Sukjun Kim,Gaoweiang Dong,Aedan Mangan,Devyansh Agrawal,Shengqiang Cai,Tania K. Morimoto, LCE-integrated soft skin for millimeter-scale steerable soft everting robots, Science Advances. 2025
Ram Hemanth Yeerella, Shengqiang Cai, Fracture in hexagonal honeycomb lattices undergoing large deformation, submitted
Jiyeon Cho, Minhee Lee, Taejun Park, Yang Wang, Howon Lee, Shengqiang Cai, and Yong-Lae Park, Bio-inspired Artificial Muscle-Tendon Complex of Liquid Crystal Elastomer for Bidirectional Afferent-Efferent Signaling. Advanced Materials. 2025
Tianshi Feng, Yu Pei, Haowen Zhang, Brooklyn Asai, Gaoweiang Dong, Atharva Joshi, Abhishek Saha, Shengqiang Cai , Renkun Chen, High-Flux and Stable Thin Film Evaporation from Fiber Membranes with Interconnected Pores, Joule, 2025
Somaye Jafari, Shengqiang Cai, Joseph L. Demer, Finite Element Model of the Effect of Optic Nerve Sheath Anisotropy on Ocular Loading During Horizontal Duction, Bioengineering. 2025
Qiang Guo, Shengjia Zhang, Shengqiang Cai, "Crack Deflection in Liquid Crystal Elastomers Dictated by The Maximization of Energy Release Rate: Experimentsal and Numerical Simulations". submitted
Yu Pei, Tianshi Feng, Robert Chambers, Shengqiang Cai, Renkun Chen (2025), Thermoelectrically Elevated Hydrogel Evaporation for Personal Cooling under Extreme Heat Stress. Cell Reports Physical Science
S. Krishna, J. Martinez, N. O'Shea, C. Melentyev, S. Kim, G. Dong, S. Cai, T.K. Morimoto, "Towards Soft Steerable Vine Robots Using Actuating Polymers," In IEEE 8th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 2025.
Agrawal, Devyansh; Dong, Gaoweiang; Cai, Shengqiang, Enhancing Thermo-Mechanical Properties of Liquid Crystal Elastomers through Chain Entanglements. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,2025.
Anoush Sepehri, Sukjun Kim, Devyansh Agrawal, Hannah Yared, Gaoweiang Dong, Shengqiang Cai, Tania K. Morimoto, Bundled Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators with Integrated Cooling for Meso-scale Soft Robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
Chenghai Li, Kai Qian, Fangchen Zhao, Nick Boechler, Shengqiang Cai, Amplified Sensitivity of Rate-Dependent Mechanoluminescent Metamaterials, Matter, 2025
Aanchal Jaisingh, Matthew W. Halloran,Bhausaheb S. Rajput, Robert J. Chambers, Jaysen Reindel, Katherine A. O’Shea, Shengqiang Cai, Michael D. Burkart (2024), Tailoring High Hardness and Rigidity in Biodegradable Thermoplastic Polyurethanes, ACS Applied Polymer Materials
Robert J. Chambers, Richey Jiang Li, George Youssef, and Shengqiang Cai (2025), Experimental studies of impact resistance of pressure-sensitive adhesives, Experimental Mechanics.
Ayush Giri, Alvaro Rivas, Ram Yeerella, Shengqiang Cai, Tania K. Morimoto (2025), PneuSIC Box: Pneumatic Sequential and Independent Control Box for Scalable Demultiplexing, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
Annaliese Marks; Chenghai Li; Shengqiang Cai, Wei Liao (2024), HIGH-EFFICIENCY CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE USING MACROPOROUS HYDROGEL INFUSED WITH MICROALGAL AMINO ACID SALT SOLUTION. Fuel
Ka Man Chung, Sarath R. Adapa, Yu Pei, Ram Hemanth Yeerella, Li Chen, Zhaowei Liu, Shengqiang Cai, Jian Luo, Renkun Chen (2024),Low Thermal Conductivity and Diffusivity at High Temperatures using Stable High-Entropy Spinel Oxide Nanoparticles, Advanced Materials.
Gaoweiang Dong, Fangchen Zhao, Zongyu Gao, Shengqiang Cai (2024), Liquid crystal elastomer for compression therapy, Advanced Healthcare Materials.
Shijie Feng, Sangbong Ryu, Ram Hemanth Yeerella , Ke Zhou , Quang Tuyen Tran, Sanghoon Lee, Cam Anh Thieu, Shengqiang Cai, Nguyen Q Minh, Ping Liu, Development of porous metal substrate for thin-film solidoxide fuel cells (TF-SOFCs) (2024), ACS APPLIED ENGERY MATERIALS
Herard, N., Annapooranan, R., Henry, T., Kröger, M., Cai, S., Boechler, N., and Sliozberg, Y.,(2024) “Modeling liquid crystal elastomer synthesis, mechanics, and thermal actuation via coarse-grained molecular dynamics”, Soft Matter.
Jingxuan Wang, Yue Wen, Duo Pan, Shulang Lin, Amutha Chinnappan, Qiguang He, Chuntai Liu, Zhiwei Huang, Shengqiang Cai, Seeram Ramakrishna, Sunmi Shin, High Thermal Conductive Liquid Crystal Elastomer Nanofibers, Nano Letters.
Zhaoqiang Song, Gaoweiang Dong, Franck J. Vernerey, Shengqiang Cai (2024), Temperature and rate-dependent fracture in Disulfide vitrimers, Acs Macro Letters
Raja Annapooranan,Robert J. Chambers, Shengqiang Cai (2024), High performance dielectric liquid crystal elastomer actuator enabled by its unique strain softening, submitted.
Raja Annapooranan, Ram Hemanth, Robert Chambers, Chenghai Li, Shengqiang Cai (2024), Soft elasticity enabled adhesion enhancement of liquid crystal elastomers on rough surfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Gaoweiang Dong, Tianshi Feng, Renkun Chen, Shengqiang Cai (2024), Autonomous thermal modulator based on gold film-coated liquid crystal elastomer, Advanced Materials Technologies
Chenghai Li, Qiang Guo, Robert Chambers, Shengqiang Cai(2024), Asymmetric Toughening in the Lap Shear of Metamaterial Structural Adhesives, Soft Matter
Qiang Guo, Rong Long, Shengqiang Cai (2024), Numerical study on crack tip fields in liquid crystal elastomers, International Journal of Solids and Structures
Feng, Shijie; Yeerella, Ram Hemanth; Zhou, Jianbin; Harpak, Nimrod; Li, Chenghai; Cai, Shengqiang; Liu, Ping (2024), Homogenizing Interfacial Stress by Nanoporous Metal Current Collector to Enable Stable All-Solid-State Li Metal Battery, ACS Energy Letters.
Ram Hemanth Yeerella, Shengqiang Cai (2024) Fracture mechanics modelling of aortic dissection. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology.
Zijun Wang, Yujia Dong, Raja Annapooranan, Chenghai Li, Robert Chambers, Shengqiang Cai (2024) PVC Gel-Based Electro-adhesion on Extremely Rough Surfaces. Applied Materials Today.
Haoran Liu, Hongmiao Tian, Duorui Wang, Tengfei Yuan, Jinyu Zhang, Guifang Liu, Xiangming Li, Xiaoliang Chen, Chunhui Wang, Shengqiang Cai, Jinyou Shao (2023), Electrically active smart adhesive for a perching-and-takeoff robot, Science Advances.
Chenghai Li, Nico Schramma, Zijun Wang, Nada F Qari, Maziyar Jalaal, Michael I Latz, Shengqiang Cai (2023), Ultrasensitive and robust mechanolumienscent living composite, Science Advances.
Nada Qari, Zhaoqiang Song, Shengqiang Cai (2023),Tailorable non-linear viscoelastic behavior of hydrogels, Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials.
Qiang Guo, Yue Zheng, Shengqiang Cai (2023), Modeling and numerical simulation of thermo-electro-mechanical coupling behaviors of liquid crystal elastomers, International Journal of Plasticity.
Nicolas Herard, Zijun Wang, Raja Annapooranan, Kai Qian, Po-Hsun Chiu, Bradley D Lawrence, Latha Nataraj, Todd Henry, Shengqiang Cai, Nicholas Boechler (2023), Push, snap, pull, and buckle: A material design framework enabled by cooperating active and geometrically nonlinear passive microstructures, Materials & Design.
Zhaoqiang Song, Xu Li, K Wu, Shengqiang Cai (2023), Nonequilibrium thermodynamic modeling of case II diffusion in glassy polymers, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 124, 427-445.
Li Cheng,Marlene Patino,Robert J. Chambers,Shengqiang Cai,Matthew Baldwin,Prabhakar Bandaru (2023), Investigation of the Influence of Nanoscale Porosity in the Interfacial Layers on the Mechanical Properties of Helium Plasma-Exposed Tungsten, ACS Appl. Eng. Mater.
Nada Qari, Shengqiang Cai (2023), Stress-assisted Erosion of Poly (Glycerol-co-Sebacate) Acrylate Elastomer, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics.
Robert Chambers, Bhausaheb S. Rajput, Gordon B Scofield, Jaysen Reindel, Katherine OShea, Richey Jiang Li, Ryan Simkovsky, Stephen P. Mayfield, Michael D. Burkart, Shengqiang Cai (2024), Mechanically robust and biodegradable electrospun membrane made from bioderived theromplastic polyurathane and Poly lactic acid. ACS Applied Polymer Materials.
Raja Annapooranan, Sunil Suresh Jeyakumar, Robert Chambers, Rong Long, Shengqiang Cai (2023),Ultra rate-dependent pressure sensitive adhesives enabled by soft elasticity of liquid crystal elastomers, Advanced Functional Materials.
Pinar Beyazkilic, Samet Akcimen, Bulend Ortac, Caglar Elbuken, Shengqiang Cai, and Emre Bukusoglu (2022), Contactless Pulsed and Continuous Microdroplet Release Using Photothermal Liquid Crystals , Advanced Functional Materials.
Zijun Wang, Yujia Dong, Yue Zheng, Yang Wang, Chenghai Li, Yuhang Hu, Shengqiang Cai (2023), Electrowetting of a Soft Elastic Gel, ACS Macro Letters
Gaoweiang Gong, Qiguang He, Shengqiang Cai, Magnetic vitrimer based soft robot, Soft Matter.
Kai Li, Shengqiang Cai, Controllable and versatile self-motivated motion of a fiber on a hot surface. EML.
Carey E. Dougan, Zhaoqiang Song, Hongbo Fu, Alfred J. Crosby, Shengqiang Cai, Shelly R. Peyton, Cavitation Induced Fracture of Intact Brain Tissue, Biophysical Journal.
Haiqian Yang, Estelle Berthier, Chenghai Li, Pierre Ronceray, Yu Long Han, Chase P Broedersz, Shengqiang Cai, Ming Guo (2022), Local response and emerging nonlinear elastic length scale in biopolymer matrices, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Zhijian Wang, Yang Wang, Shengqiang Cai, Jiping Yang, Liquid crystal elastomer for soft actuators, Materials Lab
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Yang Wang, Qiguang He, Zhijian Wang, Shengjia Zhang, Chenghai Li, Zijun Wang, Yong-Lae Park, Shengqiang Cai, Liquid Crystal Elastomer Based Dexterous Artificial Motor Unit. Advanced Materials.
Robert Chambers, Alexandre T. Guibert, Pengcheng Cao, H. Alicia Kim, Shengqiang Cai, Falko Kuester (2023) Gripping Aerial Topology Optimized Robot (GATOR), IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings.
H.J. Hu, H. Huang, M.H. Li, X.X. Gao, L. Yin, R.X. Qi, R.S. Wu, X.J. Chen, Y.X. Ma, K.R. Shi, C.H. Li, T.M. Maus, B. Huang, C.C.F. Lu, M.Y. Lin, S. Zhou, Z.Y. Lou, Y. Gu, Y.M. Chen, Y.S. Lei, X.Y. Wang, R.T. Wang, W.T. Yue, X.Y. Yang, Y.Z. Bian, J. Mu, G.H. Park, S. Xiang, S.Q. Cai, P.W. Corey, J. Wang, S. Xu, A wearable cardiac ultrasound imager, Nature
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Chenghai Li, Zhijian Wang, Yang Wang, Qiguang He, Rong Long, Shengqiang Cai, Effects of network structures on the fracture of hydrogel, EML.
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Qiguang He, Zhijian Wang, Yang Wang, Zijun Wang, Chenghai Li, Raja Annapooranan, Jian Zeng, Renkun Chen and Shengqiang Cai (2021), Electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator, Science Robotics.
Raja Annapooranan, Shengqiang Cai (2022), Thermally induced self-rupture of a constrained liquid crystal elastomer. Engineering Fracture Mechanics.
Kai Li, Changshen Du, Qiguang He, Shengqiang Cai, Thermally driven self-oscillation of an elastomer fiber with a hanging weight, EML.
Zijun Wang, Nick Boechler, Shengqiang Cai, Anisotropic mechanical behaviors of 3D printed liquid crystal elastomer, Additive Manufacturing.
Raja Annapooranan, Yang Wang, Shengqiang Cai (2021), Highly durable and tough liquid crystal elastomers, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Chenghai Li, Qiguang He, Yang Wang, Zhijian Wang, Zijun Wang, Raja Annapooranan, Michael I. Latz, Shengqiang Cai (2022). Highly robust and soft biohybrid mechanoluminescence for optical signaling and illumination, Nature Communication.
Zhaoqiang Song, Shengqiang Cai (2022), Needle-induced-fracking in soft solids with crack blunting, EML.
Brianna MacNider,Xudong Liang,Samantha Hoang,Maroun Abi Ghane, Shengqiang Cai, and Nicholas Boechler, Dynamic Compression of Soft Layered Materials Yields Tunable and Spatiotemporally Evolving Surface Patterns, Physical Review E
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Pengrui Wang, David Berry, Zhaoqiang Song, Wisarut Kiratitanaporn, Jacob Schimelman, Amy Moran, Frank He, Brian Xi, Shengqiang Cai, Shaochen Chen(2020). 3D printing of a biocompatible double network elastomer with digital control of mechanical properties. Advanced Functional Materials.
Zhaoqiang Song, Zhijian Wang, Shengqiang Cai, Mechanics of Vitrimer with Hybrid Networks. Mechanics of Materials.
Yue Zheng, Shengqiang Cai (2020), Analytical solutions of cavitation instability in a compressible hyperelastic solid, International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics.
Zhijian Wang, Shengqiang Cai (2020), Recent progress in dynamic covalent chemistries for liquid crystal elastomers, Journal of Materials Chemistry B (invited review).
Zijun Wang, Zhijian Wang, Yue Zheng, Qiguang He, Yang Wang, Shengqiang Cai (2020), Three dimensional printing of functionally graded liquid crystal elastomer. Science Advances.
He, Qiguang; Wang, Zhijian; Wang, Yang; Song, Zhaoqiang; Cai, Shengqiang, Recyclable and self-repairable fluid-driven liquid crystal elastomer actuator, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Christopher W. Barney, Carey E. Dougan, Kelly R. McLeod, Amir Kazemi-Moridani, Yue Zheng, Ziyu Ye, Sacchita Tiwari, Ipek Sacligil, Robert A. Riggleman, Shengqiang Cai, Jae-Hwang Lee, Shelly R. Peyton, Gregory N. Tew, and Alfred J. Crosby, (2020) Cavitation in soft matter. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Kaijin Wu, Zhaoqiang Song, Shuaishuai Zhang, Yong Ni, Shengqiang Cai, Xinglong Gong, Linghui He, and Shu-Hong Yu (2020) Discontinuous fibrous Bouligand architecture enabling formidable fracture resistance with crack orientation insensitivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Fernandes Minori, Adriane; He, Qiguang; Glick, Paul; Adibnazari, Iman; Stopol, Adrianna; Cai, Shengqiang; Tolley, Michael (2020),Reversible Actuation for Self-Folding Modular Machines using Liquid Crystal Elastomer, Smart Materials and Structures.
Hongwei Zhou, Zhaoqiang Song, Shengqiang Cai, Toughening of Poly(lactide acid) with low crystallinity through biaxial post-stretching, Journal of Polymer Science.
Xuming He, Yue Zheng, Qiguang He, Shengqiang Cai, Uniaxial Tension of a Nematic Elastomer with Inclined Mesogens, EML.
Kai Li, Zengfu Chen, Zhijian Wang, Shengqiang Cai, Self-sustained eversion or inversion of a thermally responsive torus, Physical Review E.
Yichen Zhai, Zhijian Wang, Kye-Si Kwon, Shengqiang Cai, Darren Lipomi, Tse Nga Ng (2020), Printing Multi-Material Organic Haptic Actuators, Advanced Materials.
Sacchita Tiwari, Amir Kazemi-Moridani, Yue Zheng, Christopher W. Barney , Kelly R, McLeod, Carey E. Dougan, Alfred J. Crosby, Gregory N. Tew, Shelly R. Peyton, Shengqiang Cai, Jae-Hwang Lee, Seeded laser-induced cavitation for studying high-strain-rate irreversible deformation of soft materials, Soft Matter.
Kai Li, Xiang Su, Shengqiang Cai, Self-sustained rolling of a thermally responsive rod on a hot surface, EML.
Hui Li, Yue Zheng, Yulong Han, Shengqiang Cai, Ming Guo (2021), Nonlinear elasticity of biological basement membrane revealed by rapid inflation and deflation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Zhaoqiang Song, Tong Shen, Franck Vernerey, Shengqiang Cai, Force-dependent bond dissociation explains the rate-dependent fracture of vitrimers. Soft Matter.
Zhaoqiang Song, Shengqiang Cai, Cavitation dynamics in a vitrimer, Acta Mechanica Sinica
Tong Shen, Zhaoqiang Song, Shengqiang Cai, Franck Vernerey (2021), Non-steady fracture of transient networks: the case of vitrimer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Wang, Z., He, Q., Wang, Y.& Cai, S. (2019). Programmable actuation of liquid crystal elastomer via “living” exchange reaction. Soft Matter.
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Zhaoqiang Song, Yong Ni and Shengqiang Cai (2019). Fracture Modes and Hybrid Toughening Mechanisms in Oscillated/Twisted Plywood Structure. Acta Biomaterialia.
Chihyung Ahn, Xudong Liang and Shengqiang Cai (2019).Bioinspired design of light-powered crawling, squeezing and jumping of an untethered soft robot. Advanced Materials Techologies.
Xiongfei Lv, Liww Liu, Jinsong Leng, Yanju Liu, Shengqiang Cai (2019). Delayed electromechanical Instability of a Viscoelastic Dielectric Elastomer Balloon. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.
Jinrong Li, Yang Wang, Liwu Liu, Sheng Xu, Yanju Liu, Jinsong Leng, Shengqiang Cai (2019). A Biomimetic Soft Lens Controlled by Electrooculographic Signal, Advanced Functional Materials.
Qiguang He, Zhijian Wang, Yang Wang, Adriane Minori, Michael T. Tolley, Shengqiang Cai (2019), Electrically controlled liquid crystal elastomer–based soft tubular actuator with multimodal actuation, Science Advances.
Yue Zheng, Shengqiang Cai (2019), Determining prestrains in an elastomer through elliptical indentation. Journal of Applied Mechanics.
Yue Zheng, Yang Lai, Yuhang Hu, Shengqiang Cai (2019), Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a confined elastic soft cylinder, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids .
Jiliang Hu, Yiwei Li, Yukun Hao, Tianqi Zheng, German Alberto Parada, Huayin Wu, Shaoting Lin, Shida Wang, Xuanhe Zhao, Robert D. Goldman, Shengqiang Cai and Ming Guo (2019), High stretchability, strength, and toughness of living cells enabled by hyperelastic vimentin intermediate filaments, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Christopher W. Barney, Yue Zheng, Shuai Wu, Shengqiang Cai and Alfred J. Crosby (2019), Residual Strain Effects in Needle-Induced Cavitation. Soft Matter.
Qiguang He, Yue Zheng, Zhijian Wang, Xuming He, Shengqiang Cai (2019), Anomalous Inflation of a Nematic Balloon. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids .
Jianyou Zhou, Shengqiang Cai, Liying Jiang (2019), Predicting the electrical breakdown strength of elastomers, EML
Zijun Wang, Qiguang He, Shengqiang Cai, Artificial muscles for underwater soft robotic system, Book Chapter
Zhaoqiang Song, Xiaodong Liang, Kai Li, Shengqiang Cai, Surface Mechanics of a Stretched Elastomer Layer Bonded on a Rigid Substrate, International Journal of Solids and Structures.
Yang Wang, Zhijian Wang, Qiguang He, Prajval Iyer, Shengqiang Cai, Electrically controlled soft actuator with multiple and reprogrammable actuation modes, Advanced Intelligent Systems.
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