Publications

A geometric condition for robot-swarm cohesion and cluster-flock transition

Casiulis M., Arbel E., van Waes C., Oppenheimer N., Lahini Y., Martiniani S., Ben Zion M. Y.

PNAS 122 (37) e2502211122 (2025)

arXiv:2409.04618 (2025)

A mechanical route for cooperative transport in autonomous robotic swarms

Arbel E., Buise L., van Waes C., Oppenheimer N., Lahini Y., Ben Zion M. Y.

Nature Communications (2025)

arXiv:2402.05659 (2025)

Compact expansion of a repulsive suspension

Ben Zion M. Y., Oppenheimer N.

Physical Review Letters, 131, 018301 (2024)

arXiv:2302.14756 (2024)

Hydrodynamic spin-orbit coupling in asynchronous optically driven micro-rotors

Ben Zion, M. Y., Modin A. Chaikin P.

Nature Communications 14, 4114 (2023)

arXiv:2203.11051 (2023)

Morphological computation and decentralized learning in a swarm of sterically interacting robots

Ben Zion M. Y., Fresula J., Bredeche N., Dauchot O.
Science Robotics, 8 (75), 2023

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arXiv:2111.06953 (2022)

Reconfiguration, Interrupted Aging and Enhanced Dynamics of a Colloidal Gel using Photo-Switchable Active Doping

Wei M., Ben Zion M. Y., Dauchot O.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 018301
arXiv:2111.06953 (2023)

Cooperation in a fluid swarm of fuel-free micro-swimmers

Ben Zion M.Y., Caba Y., Modin A., Chaikin P.
Nature Communications 13, 184 (2022)
arXiv:2012.15087

Hyperuniformity and phase enrichment in vortex and rotor assemblies.

Oppenheimer N., Stein D.B., Ben Zion M.Y., Shelly, M.
Nature Communications 13, 804 (2022)

arXiv:2103.00296

Microchemomechanical devices using DNA hybridization

Zhu G., Hannel M., Sha R., Zhou F., Ben Zion M. Y., Zhang Y., Bishop K., Grier D., Seeman N. and Chaikin P. 

PNAS May 25, 2021 118 (21)

Mix and Match — a versatile equilibrium approach for hybrid colloidal synthesis

Ben Zion M. Y., Caba Y., Sha R., Seeman N., Chaikin P.

Soft Matter, 2020,16, 4358-4365

Surfing its own wave: hydroelasticity of a particle near a membrane

Rallabandi B., Oppenheimer N., Ben Zion M. Y., Stone E.
Nature Physics, September 2018
arxiv: 1802.07872, 2018

Self-assembled three-dimensional chiral colloidal architecture

Ben Zion M. Y., He X., Maass C., Sha R., Seeman N., Chaikin P.
Science, 2017, 6363, 358, pp 633-636
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Plasmon-induced conductance enhancement in single-molecule junctions

Vadai M., Nachman N., Ben Zion M. Y., Bürkle M., Pauly F., Cuevas J. C., Selzer Y.
J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2013, 4 (17), pp 2811–2816