Publications

Books

Journal articles

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  1. Jawed, M. K., Hadjiconstantinou, N., Parks, D., Reis, P., “Patterns of carbon nanotubes by flow directed deposition on substrates with architectured topographies” Nano Letters 18:3, 1660-1667 (2018)
  2. Bell, M., Pestovski, I., Scott, W., Kumar, K., Jawed, M. K., Paley, D., Majidi, C., Weaver, J., Wood, R., “Echinoderm-inspired tube feet for robust locomotion and adhesion” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3:3, 2222-2228 (2018)
  3. Baek, C., Sageman-Furnas, A., Jawed, M. K., Reis, P., “Form-finding in elastic gridshells” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115:1, 75-80 (2018)
  4. Jawed, M. K., Reis, P., “Dynamics of a flexible helical filament rotating in a viscous fluid near a rigid boundary” Physical Review Fluids 2:3, 034101 (2017)
  5. Jawed, M. K., Reis, P., “Deformation of a soft helical filament in an axial flow at low Reynolds number” Soft Matter 12, 1898-1905 (2016)
  6. Jawed, M. K., Khouri, N., Da, F., Grinspun, E., Reis, P., “Propulsion and instability of flexible helical rod rotating in viscous fluid” Physical Review Letters 115:16, 168101 (2015)
    Press coverage: Physics Synopsis
  7. Jawed, M. K., Dieleman, P., Audoly, B., Reis, P., “Untangling the mechanics and topology in the frictional response of long overhand elastic knots” Physical Review Letters 115:11, 118302 (2015)
    Press coverage: Science, selected for Physical Review Focus, Nature Physics, MIT News,  Featured as  Today’s Spotlight on MIT Homepage on 09/09/2015, Science Daily,  Gizmodo, Sueddeutsche Zeitung (in German), Le Monde (in French)
  8. Jawed, M. K., Brun, P. T., Reis, P., “A geometric model for the coiling of an elastic rod deployed onto a moving substrate” Journal of Applied Mechanics 82:12, 121007 (2015)
  9. Jawed, M. K., Reis, P., “Pattern morphology in the elastic sewing machine” Extreme Mechanics Letters 1, 76-82 (2014)
    Inaugural issue of Extreme Mechanics Letters
  10. Jawed, M. K., Da, F., Jungseock, J., Grinspun, E., Reis, P., “Coiling of elastic rods on rigid substrates” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111:41, 14663-14668 (2014)
    Press coverage: MIT News, Columbia Engineering,
    Science Daily, Nanowerk,  Phys.org

Conference proceedings and presentations

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[First and second author only]

  1. Huang, W., Jawed, M. K., “Buckling instability for direction control in biomimetic soft robots”, American Physical Society March Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. March 5-9, 2018.
  2. Jawed, M. K., Batzorig, A., Majidi, C., “A Versatile and Robust Soft Rolling Robot Driven by Shape Memory Alloy”, American Physical Society March Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. March 5-9, 2018.
  3. Jawed, M. K., Huang, X., Batzorig, A., Majidi, C., “Computational tools for data-driven design of soft robots”, American Physical Society March Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. March 5-9, 2018.
  4. Majidi, C., Jawed, M. K., Kazem, N., “Soft-matter electronics and multifunctional materials with polydisperse liquid metal suspensions”, IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, San Diego, CA. July 9-14, 2017.
  5. Baek, C., Jawed, M. K., Sageman-Furnas, A., Reis, P., “Form-finding through buckling in elastic gridshells”, 53rd Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, College Park, MD. October 2-5, 2016.
  6. Jawed, M. K., Karimi, H., Reis, P., “Dynamics and propulsion of a rotating flexible helical rod near a no-slip rigid boundary“, American Physical Society March Meeting, Baltimore, MD. March 14-18, 2016.
  7. Strong, E., Jawed, M. K., Reis, P., “Fluid-structure interaction of reticulated porous wings“, American Physical Society March Meeting, Baltimore, MD. March 14-18, 2016.
  8. Jawed, M. K., Reis, P., “Propulsion of flexible helical flagella near a rigid boundary“, Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, Boston, MA. November 22-24, 2015.
  9. Reis, P., Jawed, M. K., Khouri, N., Da, F., Grinspun, E., “Propulsion and instability of flexible helical flagella”, European Solid Mechanics Conference, Madrid, Spain. July 6-10, 2015.
  10. Jawed, M. K., Khouri, N., Da, F., Grinspun, E., Reis, P., “Propulsion and instability of flexible helical flagella”, Fluid and Elasticity, Biarritz, France. June 22-24, 2015.
  11. Jawed, M. K., Brun, P.-T., Reis, P., “Coiling of rods from a geometric perspective“, American Physical Society March Meeting, San Antonio, TX. March 2-6, 2015.
  12. Reis, P., Jawed, M. K., Dieleman, P., Audoly, B., “Untangling the mechanics versus topology of overhand knots“, American Physical Society March Meeting, San Antonio, TX. March 2-6, 2015.
  13. Khouri, N., Jawed, M. K., Da, F., Grinspun, E., Reis, P., “Propulsion and instability of flexible helical flagella“, American Physical Society March Meeting, San Antonio, TX. March 2-6, 2015.
  14. Khouri, N., Jawed, M. K., Da, F., Grinspun, E., Reis, P., “The propulsion of filaments with natural curls”, New England Workshop on the Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Amherst, MA. October 18, 2014.
  15. Jawed, M. K., Khouri, N., Da, F., Grinspun, E., Reis, P., “The propulsion of filaments with natural curls”, 17th US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, East Lansing, MI. June 15-20, 2014.
  16. Jawed, M. K., Da, F., Grinspun, E., Reis, P., “Coiling of rods on moving substrates“, American Physical Society March Meeting, Denver, CO. March 3-7, 2014. Winner of GSNP Student Speaker Award
  17. Khouri, N., Jawed, M. K., Da, F., Grinspun, E., Reis, P., “The propulsion of filaments with natural curls“, American Physical Society March Meeting, Denver, CO. March 3-7, 2014.
  18. Shearer, P., Jawed, M. K., Raines, J. M., Lepri, S. T., Gilbert, J. A., von Steiger, R., Zurbuchen, T. H., “A rigorous statistical approach to determine solar wind composition from ACE/SWICS data, and new Ne/O ratios”, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. December 9-13, 2013.
  19. Jawed, M. K., Da, F., Grinspun, E., Reis, P., “Coiling of thin elastic rods deployed onto moving substrates”, New England Workshop on the Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Boston, MA. October 12, 2013.
  20. Jawed, M. K., Da, F., Grinspun, E., Reis, P., “Pattern formation by deposition of a thin elastic rod on a moving substrate“, American Physical Society March Meeting, Baltimore, MD. March 18-22, 2013.

Thesis

  1. “Coiling of elastic rods on rigid substrates“, S.M. Thesis at MIT (2014)
  2. “Geometrically nonlinear configurations in rod-like structures“, Ph.D. thesis at MIT (2016)

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