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2024

Graybill M.T., Xu N.W. 2024. Experimental studies of bioinspired shark denticles for drag reduction, in revision.

Xu N.W., Lenczewska O., Wieten, S.E., Federico, C.A., Dabiri J.O. 2024. Ethics of biohybrid robotic jellyfish modification and invertebrate research, in revision. [Preprint] [PDF]

Xu N.W., Dabiri J.O. 2024. ``The creation of an augmented jellyfish: Ethical considerations from a scientific perspective," Transanimalisme: L'animal augmenté, entre exploitations et protections, Eds. Amandine Cayol, Émilie Gaillard, Bénédicte Bévière-Boyer. Mare et Martin, ISBN: 978-2-38600-002-7. [PDF]

2023

Webster-Wood V.A., Guix M., Xu N.W., Behkam B., Sato H., Sarkar D., Sanchez S., Shimizu M., Parker K.K. 2023. Biohybrid robots: Recent progress, challenges, and perspectives. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 18(1): 015001. [PDF]

2022

Xu N.W., Dabiri J.O. 2022. Bio-inspired Ocean Exploration. Oceanography, 35(2):3548, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2022.214.[Cover] [PDF]

Sampath K.*, Xu N.W.*, Geder J.D., Pruessner M., Ramamurti R. 2022. Flapping soft fin deformation modeling using planar laser-induced fluorescence imaging. Journal of Visualized Experiments, (182), e63784, doi:10.3791/63784. [PDF]

*These authors contributed equally to this paper.

2021

Xu N.W., Townsend J.P., Costello J.H., Colin S.P., Gemmell B.J., Dabiri J.O. 2021. Developing biohybrid robotic jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) for free-swimming tests in the laboratory and in the field. Bio-protocol, 11(7): e3974. [PDF]

Hoover A.P., Xu N.W., Gemmell B.J., Colin S.P., Costello J.H., Dabiri J.O., Miller L.A. 2021. Neuromechanical wave resonance in jellyfish bell swimming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., 118(11): e2020025118. [PDF]

Xu N.W. 2021. Squid-inspired robots perform swimmingly. Science Robotics, 6, eabf4301. [PDF]

2020

Xu N.W., Townsend J.P., Costello J.H., Colin S.P., Gemmell B.J., Dabiri J.O. 2020. Field testing of biohybrid robotic jellyfish to demonstrate enhanced swimming speeds. Biomimetics, 5(4), 64. [PDF]

Xu N.W., Dabiri J.O. 2020. Low-power microelectronics embedded in live jellyfish enhance propulsion. Science Advances, 6(5), eaaz3194. [Cover] [PDF]

2012

Bahl V.*, Lin S.*, Xu N.*, Davis B., Wang Y., Talbot P. 2012. Comparison of electronic cigarette refill fluid cytotoxicity using embryonic and adult models. Reproductive Toxicology, 34(4):529-537. [PDF]

*These authors contributed equally to this paper.

Behar R., Bahl V., Wang Y., Lin S., Xu N., Davis B., Talbot P. 2012.  A method for rapid dose-response screening of environmental chemicals using human embryonic stem cells. Journal of Pharmacological and Toxicological Methods, 66(3):238-245. [PDF]

2009

Xu N.W., Xu S., Ehlers J. 2009. Estimating the broad-sense heritability of early growth of cowpea. International Journal of Plant Genomics, ID 984521. [PDF]