Publications

29. Modeling Leidenfrost Levitation in Soft Solids
Jack Binysh, Indrajit Chakraborty, Mykyta V. Chubynsky, Vicente Luis Díaz Melian, Scott R. Waitukaitis, James E. Sprittles and Anton Souslov
Physical Review Letters 131, 168201 (2023)

28. Asymmetries in triboelectric charging: Generalizing mosaic models to different-materials samples and sliding contacts
Galien Grosjean and Scott Waitukaitis
Physical Review Materials 7, 065601 (2023)

27. Accurate determination of the shapes of granular charge distributions
Nicolas Mujica and Scott Waitukaitis
Physical Review E 107, 034901 (2023)

26. Single-collision statistics reveal a global mechanism driven by sample history for contact electrification in granular media
Galien Grosjean and Scott Waitukaitis
Physical Review Letters 130, 098202 (2023)
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25. Quantifying nanoscale charge density features of contact-charged surfaces with an FEM/KPFM-hybrid approach
Felix Pertl, Juan Carlos Sobarzo, Lubuna Shafeek, Tobias Cramer, and Scott Waitukaitis
Physical Review Materials 6, 125605 (2022)

24. Non-Euclidean Origami
Scott Waitukaitis, Peter Dieleman, and Martin van Hecke
Physical Review E 102, 031001 (2020)

23. Quantitatively consistent scale-spanning model for same-material tribocharging
Galien Grosjean, Sebastian Wald, Juan Carlos Sobarzo, and Scott Waitukaitis
Physical Review Materials 4, 082602 (2020).

*22. Jigsaw puzzle design of pluripotent origami
Peter Dieleman, Niek Vasmel, Scott Waitukaitis, and Martin van Hecke
Nature Physics 16, 63-68 (2020).

21.  Microwave induced mechanical activation of hydrogel dimers
Hamza Khattak, Scott Waitukaitis, and Aaron Slepkov
Soft Matter 15, 5804-5809 (2019). 

20. From Bouncing to Floating:  The Leidenfrost Effect with Hydrogel Spheres 
Scott Waitukaitis and Martin van Hecke
Physical Review Letters 121, 048001 (2018).

19.  Clicks for Doughnuts 
Scott Waitukaitis
Nature Physics 14, 777-778 (2018).

18.  Collisional charging of individual sub-millimeter particles:  usingultrasonic levitation to initiate and track charge transfer
Victor Lee, Nicole M. James, Scott Waitukaitis, and Heinrich Jaeger
Physical Review Materials 2, 035602 (2018).

17.  A high-speed tracking algorithm for dense granular media
Cristobal Navarro, Juan Silva, Scott Waitukaitis, Nicolas Mújica, Nancy Hitschfeld-Kahler, Maurico Cerda
Computer Physics Communications 227, 8-16 (2018).

16.  The retention of dust in protoplanetary disks: evidence from agglomeratic olivine chondrules from the outer Solar System
Devin Schrader, Kazuhide Nagashima, Scott Waitukaitis, Jemma Davidson, Timothy McCoy, Harold Connoly and Dante Lauretta
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 223, 405-421 (2018).

*15.  Coupling the Leidenfrost effect and elastic deformations to power sustained bouncing
Scott Waitukaitis, Antal Zuiderwijk, Anton Souslov, Corentin Coulais and Martin van Hecke
Nature Physics 13, 1095-1099 (2017).

14.  Origami building blocks: generic and special four vertices
Scott Waitukaitis and Martin van Hecke
Physical Review E 93, 023003 (2016).

13.  *Direct observation of particle interactions and clustering in charged granular streams
Victor Lee, Scott Waitukaitis, Marc Miskin and Heinrich Jaeger
 Nature Physics 11, 733-737 (2015).

*12.  Origami multistability:  from single vertices to metasheets
Scott Waitukaitis, Rémi Menaut, Bryan Chen and Martin van Hecke
Physical Review Letters 114, 055503 (2015).

*11.  Size-dependent, same-material tribocharging in insulating grains     Scott Waitukaitis, Victor Lee, James Pierson, Steve Forman and Heinrich Jaeger
Physical Review Letters 112, 218001 (2014).

10. Settling into dry granular media in different gravities 
Ernesto Altshuler, Harol Torres, Gustavo Sánchez-Colina, Carlos Pérez-Penichet, Scott Waitukaitis and Raul Hidalgo
Geophysical Review Letters 41, 3032-3037 (2014).

9.   From nanoscale cohesion to macroscale entanglement: opportunities for designing granular behavior by tailoring grain shape and interactions
Heinrich Jaeger, Marc Miskin, and Scott Waitukaitis
Powders and Grains 1542, 3-6 (2013).

8.   Dynamic Jamming Fronts
Scott Waitukaitis, Leah Roth, Vincenzo Vitelli, and Heinrich Jaeger
Europhysics Letters 102, 44001 (2013).

7.   In situ granular charge measurement by free-fall videography   
Scott Waitukaitis and Heinrich Jaeger 
Review of Scientific Instruments 84, 025104 (2013).

6.   Solidificación de una suspensión de maicena y agua 
Scott Waitukaitis and Heinrich Jaeger
Revista Cubana de Física 29, (2012).

*5.   Impact-activated solidification of dense suspensions via dynamic jamming fronts     
Scott Waitukaitis and Heinrich Jaeger
 Nature 487, 205-209 (2012).

4.   Droplet and cluster formation in freely-falling granular streams
Scott Waitukaitis, Helge Grütjen, John Royer and Heinrich Jaeger
Physical Review E 83, 051302 (2011).

*3.   High-speed tracking of rupture and clustering in freely-falling granular streams
John Royer, D.J. Evans, Loreto Oyarte, Qiti Guo, Matthias Möbius, Scott Waitukaitis and Heinrich Jaeger
Nature 459, 1110-1113 (2009).

2.   Reconnection in three dimensions: the role of spines in three eruptive flares     
Angela des Jardins, Richard Canfield, Dana Longcope, C. Fordyce and Scott Waitukaitis
Astrophysical Journal 693, 1628-1636 (2009).

1.   Cover slip external cavity diode laser     
Victoria Carr, Yancey Sechrest, Scott Waitukaitis, John Perrault, Vincent Lonij and Alex Cronin
Review of Scientific Instruments 78, 106108 (2007).