Publications

Growth

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.

 

j242

S.-S. Wong, Z. M. Wilmott, S. Saurya, I. Alvarez-Rodrigo, F. Y. Zhou, K.-Y. Chau, A. Goriely, J. W. Raff. Centrioles generate a local pulse of Polo/PLK1 activity to initiate mitotic centrosome assembly. Review Commons (EMBO), 2022.

2021

 

j238

R. Chirat, A. Goriely, D. Moulton. The physical basis of mollusk shells chiral coiling. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2021.

2020

j227

L. S. Kimpton, B. J. Walker, C. L. Hall, B. Bintu, D. Crosby, H. M. Byrne, A. Goriely. A morphoelastic shell model of the eye. Journal of Elasticity. 2020.

j223

Derek Moulton, Hadrien Oliveri, Alain Goriely. Multiscale integration of environmental stimuli in plant tropism produces complex behaviors. PNAS. 2020.

j210

V. Burlakov, Y. Hassan, M. Danaie, H. Snaith, A. Goriely. Competitive Nucleation Mechanism for CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanoplatelets Growth J Chem. Phys. Lett. 2020

j208

Mustafa G. Aydogan, Thomas L. Steinacker, Mohammad Mofatteh, Zachary M. Wilmott, Felix Y. Zhou, Lisa Gartenmann, Alan Wainman, Saroj Saurya, Zsofia A. Novak, Siu S. Wong, Alain Goriely, Michael A. Boemo, Jordan W. Raff. An autonomous oscillation times and executes centriole biogenesis. Cell. 2020

 

j207

Derek Moulton, Thomas Lessinnes, Alain Goriely. Morphoelastic Rods III: Differential Growth and Curvature Generation in Elastic Filaments. J. Mech. Phys. Solids. 2020.


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).