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Jordan R. Raney

Jordan R. Raney

· Associate Professor Graduate Group Chair

University of Pennsylvania · Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Active 2011–2026

h-index26
Citations4.0k
Papers8241 last 5y
Funding$1.5M1 active

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Research topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science
  • Materials science
  • Engineering
  • Nanotechnology
  • Electrical engineering
  • Composite material
  • Algorithm
  • Physics
  • Mechanical engineering

Selected publications

  • Mechanical metamaterials and beyond

    Nature Communications · 2023 · 577 citations

    Mechanical metamaterials enable the creation of structural materials with unprecedented mechanical properties. However, thus far, research on mechanical metamaterials has focused on passive mechanical metamaterials and the tunability of their mechanical properties. Deep integration of multifunctionality, sensing, electrical actuation, information processing, and advancing data-driven designs are grand challenges in the mechanical metamaterials community that could lead to truly intelligent mecha…

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  • Mechanical computing

    Nature · 2021 · 259 citations

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  • 3D‐Printed Photoresponsive Liquid Crystal Elastomer Composites for Free‐Form Actuation

    Advanced Functional Materials · 2022 · 194 citations

    Abstract Direct ink writing of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) offers a new opportunity to program geometries for a wide variety of shape transformation modes toward applications such as soft robotics. So far, most 3D‐printed LCEs are thermally actuated. Herein, a 3D‐printable photoresponsive gold nanorod (AuNR)/LCE composite ink is developed, allowing for photothermal actuation of the 3D‐printed structures with AuNR as low as 0.1 wt.%. It is shown that the printed filament has a superior photo…

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  • Programmable responsive metamaterials for mechanical computing and robotics

    Nature Computational Science · 2024-08-27 · 39 citations

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  • Phase transitions in 2D multistable mechanical metamaterials via collisions of soliton-like pulses

    Nature Communications · 2024-01-06 · 30 citations

    articleOpen accessSenior author

    In recent years, mechanical metamaterials have been developed that support the propagation of an intriguing variety of nonlinear waves, including transition waves and vector solitons (solitons with coupling between multiple degrees of freedom). Here we report observations of phase transitions in 2D multistable mechanical metamaterials that are initiated by collisions of soliton-like pulses in the metamaterial. Analogous to first-order phase transitions in crystalline solids, we observe that the…

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Frequent coauthors

  • Chiara Daraio

    Meta (United States)

    26 shared

  • Vincent Tournat

    Le Mans Université

    22 shared

  • Hiromi Yasuda

    Institute of Space and Astronautical Science

    20 shared

  • Chengyang Mo

    University of Pennsylvania

    15 shared

  • Jennifer A. Lewis

    15 shared

  • Katia Bertoldi

    13 shared

  • Jinkyu Yang

    10 shared

  • Hang Shu

    University of Pennsylvania

    9 shared

Education

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering

    University of California, Berkeley

    2003

  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering

    University of California, Berkeley

    1999

  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering

    University of California, Berkeley

    1997

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