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Chiara Daraio is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research focuses on engineering, with significant contributions to several subfields including biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, biomaterials, and civil and structural engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Cellular and Composite Structures
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Nonlinear Photonic Systems
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence

Chiara Daraio has published extensively, including recent papers such as:

  • "Nonreciprocity in acoustic and elastic materials," 2020, Nature Reviews Materials
  • "Structured fabrics with tunable mechanical properties," 2021, Nature
  • "Robotic surfaces with reversible, spatiotemporal control for shape morphing and object manipulation," 2021, Science Robotics
  • "Growth rules for irregular architected materials with programmable properties," 2022, Science
  • "Programming temporal morphing of self-actuated shells," 2020, Nature Communications

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Paolo Celli
  • Tommaso Magrini
  • Brian Kim
  • Jagannadh Boddapati
  • Alexander C. Ogren

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Applied Physics Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Extreme Mechanics Letters
  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Best Publications

  • Bifurcation-based acoustic switching and rectification

    N. Boechler;G. Theocharis;C. Daraio

  • Growth of nano-scale hydroxyapatite using chemically treated titanium oxide nanotubes.

    Seung-Han Oh;Rita R. Finõnes;Chiara Daraio;Li-Han Chen

  • Significantly accelerated osteoblast cell growth on aligned TiO2 nanotubes.

    Seunghan Oh;Chiara Daraio;Li-Han Chen;Thomas R. Pisanic

  • Composite 3D-printed metastructures for low-frequency and broadband vibration absorption

    Kathryn H. Matlack;Anton Bauhofer;Sebastian Krödel;Antonio Palermo

  • Microstructures to control elasticity in 3D printing

    Christian Schumacher;Bernd Bickel;Jan Rys;Steve Marschner

  • Nonreciprocity in acoustic and elastic materials

    Hussein Nassar;Behrooz Yousefzadeh;Romain Fleury;Massimo Ruzzene

  • Tunability of solitary wave properties in one-dimensional strongly nonlinear phononic crystals.

    C. Daraio;V. F. Nesterenko;E. B. Herbold;S. Jin

  • Stable propagation of mechanical signals in soft media using stored elastic energy.

    Jordan R. Raney;Neel Nadkarni;Chiara Daraio;Chiara Daraio;Dennis M. Kochmann

  • Strongly nonlinear waves in a chain of Teflon beads.

    C. Daraio;V. F. Nesterenko;E. B. Herbold;S. Jin

  • Energy trapping and shock disintegration in a composite granular medium.

    C. Daraio;V. F. Nesterenko;E. B. Herbold;S. Jin

  • Anomalous wave reflection at the interface of two strongly nonlinear granular media.

    V. F. Nesterenko;C. Daraio;E. B. Herbold;S. Jin

  • Structured fabrics with tunable mechanical properties.

    Yifan Wang;Yifan Wang;Liuchi Li;Douglas Hofmann;José E. Andrade

  • Discrete Breathers in One-Dimensional Diatomic Granular Crystals

    N. Boechler;G. Theocharis;G. Theocharis;Stéphane Job;P. G. Kevrekidis

  • Engineered metabarrier as shield from seismic surface waves.

    Antonio Palermo;Sebastian Krödel;Alessandro Marzani;Chiara Daraio

  • Novel electrical switching behaviour and logic in carbon nanotube Y-junctions

    P. R. Bandaru;C. Daraio;S. Jin;A. M. Rao

  • Wide band-gap seismic metastructures

    S. Krödel;N. Thomé;N. Thomé;C. Daraio;C. Daraio

  • Bistable metamaterial for switching and cascading elastic vibrations

    Osama R. Bilal;André Foehr;Chiara Daraio

  • Designing perturbative metamaterials from discrete models.

    Kathryn H. Matlack;Marc Serra-Garcia;Antonio Palermo;Sebastian D. Huber

  • Mechanical properties of parts fabricated with inkjet 3D printing through efficient experimental design

    Jochen Mueller;Kristina Shea;Chiara Daraio

  • Optimal Design of Composite Granular Protectors

    Fernando Fraternali;Mason A. Porter;Chiara Daraio

Frequent Co-Authors

Sungho Jin
Sungho Jin University of California, San Diego
Jinkyu Yang
Jinkyu Yang Seoul National University
Fernando Fraternali
Fernando Fraternali University of Salerno
Vitali F. Nesterenko
Vitali F. Nesterenko University of California, San Diego
Mason A. Porter
Mason A. Porter University of California, Los Angeles
Panayotis G. Kevrekidis
Panayotis G. Kevrekidis University of Massachusetts Amherst
Alessandro Marzani
Alessandro Marzani University of Bologna
Nicola Pugno
Nicola Pugno University of Trento
Apparao M. Rao
Apparao M. Rao Clemson University

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