoactive Contrast Agents.
Mohammad Mehrmohammadi, Tae-Hyun Shin, Min Qu, Pieter Kruizinga, Ryan L. Truby, Jae-Hyun Lee, Jinwoo Cheon, Stanislav Y. Emelianov.
Nanoscale, 5, 11179-11186 (2013).

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3.

Ligand-mediated Self-Assembly of Hybrid Plasmonic and Superparamagnetic Nanostructures.
Ryan L. Truby, Stanislav Emelianov, Kimberly A. Homan.
Langmuir, 29, 2465-2470 (2013).

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2.

Silver Nanoplate Contrast Agents for in Vivo Molecular Photoacoustic Imaging.
Kimberly A. Homan, Michael Souza, Ryan L. Truby, Geoffrey P. Luke, Christopher Green, Erika Vreeland, Stanislav Emelianov.
ACS Nano, 6, 641-650 (2012).

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Magneto-photo-acoustic imaging.
Min Qu, Srivalleesha Mallidi, Mohammad Mehrmohammadi, Ryan L. Truby, Kimberly Homan, Pratixa Joshi, Yun-Sheng Chen, Konstantin Sokolov, Stanislav Emelianov.
Biomedical Optics Express, 2, 385-395 (2011).

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Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

5.

Machine Learning Best Practices for Soft Robot Proprioception.
Annan Zhang, Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Ryan L. Truby, Lillian Chin, Daniela Rus.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2564-2571, (2023).

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4.

Automated Gait Generation for Walking, Soft Robotic Quadrupeds.
Jake Ketchum, Sophia Schiffer, Munchen Sun, Pranav Kaarthik, Ryan L. Truby, Todd D. Murphey.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 10245-10251, (2023).

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3.

Modelling Handed Shearing Auxetics: Selective Piecewise Constant Strain Kinematics and Dynamic Simulation.
Maximilian Stölzle, Lillian Chin, Ryan L. Truby, Daniela Rus, Cosimo Della Santina.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 1-8 (2023).

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2.

Soft Robotic Fingers with Embedded Ionogel Sensors and Discrete Actuation Modes for Somatosensitive Manipulation.

Ryan L. Truby, Robert K. Katzschmann, Jennifer A. Lewis, Daniela Rus.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 322-329 (2019).

Winner of the Outstanding Paper Award

Link | IEEE

1.

Magneto-photo-acoustic imaging using dual-contrast agent.

Min Qu, Mohammad Mehrmohammadi, Ryan L. Truby, Kimberly Homan, Stanislav Emelianov.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, 511-514 (2010).

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Journal Perspectives, Viewpoints, & Editorials

2.

Designing Soft Robots as Robotic Materials.
Ryan L. Truby
Accounts of Materials Research, 2, 854-857 (2021).

Featured on the Front Cover

Link | Front Cover

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Integrating chemical fuels and artificial muscles for untethered microrobots.
Ryan L. Truby*, Shuguang Li*.
Science Robotics, 5, eabd7338 (2020).

* These authors contributed equally.

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Issued Patents

3.

Tubular Tissue Construct and a Method of Printing.
Jennifer A. Lewis, Kimberly A. Homan, David B. Kolesky, Ryan L. Truby, Mark A. Skylar-Scott.
US 10,702,630 B2.

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2.

Printed Stretchable Strain Sensor.
Jennifer A. Lewis, Joseph T. Muth, Daniel M. Vogt, Ryan L. Truby, Yigit Mengüc, David B. Kolesky, Robert J. Wood.
US 10,151,649 B2.

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Method of Printing a Tissue Construct with Embedded Vasculature.
Jennifer A. Lewis, David B. Kolesky, Mark A. Skylar-Scott, Kimberly A. Homan, Ryan L. Truby, A. Sydney Gladman.
US 10,117,968 B2.

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Dissertations and Theses

1.

Embedded Three-Dimensional Printing of Autonomous and Somatosensitive Soft Robots.
Ryan L. Truby.
PhD Dissertation, Harvard University (2018).

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