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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

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Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Behavior of the van der Waals force between a plate and a single-walled carbon nanotube under uniform hydrostatic pressure: a theoretical study Valchev, G., Djondjorov, P., Vassilev, V., Dantchev, D. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 32(40):405001, IOP Publishing, Bristol, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots Article Bioinspired cilia arrays with programmable nonreciprocal motion and metachronal coordination Dong, X., Lum, G. Z., Hu, W., Zhang, R., Ren, Z., Onck, P. R., Sitti, M. Science Advances, 6(45):eabc9323, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Bioinspired underwater locomotion of light-driven liquid crystal gels Shahsavan, H., Aghakhani, A., Zeng, H., Guo, Y., Davidson, Z. S., Priimagi, A., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(10):5125-5133, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Biosynthetic self-healing materials for soft machines Pena-Francesch, A., Jung, H., Demirel, M. C., Sitti, M. Nature Materials, 19(11):1230-1235, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Blessing and Curse: How a Supercapacitor Large Capacitance Causes its Slow Charging Lian, C., Janssen, M., Liu, H., van Roij, R. Physical Review Letters, 124(7):076001, American Physical Society, Woodbury, N.Y., 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Bound and stable vortex-antivortex pairs in high-Tc superconductors Simmendinger, J., Bihler, M., Ionescu, A. M., Weigand, M., Schütz, G., Albrecht, J. New Journal of Physics, 22(12):123035, IOP Publishing, Bristol, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Bridging transitions and capillary forces for colloids in a slit Vasilyev, O. A., Labbe-Laurent, M., Dietrich, S., Kondrat, S. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 153(1):014901, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, N.Y., 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Building blocks for magnon optics: Emission and conversion of short spin waves Groß, F., Zelent, M., Träger, N., Förster, J., Sanli, U. T., Sauter, R., Decker, M., Back, C. H., Weigand, M., Keskinbora, K., et al. ACS Nano, 14(12):17184-17193, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Bulk ionic screening lengths from extremely large-scale molecular dynamics simulations Zeman, J., Kondrat, S., Holm, C. Chemical Communications, 56(100):15635-15638, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Carbon nitride-based light-driven microswimmers with intrinsic photocharging ability Sridhar, V., Podjaski, F., Kröger, J., Jiménez-Solano, A., Park, B., Lotsch, B. V., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(40):24748-24756, 2020 () DOI URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Cassie-Wenzel transition of a binary liquid mixture on a nanosculptured surface Singh, S. L., Schimmele, L., Dietrich, S. Physical Review E, 101(5):052115, American Physical Society, Melville, NY, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Causal Discovery from Heterogeneous/Nonstationary Data Huang, B., Zhang, K., Zhang, J., Ramsey, J., Sanchez-Romero, R., Glymour, C., Schölkopf, B. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 21(1):1-53, 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Charge symmetry broken complex coacervation Majee, A., Bier, M., Blossey, R., Podgornik, R. Physical Review Research, 2(4):043417, American Physical Society (APS), College Park, Maryland, United States, 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Chemically Active Particles: From One to Few on the Way to Many Popescu, M. N. Langmuir, 36(25):6861-6870, American Chemical Society, Columbus, OH, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Clinical Predictive Models for COVID-19: Systematic Study Schwab, P., DuMont Schütte, A., Dietz, B., Bauer, S. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(10), 2020 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Cohesive self-organization of mobile microrobotic swarms Yigit, B., Alapan, Y., Sitti, M. Soft Matter, 16(8):1996-2004, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Materials Article Communication - Highly Sensitive Glassy Carbon Electrode Altered by Nanoporous Gold for the Electrochemical Detection of Nitrite Zhang, A., Yang, Z., Chen, Y., Schützendübe, P., Huang, Y., Liu, Y., Wang, Z. Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 167(8):086504, Electrochemical Society, New York, NY, USA, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Book Computer Vision for Autonomous Vehicles: Problems, Datasets and State-of-the-Art Janai, J., Güney, F., Behl, A., Geiger, A. 12(1-3), Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics and Vision, now Publishers Inc., Hanover, MA, 2020 (Published) pdf Project Page link DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Conjugate Gradients for Kernel Machines Bartels, S., Hennig, P. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 21(55):1-42, 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Controlling two-dimensional collective formation and cooperative behavior of magnetic microrobot swarms Dong, X., Sitti, M. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 39(5):617-638, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Article Convergence rates of Gaussian ODE filters Kersting, H., Sullivan, T. J., Hennig, P. Statistics and Computing, 30(6):1791-1816, 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Creating zero-field skyrmions in exchange-biased multilayers through X-ray illumination Guang, Y., Bykova, I., Liu, Y., Yu, G., Goering, E., Weigand, M., Gräfe, J., Kim, S. K., Zhang, J., Zhang, H., et al. Nature Communications, 11:949, Nature Publishing Group, London, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Critical Casimir interaction between colloidal Janus-type particles in two spatial dimensions Squarcini, A., Maciolek, A., Eisenriegler, E., Dietrich, S. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2020(4):043208, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, England, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Critical energy-density profile near walls Borjan, Z., Vasilyev, O. A., Upton, P. J., Dietrich, S. Physical Review E, 102(2):022805, American Physical Society, Melville, NY, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Materials Article Crystallography of γ’-Fe4N formation in single-crystalline α-Fe whiskers Schumann, H., Richter, G., Leineweber, A. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 53(4):865-879, Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the International Union of Crystallography, Oxford, England, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Current-induced dynamical tilting of chiral domain walls in curved microwires Finizio, S., Wintz, S., Mayr, S., Huxtable, A. J., Langer, M., Bailey, J., Burnell, G., Marrows, C. H., Raabe, J. Applied Physics Letters, 116(18), American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Decentralized Data-Driven Tuning of Droop Frequency Controllers Almeida Santos, A., Gil, C., Peters, J., Steinke, F. IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT-Europe), :141-145, IEEE, 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Deep Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Object Disentangling Laux, M., Arenz, O., Peters, J., Pajarinen, J. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), :5504-5510, IEEE, 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Conference Paper Deep Visual Heuristics: Learning Feasibility of Mixed-Integer Programs for Manipulation Planning Driess, D., Oguz, O. S., Ha, J., Toussaint, M. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020) , :9563-9569, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020), 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Conference Paper Deep Visual Reasoning: Learning to Predict Action Sequences for Task and Motion Planning from an Initial Scene Image Driess, D., Ha, J., Toussaint, M. In Robotics: Science and System XVI, RSS Foundation, Corvalis, OR, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Demonstration of k-vector selective microscopy for nanoscale mapping of higher order spin wave modes Träger, N., Gruszecki, P., Lisiecki, F., Groß, F., Förster, J., Weigand, M., Glowinski, H., Kuswik, P., Dubowik, J., Krawczyk, M., et al. Nanoscale, 12(33):17238-17244, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Article Describing Physics For Physical Reasoning: Force-Based Sequential Manipulation Planning Toussaint, M., Ha, J., Driess, D. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(4):6209-6216, IEEE, New York, NY, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Design and Development of a Lorentz Force-Based MRI-Driven Neuroendoscope Phelan III, M. F., Dogan, N. O., Lazovic, J., Sitti, M. In 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), :9534-9541, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Differentiable Volumetric Rendering: Learning Implicit 3D Representations without 3D Supervision Niemeyer, M., Mescheder, L., Oechsle, M., Geiger, A. In 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020), :3501 - 3512, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020), 2020 (Published) pdf suppmat Video 2 Project Page Video 1 Video 3 Slides Poster DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Direct imaging of high-frequency multimode spin wave propagation in cobalt-iron waveguides using X-ray microscopy beyond 10 GHz Träger, N., Gruszecki, P., Lisiecki, F., Förster, J., Weigand, M., Wintz, S., Stoll, H., Glowinski, H., Kuswik, P., Krawczyk, M., et al. Physica Status Solidi RRL - Rapid Research Letters, 14(12), WILEY-VCH, Weinheim, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Direct observation of spin-wave focusing by a Fresnel lens Gräfe, J., Gruszecki, P., Zelent, M., Decker, M., Keskinbora, K., Noske, M., Gawronski, P., Stoll, H., Weigand, M., Krawczyk, M., et al. Physical Review B, 102(2):024420, American Physical Society, Woodbury, NY, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Divide-and-Conquer Monte Carlo Tree Search for goal directed planning Parascandolo*, G., Buesing*, L., Merel, J., Hasenclever, L., Aslanides, J., Hamrick, J. B., Heess, N., Neitz, A., Weber, T. 2020, *equal contribution, Submitted (Submitted) arXiv BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper EXPLORING BY EXPLOITING BAD MODELS IN MODEL-BASED REINFORCEMENT LEARNING Lin, Y., Bechtle, S., Righetti, L., Rai, A., Meier, F. International Conference on Learning Representations, 2020 (Published) BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Effect of proton fluence on the superconducting properties of MgB2. irradiated with protons of high energy Sandu, V., Ionescu, A. M., Ivan, I., Craciun, L., Aldica, G. Physica C, 578, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Effect of the soft layer thickness on magnetization reversal process of exchange-spring nanomagnet patterns Son, K., Schütz, G., Goering, E. Current Applied Physics, 20(4):477-483, Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Effective pair interaction of patchy particles in critical fluids Farahmand Bafi, N., Nowakowski, P., Dietrich, S. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 152(11):114902, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, N.Y., 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Electrostatic pair-interaction of nearby metal or metal-coated colloids at fluid interfaces Bebon, R., Majee, A. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 153(4):044903, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, N.Y., 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Element-resolved study on the evolution of magnetic response in FexN compounds Chen, Y., Gölden, D., Dirba, I., Huang, M., Gutfleisch, O., Nagel, P., Merz, M., Schuppler, S., Schütz, G., Alff, L., et al. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 498:166219, NH, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Medical Systems Article Elucidating the interaction dynamics between microswimmer body and immune system for medical microrobots Yasa, I. C., Ceylan, H., Bozuyuk, U., Wild, A., Sitti, M. Science Robotics, 5(43):eaaz3867, 2020 () DOI URL BibTeX