Publications
Publications
Mechanics of molecular networks
White Z.T., Smith A.M. and Vernerey F.J. — Mechanical cooperation between time-dependent and covalent bonds in molecular damage of polymer networks — Communications Physics 8(1), 265, 2025
Karim M.R., Vernerey F.J. and Sain T. — Constitutive Modeling of Vitrimers and Their Nanocomposites Based on Transient Network Theory — Macromolecules 58(10), 4899–4912, 2025
Assadi S., Lamont S., Hansoge N., Liu Z., Crespo V., Salmon F. and Vernerey F.J. — Nonaffine Motion and Network Reorganization in Entangled Polymer Networks — Soft Matter, 2025
Lamont S., Bouklas N. and Vernerey F.J. — Cohesive instability in elastomers: Insights from a crosslinked Van der Waals fluid model — International Journal of Fracture, 2025
Vernerey F.J., Rezaei B. and Lamont S.C. — A kinetic theory for the mechanics and remodeling of transient anisotropic networks — Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 190, 105713, 2024
Lamont S.C. and Vernerey F.J. — Generalized continuum theory for nematic elastomers: Non-affine motion and characteristic behavior — Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 105718, 2024
Song Z., Dong G., Vernerey F.J. and Cai S. — Temperature- and Rate-Dependent Fracture in Disulfide Vitrimers — ACS Macro Letters 13(8), 994–999, 2024
Wagner R.J. and Vernerey F.J. — Coupled bond dynamics alters relaxation in polymers with multiple intrinsic dissociation rates — Soft Matter 19(15), 2716–2725, 2023
Lamont S.C., Weishaar K., Bruns C.J. and Vernerey F.J. — Micromechanics and damage in slide-ring networks — Physical Review E 107(4), 044501, 2023
Xu L., Lamont S.C., Li T. et al. and Vernerey F.J. — Nonlinear Viscoelasticity and Toughening Mechanisms in Nanoclay-PNIPAAm Double Network Hydrogels — ACS Macro Letters 12(5), 549–554, 2023
Vernerey F.J. — Mechanics of transient semi-flexible networks: soft-elasticity, stress relaxation and remodeling — Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 160, 104776, 2022
Wagner R.J., Dai J., Su X. and Vernerey F.J. — A mesoscale model for the micromechanical study of gels — Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 167, 104982, 2022
Shen T., Song Z., Cai S. and Vernerey F.J. — Nonsteady fracture of transient networks: the case of vitrimer — PNAS 118(29), e2105974118, 2021
Song Z., Shen T., Vernerey F.J. and Cai S. — Force-dependent bond dissociation explains the rate-dependent fracture of vitrimers — Soft Matter, 2021
Wagner R.J., Hobbs E. and Vernerey F.J. — A network model of transient polymers: Exploring the micromechanics of nonlinear viscoelasticity — Soft Matter, 2021
Hui C.Y., Cui F., Zehnder A. and Vernerey F.J. — Physically-motivated models of polymer networks with dynamic cross-links: comparative study and future outlook — Proceedings of the Royal Society A 477(2255), 20210608, 2021
Lamont S. and Vernerey F.J. — A Transient Microsphere Model for nonlinear viscoelasticity in dynamic polymer networks — Journal of Applied Mechanics, 2021
Lamont S.C., Mulderrig J., Bouklas N. and Vernerey F.J. — Rate-Dependent Damage Mechanics of Polymer Networks with Reversible Bond — Macromolecules 54(23), 10801–10813, 2021
Vernerey F.J. and Lamont S. — Transient mechanics of slide-ring networks, a continuum model — Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 146, 104212, 2021
Shen T. and Vernerey F.J. — Rate-dependent Fracture of Transient Networks — Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 143, 104028, 2020
Vernerey F.J., Brighenti R., Long R. and Shen T. — Statistical Damage Mechanics of Polymer Networks — Macromolecules 51(17), 6609–6622, 2018
Vernerey F.J. — Transient Response of Nonlinear Polymer Networks: a Kinetic Theory — Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 115, 230–247, 2018
Vernerey F.J., Long R. and Brighenti R. — A Statistically-Based Continuum Theory for Polymers with Transient Networks — Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 107, 1–20, 2017
Brighenti R., Vernerey F.J. and Artoni F. — Rate-dependent failure mechanism of Elastomers — Journal of Mechanical Sciences 130, 448–457, 2017
Collective Matter
Vernerey F.J. and Cox B. — Fire Ant Rafts Offer Principles and Rules for Synthetic Programmable Morphing Matter — Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2026
Bandil P., Geisler A., Leclech C., Barrasa-Ramos S., Barakat A.I. and Vernerey F.J. — A Morphodynamic Network Model to Describe Cell Organization and Nematic Ordering in Monolayers — Proceedings of the Royal Society A 482, 2330, 2026
Bandil P. and Vernerey F.J. — Feedback between proliferation, intercalation, and growth mechanics in multicellular aggregates — Mechanics of Soft Materials 8(1), 2, 2026
White Z.T. and Vernerey F.J. — Dynamic self-organization in fire ant rafts underpins collective longevity and threat responsiveness — Soft Matter, 2025
Wagner R., Lamont S.C., White Z. and Vernerey F.J. — Catch bond kinetics are instrumental to cohesion of fire ant rafts under load — PNAS 121(17), e2314772121, 2024
Abdelrahman M.K., Wagner R.J. et al. and Vernerey F.J. — Material assembly from collective action of shape-changing polymers — Nature Materials 1–9, 2024
Bandil P. and Vernerey F.J. — A morpho-viscoelasticity theory for growth in proliferating aggregates — Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology 1–22, 2024
Bandil P. and Vernerey F.J. — Continuum theory for confluent cell monolayers: Interplay between cell growth, division, and intercalation — Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 181, 105443, 2023
Mwaffo V. and Vernerey F.J. — Analysis of Group of Fish Response to Startle Reaction — Journal of Nonlinear Science 32(6), 96, 2022
Wagner R.J. and Vernerey F.J. — Computational exploration of treadmilling and protrusion growth observed in fire ant rafts — PLoS Computational Biology 18(2), e1009869, 2022
Wagner R., Such K., Hobbs E. and Vernerey F.J. — Treadmilling and dynamic protrusions in fire ant rafts — Journal of the Royal Society Interface 18(179), 20210213, 2021
Vernerey F.J., Benet E., Blue L. et al. — Biological Active Matter Aggregates: Inspiration for Smart Colloidal materials — Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 263, 38–51, 2019
Vernerey F.J., Shen T., Sridhar S.L. and Wagner R. — How do fire ants control the rheology of their aggregations? — Journal of the Royal Society Interface 15, 20180642, 2018
Growth & Remodeling
Vernerey F.J., Sridhar S.L., Muralidharan A. and Bryant S. — Mechanics of 3D cell-hydrogel interactions: Experiments, mechanisms and models — Chemical Reviews, 2021
Ortega J.K.E., Mohan R., Munoz C., Sridhar S.L. and Vernerey F.J. — Phycomyces: Helical growth during the phototropic and avoidance responses, and in stiff mutants — Scientific Reports 11, 3653, 2021
Vernerey F.J. and Bryant S. — The role of percolation in hydrogel-based tissue engineering and bioprinting — Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering 15, 68–74, 2020
Sridhar S. and Vernerey F.J. — Mechanics of transiently crosslinked nematic networks — Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 141, 104021, 2020
Schneider M., Sridhar S.L., Vernerey F.J. and Bryant S. — Spatiotemporal Neocartilage Growth in MMP-Sensitive PEG Hydrogels Under Dynamic Compressive Loading — J. Mater. Chem. B 8, 2775–2791, 2020
Crespo-Cuevas V., Ferguson V.L. and Vernerey F.J. — Poroviscoelasto-plasticity of agarose-based hydrogels — Soft Matter 19(4), 790–806, 2023
Sridhar S.L., Ortega J.K. and Vernerey F.J. — A Statistical Model of Expansive Growth in Plant and Fungal Cells: The Case of Phycomyces — Biophysical Journal 115(12), 2428–2442, 2018
Chu S., Shankar L.S., Akalp U., Skaalure S., Vernerey F.J. and Bryant S.J. — Understanding the Spatiotemporal Degradation Behavior of Aggrecanase-Sensitive PEG Hydrogels for Cartilage Tissue Engineering — Tissue Engineering Part A 23(15–16), 795–810, 2017
Sridhar L.S., Schneider M., Chu S., DeRoucy G., Bryant S. and Vernerey F.J. — Heterogeneity is key to hydrogel-based cartilage tissue regeneration — Soft Matter 13, 4841–4855, 2017
Schneider M., Chu S., Sridhar S. et al. and Vernerey F.J. — Local heterogeneities improve matrix connectivity in degradable and photoclickable PEG hydrogels for tissue engineering — ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering 3(10), 2480–2492, 2017
Akalp U., Bryant S. and Vernerey F.J. — Tuning Tissue Growth with Scaffold Degradation in Enzyme-Sensitive Hydrogels: a Mathematical Model — Soft Matter 12, 7505–7520, 2016
Vernerey F.J. — A Mixture Approach to Investigate Interstitial Growth in Engineering Scaffolds — Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology 15(2), 259–278, 2016
Skaalure S., Akalp U., Vernerey F.J. and Bryant S. — Tuning Reaction and Diffusion Mediated Degradation of Enzyme-Sensitive Hydrogels — Advanced Healthcare Materials 5(4), 432–438, 2016
Dhote V. and Vernerey F.J. — Mathematical model of the role of degradation on matrix development in hydrogel scaffold — Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology 13, 167–183, 2014
Dhote V., Skaalure S., Akalp U., Robert J., Bryant S. and Vernerey F.J. — On the role of hydrogel structure and degradation in controlling the transport of cell-secreted matrix molecules for engineered cartilage — Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 19, 61–74, 2012
Vernerey F.J., Foucard L. and Farsad M. — Bridging the scales to explore cellular adaptation and remodeling — BionanoScience 1(3), 110–115, 2011
Vernerey F.J., Greenwald E. and Bryant S. — Triphasic mixture model of cell-mediated enzymatic degradation of hydrogels — Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 15(11), 1197–1210, 2011
Soft Matter and Continuum Mechanics
Barbier L., Bulteau R., Rezaei B. et al. and Vernerey F.J. — Non-invasive characterization of oocyte deformability in microconstrictions — Science Advances, 2025
Lamont S., Fropier J., Abadie J. et al. and Vernerey F.J. — Profiling oocytes with neural networks from images and mechanical data — Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 138, 105640, 2023
Brighenti R., Li Y. and Vernerey F.J. — Smart polymers for advanced applications: a mechanical perspective review — Frontiers in Materials, 2020
Benet E., Zhu H. and Vernerey F.J. — Interplay of elastic instabilities and viscoelasticity in the finite deformation of thin membranes — Physical Review E 99, 042502, 2019
Shen T., Benet E., Sridhar S.L. et al. and Vernerey F.J. — Separating the contributions of zona pellucida and cytoplasm in the viscoelastic response of human oocytes — Acta Biomaterialia 85, 253–262, 2019
Shen T. and Vernerey F.J. — On the blistering of thermo-sensitive hydrogel: the volume phase transition and mechanical instability — Soft Matter 15, 5842–5853, 2019
Shen T., Long R. and Vernerey F.J. — Computational modeling of the large deformation and flow of viscoelastic polymers — Computational Mechanics, 2018
Vernerey F.J. and Akalp U. — Role of catch bonds in actomyosin mechanics and cell mechanosensitivity — Physical Review E 94, 012403, 2016
Benet E. and Vernerey F.J. — Mechanics and stability of vesicles and droplets in confined spaces — Physical Review E 94(6), 062613, 2016
Foucard L. and Vernerey F.J. — A Particle-based Moving Interface Method (PMIM) for modeling the large deformation of boundaries in soft matter systems — International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 107(11), 923–946, 2016
Vernerey F.J. and Kabiri M. — Adaptive Concurrent Multiscale Model for Fracture and Crack Propagation in Heterogeneous Media — Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 276, 566–588, 2014
Vernerey F.J. and Farsad M. — A mathematical model of the coupled mechanisms of cell adhesion, contraction and spreading — Journal of Mathematical Biology 68(4), 989–1022, 2013
Vernerey F.J. and Chevalier T. — A multiscale micro-continuum model to capture strain localization in composite materials — International Journal of Multiscale Computational Engineering 10(5), 487–501, 2012
Farsad M. and Vernerey F.J. — An XFEM-based numerical strategy to model mechanical interactions between biological cells and a deformable substrate — International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering 92(3), 238–267, 2012
Vernerey F.J. and Farsad M. — A Constrained Mixture Approach to Mechano-Sensing and Force Generation in Contractile Cells — Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 4(8), 1683–1699, 2011
Vernerey F.J. and Farsad M. — An Eulerian/XFEM formulation for the large deformation of cortical cell membrane — Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 14(5), 433–445, 2011
Vernerey F.J., Liu W.K., Moran B. and Olson G.B. — Multi-Length Scale Micromorphic Process Zone Model — Computational Mechanics 44, 433–445, 2009
Vernerey F.J., Liu W.K., Moran B. and Olson G.B. — A Micromorphic Model for the Multiple Scale Failure of Heterogeneous Materials — Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 56(4), 1320–1347, 2008
Vernerey F.J., Liu W.K. and Moran B. — Multi-Scale Micromorphic Theory for Hierarchical Materials — Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 55(12), 2603–2651, 2007