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Overview

James C. Weaver is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple fields within engineering, with a focus on topics related to advanced materials and mechanics, additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies, as well as aspects of cephalopods and marine biology and microbial inactivation methods.

The main fields of study associated with Weaver include:

  • Engineering

The scientist's subfields of study cover diverse areas such as:

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Biotechnology

Notable topics in Weaver's research encompass:

  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
  • Cephalopods and Marine Biology
  • Microbial Inactivation Methods

Weaver has published research articles in journals including PNAS Nexus and Bioelectrochemistry. The recent papers include:

  • Design and fabrication of a parasite-inspired, millimeter-scale tissue anchoring mechanism, 2024, PNAS Nexus
  • Corrigendum to "Charged microbeads are not transported across the human stratum corneum in vitro by short high-voltage pulses" [Bioelectrochem. Bioenerget. 48(1) (1999) 181-192], 2025, Bioelectrochemistry

Frequent co-authors of Weaver include Gabriel Maquignaz, Rachel Zoll, Michael Karpelson, Robert J. Wood, and Tani Chen.

Best Publications

  • Hydrogels with tunable stress relaxation regulate stem cell fate and activity

    Ovijit Chaudhuri;Ovijit Chaudhuri;Ovijit Chaudhuri;Luo Gu;Luo Gu;Darinka Klumpers;Darinka Klumpers;Darinka Klumpers;Max Darnell;Max Darnell

  • Theory of electroporation: A review

    James C. Weaver;Yu.A. Chizmadzhev

  • Skeleton of Euplectella sp.: Structural Hierarchy from the Nanoscale to the Macroscale

    Joanna Aizenberg;James C. Weaver;James C. Weaver;James C. Weaver;Monica S. Thanawala;Monica S. Thanawala;Monica S. Thanawala;Vikram C. Sundar;Vikram C. Sundar;Vikram C. Sundar

  • Sacrificial bonds and hidden length dissipate energy as mineralized fibrils separate during bone fracture.

    Georg E. Fantner;Tue Hassenkam;Johannes H. Kindt;James C. Weaver

  • The stomatopod dactyl club : a formidable damage-tolerant biological hammer

    James C. Weaver;Garrett W. Milliron;Ali Miserez;Kenneth Evans-Lutterodt

  • Electroporation: A general phenomenon for manipulating cells and tissues

    James C. Weaver

  • 3D Soft Metamaterials with Negative Poisson's Ratio

    Sahab Babaee;Jongmin Shim;James C. Weaver;Elizabeth R. Chen

  • Substrate stress relaxation regulates cell spreading

    Ovijit Chaudhuri;Luo Gu;Max Carlton Darnell;Darinka Klumpers

  • Condensation on slippery asymmetric bumps

    Kyoo-Chul Park;Philseok Kim;Alison Elizabeth Grinthal;Neil He

  • Harnessing buckling to design tunable locally resonant acoustic metamaterials.

    Pai Wang;Filippo Casadei;Sicong Shan;James C. Weaver

  • Electroporation of cells and tissues

    J.C. Weaver

  • Transport of molecules across tissue using electroporation.

    James C. Weaver;Kevin T. Powell;Robert S. Langer

  • Effect of electric field and ultrasound for transdermal drug delivery

    Joseph Kost;Uwe Pliquett;Samir S. Mitragotri;Robert S. Langer

  • Biomimetic shark skin: design, fabrication and hydrodynamic function

    Li Wen;James C Weaver;George V Lauder

  • Mature induced-pluripotent-stem-cell-derived human podocytes reconstitute kidney glomerular-capillary-wall function on a chip

    Samira Musah;Akiko Mammoto;Thomas C. Ferrante;Sauveur S. F. Jeanty

  • Preventing mussel adhesion using lubricant-infused materials

    Shahrouz Amini;Stefan Kolle;Stefan Kolle;Luigi Petrone;Onyemaechi Ahanotu

  • Theory of electroporation of planar bilayer membranes: predictions of the aqueous area, change in capacitance, and pore-pore separation

    S.A. Freeman;M.A. Wang;J.C. Weaver

  • The response of living cells to very weak electric fields: the thermal noise limit

    JC Weaver;RD Astumian

  • A three-dimensional actuated origami-inspired transformable metamaterial with multiple degrees of freedom

    Johannes T.B. Overvelde;Twan A. de Jong;Yanina Shevchenko;Sergio A. Becerra

  • Ultra-sensitive and resilient compliant strain gauges for soft machines.

    Oluwaseun A. Araromi;Moritz A. Graule;Kristen L. Dorsey;Sam Castellanos

  • Apparatus and method for electroporation of tissue

    James C. Weaver;Uwe Pliquett;Timothy Vaughan

Frequent Co-Authors

Katia Bertoldi
Katia Bertoldi Harvard University
David J. Mooney
David J. Mooney Harvard University
Joanna Aizenberg
Joanna Aizenberg Harvard University
Donald E. Ingber
Donald E. Ingber Harvard University
Robert J. Wood
Robert J. Wood Harvard University
Peter Fratzl
Peter Fratzl Max Planck Society
Paul K. Hansma
Paul K. Hansma University of California, Santa Barbara
Mark R. Prausnitz
Mark R. Prausnitz Georgia Institute of Technology

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