Publication List

Journal Papers

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2026

[16]. Jiaqi Miao, Yiyuan Zhang*, Liqiu Wang*, Alan C. H. Tsang*. Bioinspired Adaptive Surfaces for Intelligent Liquid Manipulation: Progressing from Passive and Active to Hybrid Strategies. (submitted).

2025

[15]. Jiaqi Miao, Jingxuan Li, Alan C. H. Tsang*. Competition and Synergy in Programmable Open Microfluidics: Thermal Fields vs Structural Heterogeneities. Nano Letters, 2025, 25, 12495–12502. [link] [PDF] (Supplementary Cover)

[14]. Jingxuan Li#, Jiaqi Miao#, Alan C. H. Tsang*. Self-Regulated Photoresponsive Heterogeneous PNIPAM Hydrogel Actuators. Nanoscale, 2025, 17, 16230–16238. [link] [PDF] (Inside Front Cover)

[13]. Jiaqi Miao, Alan C. H. Tsang*. Smart Directional Liquid Manipulation on Curvature-Ratchet Surfaces. ACS Nano, 2025, 19, 5829–5838. [link] [PDF]

2024

[12]. Jiaqi Miao, Alan C. H. Tsang*. Reconfigurability-Encoded Hierarchical Rectifiers for Versatile 3D Liquid Manipulation. Advanced Science, 2024, 11, 2405641. [link] [PDF] (Inside Front Cover)

[11]. Jiaqi Miao*. Bioinspired Multi-Asymmetric Magnetized Surfaces for Tailored Liquid Operations and 3-DOF Solid Transport. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2024, 368, 115104. [link] [PDF]

2023

[10]. Jiaqi Miao*, Siqi Sun. Design, Actuation, and Functionalization of Untethered Soft Magnetic Robots with Life-Like Motions: A Review. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2023, 586, 171160. [link] [PDF]

[9]. Jiaqi Miao#, Tieshan Zhang#, Gen Li, Dong Guo, Siqi Sun, Rong Tan, Jiahai Shi, Yajing Shen*. Flagellar/Ciliary Intrinsic Driven Mechanism Inspired All-in-one Tubular Robotic Actuator. Engineering, 2023, 23, 170–180. [link] [PDF]

[8]. Siqi Sun#, Jiaqi Miao#, Rong Tan, Tieshan Zhang, Gen Li, Yajing Shen*. Asymmetric Soft‐Structure Functional Surface for Intelligent Liquids’ Distinction, Transportation, and Reaction Mixer. ​Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 33, 2209769. [link] [PDF]

2022

[7]. Jiaqi Miao#, Siqi Sun#, Tieshan Zhang, Gen Li, Hao Ren, Yajing Shen*. ​Natural Cilia and Pine Needles Combinedly Inspired Asymmetric Pillar Actuators for All-Space Liquid Transport and Self-Regulated Robotic Locomotion. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022, 14, 50296–50307. [link] [PDF]

[6]. Jiaqi Miao, Tieshan Zhang, Gen Li, Wanfeng Shang, Yajing Shen*. Magnetic Artificial Cilia Carpets for Transport, Mixing, and Directional Diffusion. Advanced Engineering Materials, 2022, 24, 2101399. ​[link] [PDF]

[5]. Liu Yang, Jiaqi Miao, Gen Li, Hao Ren, Tieshan Zhang, Dong Guo, Yifeng Tang, Wanfeng Shang, Yajing Shen*. Soft Tunable Gelatin Robot with Insect-like Claw for Grasping, Transportation, and Delivery. ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2022, 4, 5431–5440. [link] [PDF]

[4]. Siqi Sun, Jie Yang*, Yun-Hsuan Chen, Jiaqi Miao, Mohamad Sawang*. EEG Signals Based Internet Addiction Diagnosis Using Convolutional Neural Networks. Applied Sciences, 2022, 12, 6297. [link] [PDF]

[3]. Rong Tan, Xiong Yang, Haojian Lu, Liu Yang, Tieshan Zhang, Jiaqi Miao, Yu Feng, Yajing Shen*. Nanofiber-based biodegradable millirobot with controllable anchoring and adaptive stepwise release functions. Matter, 2022, 5, 1277–1295. [link] [PDF]

2021

[2]. Dong Guo, Gen Li, Jiaqi Miao, Yajing Shen*. A Smartphone-Based Calibration-Free Portable Urinalysis Device. Journal of Central South University, 2021, 28, 3829–3837. ​[link] [PDF]

[1]. Jiaqi Miao, Xiaolong Li, Bo Liang, Jiongzhe Wang, Xiaofei Xu*. Enhancing Swimming Performance by Optimizing Structure of Helical Swimmers. Sensors, 2021, 21, 494. ​[link] [PDF]

Conferences

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2025

[5]. Jiaqi Miao#, Jingxuan Li, Alan C. H. Tsang*. Thermal-Regulated Structured Surfaces for Programmable Open Microfluidics. 29th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2025).

[4]. Jiaqi Miao#, Alan C. H. Tsang*. Smart Directional Liquid Manipulation on Structured Surfaces. 2nd International Meeting on Wetting and Carbon Neutralisation (IMWCN).

2024

[3]. Jiaqi Miao#, Alan C. H. Tsang*. Magnetically Reconfigurable Rectifiers for Versatile 3D Liquid Manipulation. 77th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics. [link]

[2]. Jiaqi Miao#, Alan C. H. Tsang*. Structured Rectifiers for Multimodal Directional Liquid Manipulation. 27th Annual Conference of HKSTAM.

[1]. Jiaqi Miao#, Alan C. H. Tsang*. Curvature-Induced Liquid Manipulation by Customizable Morphing Surfaces. APS March Meeting. [link]