- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Advanced Materials and Mechanics
- Silk-based biomaterials and applications
- Conducting polymers and applications
- Micro and Nano Robotics
- Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
- Photonic Crystals and Applications
- 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
- Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- GNSS positioning and interference
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Bone Tissue Engineering Materials
- Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
- Seismic Waves and Analysis
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Structural Analysis and Optimization
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
- Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications
- Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications
- Dielectric materials and actuators
- Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
Taiyuan University of Technology
2021-2025
Northwest Normal University
2022-2024
Soochow University
2022-2024
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023-2024
Changchun University
2009-2024
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2019-2024
Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry
2020-2024
Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics
2024
University of Science and Technology of China
2024
Ningbo University
2024
Considering the fast development of wearable electronics and soft robotics, pressure sensors with high sensitivity, durability, washability are great importance. However, surface modification fabrics high-sensitivity active materials requires that issues associated poor interface adhesion stability resolved. In this study, we explored key factors for firmly bonding MXene to fabric substrates fabricate washable sensing fabric. The interactions between various were elucidated by investigating...
Microcatheters have enabled diverse minimally invasive endovascular operations and notable health benefits compared with open surgeries. However, tortuous routes far from the arterial puncture site, distal vascular regions remain challenging for safe catheter access. Therefore, we propose a wireless stent-shaped magnetic soft robot to be deployed, actively navigated, used medical functions, retrieved in example M4 segment of middle cerebral artery. We investigate shape-adaptively controlled...
Human awareness plays an important role in the spread of infectious diseases and control propagation patterns. The dynamic process with human is called cascade, during which individuals exhibit herd-like behavior because they are making decisions based on actions other [Borge-Holthoefer et al., J. Complex Networks 1, 3 (2013)]. In this paper, to investigate epidemic spreading we propose a local controlled contagion model multiplex networks. By theoretical analysis using microscopic Markov...
Abstract Rapid growth of electronic textile increases the demand for textile‐based power sources, which should have comparable lightweight, flexibility, and comfort. In this work, a self‐charging interwoven by all‐yarn‐based energy‐harvesting triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) energy‐storing yarn‐type asymmetric supercapacitors (Y‐ASC) is reported. Common polyester yarns with conformal Ni/Cu coating are utilized as 1D current collectors in Y‐ASCs electrodes TENGs. The solid‐state Y‐ASC...
Protein micro/nanopatterning has long provided sophisticated strategies for a wide range of applications including biointerfaces, tissue engineering, optics/photonics, and bioelectronics. We present here the use regenerated silk fibroin to explore wrinkle formation by exploiting structure-function relation silk. This yields biopolymer-based reversible, multiresponsive, dynamic wrinkling system based on protein's responsiveness external stimuli that allows on-demand tuning surface...
Structural proteins from naturally occurring materials are an inspiring template for material design and synthesis at multiple scales. The ability to control the assembly conformation of such offers opportunity define fabrication approaches that recapitulate dimensional hierarchy structure–function relationships found in nature. A simple versatile directed method silk fibroin, which allows structures across scales by generating tuning structural color large‐scale, macro defect‐free...
Abstract Patterning of photonic crystals to generate rationally designed color‐responsive materials has drawn considerable interest because promising applications in optical storage, encryption, display, and sensing. Here, an inkjet‐printing based strategy is presented for noncontact, rapid, direct approaches arbitrarily patterned crystals. The on the use water‐soluble biopolymer‐based opal structures that can be reformed with high resolution through precise deposition fluids crystal...
Bioinspired actuators with stimuli-responsive and deformable properties are being pursued in fields such as artificial tissues, medical devices diagnostics, intelligent biosensors. These applications require that actuator systems have biocompatibility, controlled deformability, biodegradability, mechanical durability, stable reversibility. Herein, we report a bionic system consisting of genetically engineered silk-elastin-like protein (SELP) hydrogels wood-derived cellulose nanofibers...
Abstract Natural systems display sophisticated control of light-matter interactions at multiple length scales for light harvesting, manipulation, and management, through elaborate photonic architectures responsive material formats. Here, we combine programmable function with elastomeric composites to generate optomechanical actuators that controllable tunable actuation as well complex deformation in response simple illumination. The ability topographically bandgaps allows the substrate...
Magnetically driven wireless miniature devices have become promising recently in healthcare, information technology, and many other fields. However, they lack advanced fabrication methods to go down micrometer length scales with heterogeneous functional materials, complex three-dimensional (3D) geometries, 3D programmable magnetization profiles. To fill this gap, we propose a molding-integrated direct laser writing-based microfabrication approach study showcase its enabling capabilities...
In this study, inspired by the components of cartilage matrix, a photo-cross-linked extracellular matrix (ECM) bioink composed modified proteins and polysaccharides was presented, including gelatin methacrylate, hyaluronic acid chondroitin sulfate methacrylate. The systematic experiments were performed, morphology, swelling, degradation, mechanical rheological tests, printability analysis, biocompatibility chondrogenic differentiation characterization, RNA sequencing (RNA-seq). results...
Biological cilia play essential roles in self-propulsion, food capture, and cell transportation by performing coordinated metachronal motions. Experimental studies to emulate the biological coordination are challenging at micrometer length scale because of current limitations fabrication methods materials. We report on creation wirelessly actuated magnetic artificial with biocompatibility programmability scale. Each cilium is fabricated direct laser printing a silk fibroin hydrogel beam...
Conductive hydrogels integrate the conductive performance and soft nature, which is like that of human skin. Thus, they are more suitable for preparation wearable human-motion sensors. Nevertheless, integration outstanding multiple functionalities, such as stretchability, toughness, biocompatibility, self-healing, adhesion, strain sensitivity, durability, by a simple way still huge challenge. Herein, we have developed multifunctional chitosan/oxidized hyaluronic acid/hydroxypropyl...
Significance This approach offers a platform for controlled, light-induced motion with easily accessible equipment and facile manufacturing processes. Utility can be envisioned flexible, simple, cost-effective actuators from the micro- to macroscale. Additional opportunity is offered by ability of these composites perform heliotactic motion, enabling formats that respond track light sources such as sun.
Abstract Wearable interfaces are central to multiple healthcare and wellness strategies encompassing diet nutrition, personalized health monitoring, performance optimization. Specifically, the advent of flexible electronic formats coupled with microfluidic has resulted in sophisticated conformal devices for biofluid sampling quantification. Here, a complementary approach is presented wearable sensing by using large‐scale, conformal, distributed format that relies on use biomaterial‐based...
Magnetically hard materials are widely used to build soft magnetic robots, providing large force/torque and macrodomain programmability. However, their high coercivity often presents practical challenges when attempting reconfigure magnetization patterns, requiring a field or heating. In this study, putty is introduced as magnetically material with remanence low coercivity. It shown that the of can be easily reoriented maximum magnitude using an external only one-tenth its Additionally,...
Artificial cilia integrating both actuation and sensing functions allow simultaneously environmental properties manipulating fluids in situ, which are promising for environment monitoring fluidic applications. However, existing artificial have limited ability to sense cues fluid flows that versatile information encoded. This limits their potential work complex dynamic fluid-filled environments. Here, we propose a generic actuation-enhanced mechanism through the active interaction between...
Abstract Efficient delivery systems based on biopolymers offer new solutions to enhance food security by boosting crop yield and quality while decreasing agrochemical input mitigating environmental impact. Herein, a novel Pickering emulsion fabrication method that utilizes antibody‐functionalized silk fibroin foliar adhesion upon application for efficient agrochemicals is reported. Silk microparticles (SFMPs) stabilize both nonpolar polar oil‐in‐water emulsions, revealing the cooperative...
A surface-energy generator (SEG) using single-walled carbon nanotubes is demonstrated to harvest the surface energy of ethanol. The SEG can drive thermistors in a self-powered system. performance be significantly enhanced by Marangoni effect. These SEGs show advantages smaller inner resistance, no moving parts, and need for application an obvious external force.