Writing

General Audience

• Thomas Young, Polymath, Bioengineer, and Interdisciplinary Pioneer (starts page 100), Emmanuel College Magazine [2017]
• Dreaming Big with Biomimetics, The Conversation UK [2016]
• Thomas Young’s Surprising Contribution to Biomechanics, The Royal Society Blog [2015]
• Artificial Whiskers, The Conversation UK [2015]
• Nature must remain at the heart of engineering solutions, The Conversation UK [2014]
• Spider silk is a wonder of nature but it’s not stronger than steel, The Conversation UK [2013]
• Academic Mentoring, Nature.com blogs [2012]

Technical Literature

Full Google Scholar Publications List

Selected recent publications:

• Premature Rupture of Membranes and Severe Weather Systems, Frontiers in Physiology 11 (2020) 524.
• Relationship between permeability and diffusivity in polyethylene glycol hydrogels, AIP Advances 8 (2018) 105006.
• The viscoelastic response of electrospun poly(vinyl alcohol) mats, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 77 (2018) 383-88.
• A microfluidics assay to study invasion of human placental trophoblast cells, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 14 (2017) 20170131.
• Interrelated chemical-microstructural-nanomechanical variations in the structural units of the cuttlebone of Sepia officinalis, APL Materials 5, (2017) 116103.
• Cartilage-like electrostatic stiffening of responsive cryogel scaffolds, Scientific Reports 7 (2017) 42948.
• Strong and tough nanofibrous hydrogel composites based on biomimetic principles, Materials Science and Engineering C, 72 (2017) 220-7.