Weibin Zhu

ORCID: 0000-0003-2310-0058
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Research Areas
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Advanced Cellulose Research Studies
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites
  • Infrared Thermography in Medicine
  • Dielectric materials and actuators
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Polymer composites and self-healing
  • Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors
  • Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials
  • Infrared Target Detection Methodologies
  • Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies
  • Thermoregulation and physiological responses
  • thermodynamics and calorimetric analyses
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
  • Bamboo properties and applications

Chongqing University
2003-2024

Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2024

Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (China)
2021-2022

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
2021

University of Central Florida
2016

Evigia Systems (United States)
2013-2016

PicoCal (United States)
2009-2011

Beijing Jiaotong University
2009

Wearable devices that can be used to monitor personal health, track human motions, and provide thermotherapy, etc., are highly desired in personalized healthcare. In this work, a multifunctional wearable "wrist band" which works as both heater for thermotherapy sensor health motion monitoring is fabricated from flexible conductive carbon sponge/polydimethylsiloxane (CS/PDMS) composite. The key functional material of the wrist band, namely, CS, synthesized waste paper by freeze-drying...

10.1021/acsami.6b11196 article EN ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2016-11-16

Melamine sponge, also known as nano-sponge, is widely used an abrasive cleaner in our daily life. In this work, the fabrication of a wearable strain sensor for human motion detection first demonstrated with commercially available nano-sponge starting material. The key resistance sensitive material obtained by encapsulation carbonized (CNS) silicone resin. as-fabricated CNS/silicone highly to maximum gauge factor 18.42. addition, exhibits fast and reliable response various cyclic loading...

10.1039/c7nr01011g article EN Nanoscale 2017-01-01

Abstract In this work, a wire-shaped flexible strain sensor was fabricated by encapsulating conductive carbon thread (CT) with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomer. The key sensitive material, CT, prepared pyrolysing cotton in N 2 atmosphere. CT/PDMS composite wire shows typical piezo-resistive behavior high sensitivity. gauge factors (GF) calculated at low of 0–4% and 8–10% are 8.7 18.5, respectively, which much higher than that the traditional metallic (GF around 2). excellent response to...

10.1038/srep45013 article EN cc-by Scientific Reports 2017-03-21

Herein, a multifunctional polyurethane (PU) composite foam with hierarchical structure is fabricated by dip-coating carbon nanotube/shear-thickening gel (CNT/STG) and spray-coating nano-SiO2/STG on PU foam. The prepared nano-SiO2/CNT/STG@PU (SCS@PU) lightweight, highly compressive, electrically conductive, superhydrophobic, impact-energy absorptive. As result, it possesses an excellent sensing ability to compression stable response up 80% strain, outstanding linearity of R2 > 0.99, wide...

10.1021/acsami.2c01837 article EN ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022-03-08

Using a facile direct ink writing technique, highly stretchable graphene nanoplatelet (GNP)/carbon nanotube (CNT)/silicone elastomer (GCE) fiber-shaped strain sensors are successfully prepared with near-zero temperature coefficient of resistance.

10.1039/d2tc00918h article EN Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2022-01-01

Multiresponsive and high-performance flexible actuators with a simple configuration, high mechanical strength, low-power consumption are highly desirable for soft robotics. Here, novel mechanically robust multiresponsive Ti3C2Tx MXene-based actuator actuation performance via dual-mechanism synergistic effect driven by the hygroexpansion of bacterial cellulose (BC) layer thermal expansion biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) is developed. The shows an ultrahigh tensile strength 195 MPa....

10.1021/acsami.2c03157 article EN ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022-04-29

Ti3C2Tx MXene has drawn remarkable attention in electronic sensors. Existing MXene-based pressure sensors generally have a narrow linear sensing range, which limits their wide application. Moreover, previous studies on were mainly focused increasing sensitivity via various microengineering techniques, but little been paid to environmental stability and biocompatibility of these Herein, highly flexible, biocompatible, environmentally stable MXene/bamboo cellulose fiber...

10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c07994 article EN ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2022-03-08

The performances of flexible piezoresistive sensors based on polymer nanocomposites are significantly affected by the environmental temperature; therefore, comprehensively investigating temperature-dependent electromechanical response behaviors conductive is crucial for developing high-precision in a wide-temperature range. Herein, carbon nanotube (CNT)/polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) composites widely used were prepared, and then electrical, mechanical, properties optimized CNT/PDMS composite...

10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c00231 article EN Langmuir 2024-04-06

The mimicry of human skin to detect both oncoming and physical-contacting object is great importance in the fields manufacturing, artificial robots vehicles, etc. Herein, a novel bioinspired flexible highly responsive dual-mode strain/magnetism composite sensor, which works via contact contactless modes, first fabricated by incorporating Fe3O4/silicone system into carbon fiber aerogel (CFA). distance dependence magnetic field endorses CFA/Fe3O4/silicone possible for spatial sensing due...

10.1021/acsami.8b00250 article EN ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2018-03-15

This work reports a flexible yet robust Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene/bamboo microfibril (BF) composite paper via simple vacuum filtration process.

10.1039/d1ta08017b article EN Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2021-01-01

Development of lightweight structural materials from fast-growing bamboos is great significance to building a sustainable society. However, previously developed by delignification combined with densification would easily fail under large external loading after exposure water due structure collapse, severely limiting their practical applications. Here, we demonstrate an ultrastrong and exceptional environmentally stable bamboo composite consisting graphene oxide (GO)/bamboo core hierarchical...

10.1021/acsami.1c22503 article EN ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022-01-26

Recently, poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-based solid polymer electrolytes have been attracting great attention, and efforts are currently underway to develop PEO-based composite for next generation high performance all-solid-state lithium metal batteries. In this article, a novel sandwich structured solid-state PEO electrolyte is developed The fabricated by hot-pressing PEO, LiTFSI Ti3C2Tx MXene nanosheets into glass fiber cloth (GFC). as-prepared [email protected] shows mechanical properties,...

10.1016/j.nanoms.2023.01.001 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Nano Materials Science 2023-01-14

A new Cu <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">x</sub> Si xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">y</sub> O resistive memory, which is different from Cu-doped SiO xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> or CuxO binary oxide, integrated successfully in standard logic technology for the first time. Key breakthrough that data retention (10 years@ 150°C), resistance distribution (with 50x window@125°C ) and disturbance...

10.1109/vlsit.2010.5556182 article EN Symposium on VLSI Technology 2010-06-01

Bamboo, one of the most abundant biomaterials, has been used as a building material since ancient times; however, its application in functional materials rarely explored. Herein, highly robust and conductive carbonized bamboo aerogel (CBA) is obtained from natural through simple three-step process pulp oxidization, freeze-drying, carbonization. The CBA shows not only low density 0.02 g/cm3 but also high conductivity 6.42 S/m remarkable elasticity with maximum recoverable compressive strain...

10.1021/acsabm.0c01128 article EN ACS Applied Bio Materials 2020-11-11

Substantial effort has been devoted to the synthesis of molecular receptors that can function as chemosensors for nitroaromatic explosives. In spite several advantages, these suffer from low sensitivity and difficulties translating response into gas phase. We have combined tetrathiafulvalene-functionalized calix[4]pyrrole, a colorimetric receptor, with polyimide microcantilever, includes mechanical stress sensing element. The resulting system is capable detecting 10 ppb trinitrobenzene...

10.1063/1.3567011 article EN Applied Physics Letters 2011-03-21
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