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Katia Bertoldi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology · US
Area of research
Mechanics of Materials · Ocean Engineering
Research interest
Research interests include Materials science, Metamaterial, Actuator, Soft robotics, Computer science, and Buckling.
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citations
18,158
works
57
NIH funding
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Recent publications

Squeaking at soft–rigid frictional interfaces
Nature 2026cited by 3position: lastdoi
Shell buckling for programmable metafluids
Nature 2024cited by 47position: lastdoi
3D spatiotemporally scalable in vivo neural probes based on fluorinated elastomers
Nature Nanotechnology 2023cited by 95position: middledoi
Programming 3D Curves with Discretely Constrained Cylindrical Inflatables
Advanced Materials 2023cited by 24position: middledoi
Inverse Design of Mechanical Metamaterials with Target Nonlinear Response via a Neural Accelerated Evolution Strategy
Advanced Materials 2022cited by 178position: lastdoi
Inflatable Origami: Multimodal Deformation via Multistability
Advanced Functional Materials 2022cited by 130position: lastdoi
Inverse Design of Inflatable Soft Membranes Through Machine Learning
Advanced Functional Materials 2022cited by 55position: lastdoi
Multistable inflatable origami structures at the metre scale
Nature 2021cited by 414position: lastdoi
Microstructural design for mechanical–optical multifunctionality in the exoskeleton of the flower beetle <i>Torynorrhina flammea</i>
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021cited by 41position: middledoi
Mechanically robust lattices inspired by deep-sea glass sponges
Nature Materials 2020cited by 325position: lastdoi
Octopus Arm-Inspired Tapered Soft Actuators with Suckers for Improved Grasping
Soft Robotics 2020cited by 320position: middledoi
Guided transition waves in multistable mechanical metamaterials
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020cited by 265position: middledoi
Kirigami‐Inspired Inflatables with Programmable Shapes
Advanced Materials 2020cited by 253position: lastdoi
Inflatable soft jumper inspired by shell snapping
Science Robotics 2020cited by 250position: lastdoi
Bioinspired kirigami metasurfaces as assistive shoe grips
Nature Biomedical Engineering 2020cited by 101position: middledoi
Geometric charges and nonlinear elasticity of two-dimensional elastic metamaterials
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020cited by 37position: middledoi
Programming soft robots with flexible mechanical metamaterials
Science Robotics 2019cited by 236position: middledoi
Reconfigurable soft body trajectories using unidirectionally stretchable composite laminae
Nature Communications 2019cited by 107position: middledoi
Nonlinear transition waves in free-standing bistable chains
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 2019cited by 51position: lastdoi
Kirigami skins make a simple soft actuator crawl
Science Robotics 2018cited by 597position: lastdoi
Metamaterials with amplitude gaps for elastic solitons
Nature Communications 2018cited by 143position: lastdoi
Effect of predeformation on the propagation of vector solitons in flexible mechanical metamaterials
Physical review. E 2018cited by 30position: lastdoi
Flexible mechanical metamaterials
Nature Reviews Materials 2017cited by 1,704position: firstdoi
Rational design of reconfigurable prismatic architected materials
Nature 2017cited by 346position: lastdoi
Buckling-Induced Kirigami
Physical Review Letters 2017cited by 296position: lastdoi
Origami Metamaterials for Tunable Thermal Expansion
Advanced Materials 2017cited by 243position: lastdoi
Exploiting Microstructural Instabilities in Solids and Structures: From Metamaterials to Structural Transitions
Applied Mechanics Reviews 2017cited by 241position: lastdoi
Elastic Vector Solitons in Soft Architected Materials
Physical Review Letters 2017cited by 109position: lastdoi
Motion microscopy for visualizing and quantifying small motions
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2017cited by 90position: middledoi
Automatic design of fiber-reinforced soft actuators for trajectory matching
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016cited by 497position: lastdoi

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Frequent collaborators

James C. Weaver · Harvard University11 papers (2013–2022) · 9 papers (2012–2017)Pai Wang · Jilin University9 papers (2014–2019)Ahmad Rafsanjani · McGill University6 papers (2017–2020)Bolei Deng · Massachusetts Institute of Technology5 papers (2018–2022)Benjamin Gorissen · KU Leuven5 papers (2020–2024) · 5 papers (2017–2020)George M. Whitesides · Harvard University4 papers (2014–2016) · 4 papers (2012–2014) · 4 papers (2014–2016)Sung Hoon Kang · Johns Hopkins University4 papers (2015–2017)David Melancon · McGill University3 papers (2020–2022)Jordan R. Raney · California Institute of Technology3 papers (2015–2017)Bobak Mosadegh · Cornell University3 papers (2014–2015) · 3 papers (2020–2022)Dennis M. Kochmann · California Institute of Technology3 papers (2016–2020)Sahab Babaee · Massachusetts Institute of Technology3 papers (2013–2020) · 3 papers (2016–2021)Antonio Elia Forte · University of Oxford3 papers (2020–2022)Conor J. Walsh · Harvard University3 papers (2013–2015)