Dr. Zoey Davidson

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsExperimental Condensed Matter Physics
Keywordsrobotics, liquid crystals, soft matter

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityPhiladelphia
InstitutionUniversity of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
InstituteDepartment of Physics and Astronomy

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Metin SittiAbteilung Physische Intelligenz, Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Stuttgart
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2017

Programme(s)

2017Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2021Jiachen Zhang, Yubing Guo, Wenqi Hu, Ren Hao Soon, Zoey S. Davidson, and Metin Sitti: Liquid Crystal Elastomer-Based Magnetic Composite Films for Reconfigurable Shape-Morphing Soft Miniature Machines. In: Advanced Materials, 33, 2021, 2006191
2020Hamed Shahsavan, Amirreza Aghakhani, Hao Zeng, Yubing Guo, Zoey S Davidson, Arri Priimagi, Metin Sitti: Bioinspired underwater locomotion of light-driven liquid crystal gels. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020, 5125-5133
2020Utku Culha, Zoey S. Davidson, Massimo Mastrangeli, and Metin Sitti: Statistical Reprogramming of Macroscopic Self-Assembly with Dynamic Boundaries. In: PNAS, 117, 2020, 11306--11313
2020Zoey S. Davidson, Nadia Kapernaum, Jonathan Fiene, Frank Giesselmann, and Metin Sitti: Twisting and Untwisting of Twisted Nematic Elastomers. In: Phys. Rev. Materials, 4, 2020, 105601
2019Zoey S Davidson, Hamed Shahsavan, Amirreza Aghakhani, Yubing Guo, Lindsey Hines, Yu Xia, Shu Yang, Metin Sitti: Monolithic shape-programmable dielectric liquid crystal elastomer actuators. In: Science Advances, 2019, eaay0855
2019Yubing Guo, Hamed Shahsavan, Zoey S Davidson, Metin Sitti: Precise Control of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal Alignment through Surface Topography. In: ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2019, 36110-36117