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2025

Journal Articles

Material-like robotic collectives with spatiotemporal control of strength and shape

M. R. Devlin; S. Kim; O. CampĂ s; E. W. Hawkes 

Science. 2025. Vol. 387, num. 6736, p. 880 – 885. DOI : 10.1126/science.ads7942.

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The physical roles of different posterior tissues in zebrafish axis elongation

G. A. Stooke-Vaughan; S. Kim; S-T. Yen; K. Son; S. P. Banavar et al. 

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2025. Vol. 16, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-025-56334-7.

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2024

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A nuclear jamming transition in vertebrate organogenesis

S. Kim; R. Amini; S-T. Yen; P. Pospisil; A. Boutillon et al. 

NATURE MATERIALS. 2024. Vol. 23, num. 11. DOI : 10.1038/s41563-024-01972-3.

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Exceptionally dense and resilient critically jammed polydisperse disk packings

S. Kim; S. Hilgenfeldt 

Soft matter. 2024. Vol. 20, num. 28, p. 5598 – 5606. DOI : 10.1039/d4sm00426d.

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Proliferation-driven mechanical compression induces signalling centre formation during mammalian organ development

N. P. Shroff; P. Xu; S. Kim; E. R. Shelton; B. J. Gross et al. 

Nature Cell Biology. 2024. DOI : 10.1038/s41556-024-01380-4.

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2023

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In situ quantification of osmotic pressure within living embryonic tissues

A. Vian; M. Pochitaloff; S-T. Yen; S. Kim; J. Pollock et al. 

Nature Communications. 2023. Vol. 14, num. 7023, p. 1 – 10. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-023-42024-9.

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2022

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Structural Measures as Guides to Ultrastable States in Overjammed Packings

S. Kim; S. Hilgenfeldt 

Physical Review Letters. 2022. Vol. 129, p. 168001. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.168001.

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Mechanics of the cellular microenvironment as probed by cells in vivo during zebrafish presomitic mesoderm differentiation

A. Mongera; M. Pochitaloff; H. J. Gustafson; G. A. Stooke-Vaughan; P. Rowghanian et al. 

Nature Materials. 2022. Vol. 22, num. 1, p. 135 – 143. DOI : 10.1038/s41563-022-01433-9.

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2021

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Mechanical control of tissue shape and morphogenetic flows during vertebrate body axis elongation

S. P. Banavar; E. K. Carn; P. Rowghanian; G. Stooke-Vaughan; S. Kim et al. 

Scientific Reports. 2021. Vol. 11, p. 8591 (2021). DOI : 10.1038/s41598-021-87672-3.

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Embryonic tissues as active foams

S. Kim; M. Pochitaloff; G. A. Stooke-Vaughan; O. CampĂ s 

Nature Physics. 2021. Vol. 17, num. 7, p. 859 – 866. DOI : 10.1038/s41567-021-01215-1.

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2019

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A simple landscape of metastable state energies for two-dimensional cellular matter

S. Kim; S. Hilgenfeldt 

Soft Matter. 2019. Vol. 15, num. 2, p. 237 – 242. DOI : 10.1039/C8SM01921E.

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2018

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Universal Features of Metastable State Energies in Cellular Matter

S. Kim; Y. Wang; S. Hilgenfeldt 

Physical Review Letters. 2018. Vol. 120, num. 24. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.248001.

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2016

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Hexagonal Patterning of the Insect Compound Eye: Facet Area Variation, Defects, and Disorder

S. Kim; J. J. Cassidy; B. Yang; R. W. Carthew; S. Hilgenfeldt 

Biophysical Journal. 2016. Vol. 111, num. 12, p. 2735 – 2746. DOI : 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.11.004.

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2015

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Cell shapes and patterns as quantitative indicators of tissue stress in the plant epidermis

S. Kim; S. Hilgenfeldt 

Soft Matter. 2015. Vol. 11, num. 37, p. 7270 – 7275. DOI : 10.1039/C5SM01563D.

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Heterogeneous vesicles: an analytical approach to equilibrium shapes

S. Kim; S. Hilgenfeldt 

Soft Matter. 2015. Vol. 11, num. 46, p. 8920 – 8929. DOI : 10.1039/C5SM02245B.

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2014

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Lewis’ law revisited: the role of anisotropy in size–topology correlations

S. Kim; M. Cai; S. Hilgenfeldt 

New Journal of Physics. 2014. Vol. 16, num. 1, p. 015024. DOI : 10.1088/1367-2630/16/1/015024.

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