Papers
9
Total Citations
149
H-Index
7
About
Noy Cohen is a rising leader in the mechanics of smart and responsive materials, with a research focus that bridges soft matter physics, structural design, and additive manufacturing. Her work centers on understanding and harnessing the thermo-mechanical and electro-mechanical behavior of polymers, hydrogels, and dielectric elastomers to create programmable, shape-morphing structures. Cohen’s major contributions include establishing design principles for 3D-printed thermally activated shape-morphing structures (26 citations) and developing a statistical mechanics-based framework to predict how hydrogel stiffness depends on water content (7 citations). She has also pioneered the study of “incompatible” tubes, showing how inflation can induce twist in isotropic materials—a counterintuitive coupling with implications for soft robotics and biomedical devices (23 citations). Her work on electrically-induced twist in dielectric elastomer tubes (19 citations) and thermally tunable auxetic lattices (6 citations) further demonstrates her ability to engineer complex, multi-functional responses. With a growing portfolio of highly cited papers from 2020–2025, Cohen is establishing herself as a key figure in the next generation of mechanics researchers, offering both fundamental insights and practical design guides for adaptive materials.
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- 2Thermo-Mechanics of PNIPAM Gels: from a Single Chain to a Network Response25 citations · 2025
- 3Thermally induced deformations in multi-layered polymeric struts24 citations · 2021
- 4Inflation-Induced Twist in Geometrically Incompatible Isotropic Tubes23 citations · 2020
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- 6Inversion and perversion in twist incompatible isotropic tubes14 citations · 2021
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- 8Thermally activated tunable auxeticity in periodic lattice structures6 citations · 2025
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