- Advanced Materials and Mechanics
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- ZnO doping and properties
- Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
- Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
- 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
- Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Micro and Nano Robotics
- Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
- Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties
- Bone Tissue Engineering Materials
- Rock Mechanics and Modeling
- Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties
- Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties
- Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
- Muscle activation and electromyography studies
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications
- Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus
- Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
- Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
- Microwave Engineering and Waveguides
- MXene and MAX Phase Materials
- Superconducting and THz Device Technology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2011-2025
Anhui University
2025
Harbin Institute of Technology
2022-2025
University of Houston
2023-2025
Zhejiang University of Technology
2019-2024
Beihang University
2018-2024
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
2022-2024
Zhengzhou University
2024
Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University
2020-2024
Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University
2017-2024
Bioengineering approaches that combine living cellular components with three-dimensional scaffolds to generate motion can be used develop a new generation of miniature robots. Integrating on-board electronics and remote control in these biological machines will enable various applications across engineering, biology, medicine. Here, we present hybrid bioelectronic robots equipped battery-free microinorganic light-emitting diodes for wireless real-time communication. Centimeter-scale walking...
Pumps are critical life-sustaining components for all animals. At the earliest stages of life, tubular embryonic heart works as a valveless pump capable generating unidirectional blood flow. Inspired by this elementary pump, we developed an example biohybrid pump-bot powered engineered skeletal muscle. Our consists soft hydrogel tube connected at both ends to stiffer polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) scaffold, creating impedance mismatch. A contractile muscle ring wraps around off-center location,...
Microfluidic technologies have wide-ranging applications in chemical analysis systems, drug delivery platforms, and artificial vascular networks. This latter area is particularly relevant to 3D cell cultures, engineered tissues, organs, where volumetric capabilities fluid distribution are essential. Existing schemes for fabricating microfluidic structures constrained realizing desired layout designs, producing physiologically microvascular structures, and/or integrating active...
Abstract Low modulus materials that can shape-morph into different three-dimensional (3D) configurations in response to external stimuli have wide-ranging applications flexible/stretchable electronics, surgical instruments, soft machines and robotics. This paper reports a shape-programmable system exploits liquid metal microfluidic networks embedded an elastomer matrix, with electromagnetic forms of actuation, achieve unique set properties. Specifically, this structure is capable fast,...
In the field of regenerative medicine, importance 3D bioprinting is self-evident and nonnegligible. However, technology also requires bioink with excellent performance as support material to fabricate a multi-functional bioinspired scaffold. Collagen-based regarded an ideal ink for its biocompatibility, controllable printability cell loading property. It important breakthrough in medicine progress collagen-based bioink, which fabricates scaffolds different functions applied repair scenarios....
Printing or patterning particle-based liquid metal (LM) ink is a good strategy to overcome poor wettability of LM for its circuits' preparation in flexible and printed electronics. Subsequently, crucial step recover conductivity circuits consisting insulating micro/nano-particles. However, most widely used mechanical sintering methods based on hard contact such as pressing, may not be able the patterns' whole surface conformally, leading insufficient some areas. Hard also break delicate...
Characterizing the tumor microenvironment at molecular level is essential for understanding mechanisms of tumorigenesis and evolution. However, specificity blood proteome in localized region its linkages with other systems difficult to investigate. Here, we propose a spatially multidimensional comparative proteomics strategy using glioma as an example. The signature was specifically identified by situ collection arterial venous from brain comparison peripheral blood. Also, integrating...
Abstract The scaffold that bioinspired natural bone‐periosteum is ideal for the repair of bone defects, while achievement a gradient with an integrated and stable interface remains challenging. Herein, collagen‐based developed, in which top layer electrospun collagen‐dense as periosteum (BP) to prevent invasion reticular fiber tissue bottom situ mineralized collagen (IMCS) promote osteogenic differentiation. Owing proposed continuous manufacturing successive 3D printing electrospinning,...
Optical devices with tunable specular optical transmittance have recently attracted great interest due to their wide range of applications. However, the reported methods realizing suffer from complex fabrication processes, high cost, unstable materials, or low tuning range. In this study, a simple, cheap, and highly effective approach achieve large through harnessing surface wrinkling–cracking patterns on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) films is reported. The are induced by stretching...
Stretchable thin film materials have promising applications in many areas, including stretchable electronics, precision metrology, optical gratings, surface engineering, packaging, energy harvesting, and storage. They are usually realized by engineering geometric patterns nonlinear mechanics of stiff films on compliant substrates, such as buckling soft prefabricated wavy forms films, mesh layouts that combine structured islands bridges. This paper reviews fabrication, application, materials....
Octopus, clingfish, and larva use soft cups to attach surfaces under water. Recently, various bioinspired have been engineered. However, the mechanisms of their attachment detachment remain elusive. Using a novel microcup, fabricated by two-photon lithography, coupled with in situ pressure sensor observation cameras, we reveal detailed nature its attachment/detachment It involves elasticity-enhanced hydrodynamics generating “self-sealing” high suction at cup-substrate interface, converting...
Compound eye-inspired imaging devices can find vast applications due to their remarkable characteristics, such as extremely large field of view angle, low aberrations, high acuity motion, and infinite depth field. Recently, researchers have successfully developed a digital camera that resembles the structure functions apposition compound eyes arthropod, by combining an elastic array microlenses with stretchable photodetectors in planar form then transforming into hemispherical shape....
Abstract For guided bone regeneration (GBR) in clinical orthopedics, the importance of a suitable scaffold which can provide space needed for and simultaneously promotes new formation cannot be overemphasized. Due to its excellent biocompatibility, mechanical strength, similarity structure composition natural bone, mineralized collagen-based scaffolds have been increasingly considered as promising GBR scaffolds. Herein, we propose novel method fabricate an in-situ homogeneous (IMHCS) with...
Accurate measurements of skin hydration are great interest to dermatological science and clinical practice. This parameter serves as a relevant surrogate barrier function, key representative benchmark for overall health. The sensor (SHS) is soft, skin-interfaced wireless system that exploits thermal measurement method, an alternative conventional impedance-based hand-held probes. study presents multiple strategies maximizing the sensitivity reliability this previously reported SHS platform....
Irreproducible wrinkling, characterized by randomly arranged ridges or creases on material surfaces, has significant potential for application in entity identification and anti-counterfeiting. However, active research this field is hindered because the existing wrinkling methods face challenges realizing discernible patterns applications of submillimeter-scale wavelength wrinkles are yet to be identified. Herein, we propose a strategy create unique irreproducible...