Publications

Growth

2025

 

j296

Pavanjit Chaggar, Jacob W. Vogel, Alexa Pichet Binette, Travis B. Thompson, Olof Strandberg, Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren, Linda Karlsson, Erik Stomrud, Saad Jbabdi, Stefano Magon, Gregory Klein, with the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Oskar Hansson, Alain Goriely, Personalised Regional Modelling Predicts Tau Progression in the Human Brain, PLOS Biology, 2025.

 

j294

Bing Qi, Shujuan Lina, Yaohua Guoa, Linglin Fenga, Lijun Sua, Yang Liuc, Alain Goriely, Tian Jian Lua, Shaobao Liu, Local resonance of mechanosensitive channels, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 2025.

 

j293

Yang Liu, Rui-Cheng Liu, Wanyu Ma, Alain Goriely, Post-buckling of fiber-reinforced soft tissues, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 2025

 

j292

Yuqi Xiao, Leah Edelstein-Keshet, Alain Goriely, and Kathryn V Isaac, A Mechanical Model for the Failure of Reconstructive Breast Implant Surgery Due to Capsular Contracture, Bull. Math. Biology, 2025.

 

j291

Christoforos Kassianides, Alain Goriely, and Hadrien Oliveri, The multiscale mechanics of axon durotaxis, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 2025.

j290

Derek Moulton, Alain Goriely, Régis Chirat, Hierarchical mechanical patterns in morphogenesis: from mollusc shells to plants, fungi and animals, Journal of the Royal Society Interface 22 (227), 20240918

 

j289

Jose A. Sanz-Herrera and Alain Goriely, Physics-informed recovery of nonlinear residual stress fields in an inverse continuum framework, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 2025.

 

j279

Finn Box, Derek E. Moulton, Dominic Vella, Yuvraj Bhagotra, Tristan Lowe, Alain Goriely, and Chris Thorogood. Uncovering the mechanical secrets of the squirting cucumber. Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. (PNAS), 2024.

j277

Hadrien Oliveri, Thomas Lessinnes, Derek Moulton, and Alain Goriely. Soft Chirality. Review of Modern Physics. 2024

2024

 

j274

Bartosz Kacsmarski, Derek Moulton, Alain Goriely, and Ellen Kuhl. Minimal activation with maximal reach:
Reachability clouds of bio-inspired slender manipulators
. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 2024.

 

j273

Gábor Domokos, Alain Goriely, Ákos G Horváth, Krisztina Regős. Soft cells and the geometry of seashells. PNAS Nexus. 2024

 

j272

Christoffer G. Alexandersen, Alain Goriely, and Christian Bick. Neuronal activity induces symmetry breaking in neurodegenerative disease spreading. J. Math. Biology. 2024.

 

j270

Hadrien Oliveri, Derek Moulton, Heather Harrington, and Alain Goriely. Active shape control by plants in dynamic environments. Phys. Rev. E. 2024.

 

j264

Hadrien Oliveri and Alain Goriely. Corrections to: Mathematical models of neuronal growth. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. 2024.

 

j263

Z.M. Wilmott, A. Goriely, J. Raff. A simple Turing reaction-diffusion model explains how PLK4 breaks symmetry during centriole duplication and assembly. PLOS Biology. 2023.

2023

 

j260

L. Angela Mihai, A. Gablier, E. Terentjev, A. Goriely. Anti-Hertz bulging of actuated liquid crystal elastomers. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 2023.

 

j258

L. Bellino, G. Florio, A. Goriely, G. Puglisi. Cooperative melting in double-stranded peptide chains through local mechanical interactions. J. R. Soc. Interface. 2023.

 

j257

B. J. Walker, G. L. Celora, A. Goriely, D. E. Moulton, H. M. Byrne. Minimal Morphoelastic Models of Solid Tumour Spheroids: A Tutorial. Bull. Math. Biol. 2023.

 

j254

B. Kaczmarski, D. E. Moulton, A. Goriely, E. Kuhl. Bayesian design optimization of biomimetic soft actuators. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 2023.

2022

 

j245

B. Kaczmarski, D. E. Moulton, E. Kuhl, A. Goriely. Active Filaments I: Curvature and torsion generation, J. Mech. Phys. Solids. 2022.


Books

Applied Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press (February 2018, 120 pages).
Find it on Amazon.
Read it together with the Youtube Playlist.
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A.Goriely. Morphoelasticity: The Mathematics and Mechanics of Biological Growth. Springer-Verlag Interdisciplinary and Applied Mathematics. 2017 (651 Pages). Find it on Amazon.

Goriely, P. Hosoi, H. Dankowicz. Non-linear mechanics of biological structures. Special Issue of the International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics. 2011. 46, 4.

M. Ben Amar, A. Goriely, M. Mueller (Eds.) New Trends in the Physics and Mechanics of Biological Systems: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School. Volume 92. Oxford University Press. 2011
Find it on Amazon.

A. Goriely. Integrability and Nonintegrability of Dynamical Systems. World Scientific. 2001 (436 pages).
Out of print, but you can grab one on Amazon for £375 (a bargain).