Publications

 2025

Zhao, Y., Li, W*., Jiang, J., Li, Z., Ma, J., Chen, H., Mo, L., Cheng, L., Jin, L., Liang, X*., He, Q*. Electronics-free pneumatic robots for Post-Stroke rehabilitation. Materials & Design.

Wang, D., Liu, T., Tian, H*., Zhang, J., He, Q., Li, X., Wang, C., Chen, X., Shao, J*. Stiffness Gradient Adhesive Structure with Mushroom-shaped Morphology via Electrically Activated One-Step Growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Alù, A., Arrieta, A., Dottore, D E., Dickey, M., Ferracin, S., Harne, R., Hauser, H., He, Q., Hopkins, B, J.,  Hyatt, P, L., Li, S*., Marian, S., Mazzolai, B., Mondini, A., Pal, A., Preston, J, D., Rajappan, A., Raney, R, J., Reis P., Sarles, A, S., Sitti, M., Ubamanyu, K, U., Van Hecke, M., and Wang, KW*. Roadmap on embodying mechano-intelligence and computing in functional materials and structures. Smart Materials and Structures. 

Li, W., Luo, F*., Liu, Y., Zou, Y., Mo, L., He, Q., Lin, P., Xu, Q., Liu, A., Zhang, C., Cheng, J*., Cheng, L*., Ji, L. Bioinspired Smart Triboelectric Soft Pneumatic Actuator-Enabled Hand Rehabilitation Robot. Advanced Materials.

 2024

Zhang, H., An, J., Pan, T., Kaur, U., Wang, Z., Wang, X., He, Q*., Ma, X*. Miniature Reconfigurable Modular Soft Robots Using Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuation. International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR).

Niu, Z., He, Q*., Chen C*. A PM 2.5 Pollution-Level Adaptive Air Filtration System based on Elastic Nanofibers for Reducing Energy Consumption. Journal of Hazardous Materials.

He, Q., Yin, R., Hua, Y., Shu. H., Zhu, X., Haque, T. A.B.M., Ferracin, S., Patel, S., Jiao, W.,  Raney, R, J*. Modular stimuli responsive valves for pneumatic soft actuators. Advanced Intelligent Systems.

Liu, C., Jin, L., Liao, W., Wang, Z*., He, Q*. Achieving rapid actuation in liquid crystal elastomers. National Science Open.

Wang, J., Wen, Y., Pan, D., Lin, S., Amutha, C., He, Q., Liu, C., Huang, Z., Cai, S., Ramakrishna, S., Shin, S*. High thermal conductive liquid crystal elastomer nanofibers. Nano Letters.

Jiao, W., Shu, H., He, Q., Raney, R, J*. Mechanical proprioception in autonomously-reconfigurable multi-stable metamaterials. Philosophical Transactions A.

He, Q., Ferracin, S., Raney, R, J*. Programmable responsive metamaterials for mechanical computing and robotics. Nature Computational Science.

Feng, W*., He, Q*., Zhang, L*. Embedded Physical Intelligence in Liquid Crystalline Polymer Actuators and Robots. Advanced Materials.

 2023

Zhou, J., Chen, W., Cao, H., He, Q*., Liu, Y*.(2023). Antagonistic Pump With Multiple Pumping Modes for On-Demand Soft Robot Actuation and Control. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.

Wang, Y., He, Q., Wang, Z., Zhang S., Li, C., Wang, Z., Park, YL*., Cai, S*. (2023). Liquid Crystal Elastomer Based Dexterous Artificial Motor Unit. Advanced Materials.

He, Q., Yin, R., Hua, Y., Jiao, W., Mo, C., Shu, H., Raney, R, J*. (2023). A modular, embodied control strategy for electronics-free soft robots. Science Advances. 

 2022

Wang, Z., Boothby, J., Roach J, D*., He Q*. (2022). Soft robotics based on liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs). Frontiers in Robotics & AI. 

Dong, G., He, Q., Cai, S*. (2022). Magnetic Vitrimer-based soft robotics. Soft Matter.

Li, C., He, Q., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Wang, Z., Annapooranan, R., Latz, M., Cai, S*. (2022). Highly robust and powerless soft biohybrid mechanoluminescence. Nature Communications.

Li, K., Du, C., He, Q., Cai, S*. (2022). Thermally driven self-oscillation of an elastomer fiber with a hanging weight. Extreme Mechanics Letters.

 2021

Li, C., Wang, Z., Wang, Y., He, Q., Long, R., Cai, S*. (2021). Effects of network structures on the fracture of hydrogel. Extreme Mechanics Letters.

He, Q., Wang, Z., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Li, C., Annapooranan, R., Zeng, J., Chen, R., Cai, S*. (2021). Electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator. Science Robotics.

Wang, Z., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., He, Q., Li, C., Cai, S*. (2021). 3D Printing of Electrically Responsive PVC Gel Actuators. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 

He, Q., Cai, S*. (2021). Soft pumps for soft robots. Science Robotics.

Wang, Z., He, Q., Cai, S*. (2021). Artificial Muscles for Underwater Soft Robotics System. Bioinspired Sensing, Actuation and Control in Soft Robotic Systems. 

 2020

He, X., Zheng Y., He, Q., Cai, S*. (2020). Uniaxial tension of a nematic elastomer with inclined mesogens. Extreme Mechanics Letters.

Wang, Z., Wang, Z., Zheng, Y., He, Q., Wang, Y., Cai, S*. (2020). Three-dimensional printing of functionally graded liquid crystal elastomer. Science Advances.

He, Q., Zheng, Y., Wang, Z., Cai, S*. (2020). Anomalous inflation of a nematic balloon. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.

Minor, A, F., He, Q., Glick, P, E., Adibnazari, I., Stopol, A., Cai, S., Tolley, M, T*. (2020). Reversible actuation for self-folding modular machines using liquid crystal elastomer. Smart Materials and Structures. 

He, Q., Wang, Z., Wang, Y., Song, Z., Cai, S*. (2020). Recyclable and self-repairable fluid-driven liquid crystal elastomer actuator. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 

Wang, Y., Wang, Z., He, Q., Cai, S*. (2020). Electrically controlled soft actuators with multiple and reprogrammable actuation modes. Advanced Intelligent Systems. 

2019

He, Q., Wang, Z., Wang, Y., Minori, A, F., Tolley, M, T., Cai, S*. (2019). Electrically controlled soft actuators with multiple and reprogrammable actuation modes. Science Advances. 

Wang, Z., Li, K., He, Q., Cai, S*. (2019). A Light-Powered Ultralight Tensegrity Robot with High Deformability and Load Capacity. Advanced Materials. 

Wang, Z., He, Q., Wang, Y., Cai, S*. (2019). Programmable actuation of liquid crystal elastomers via "living" exchange reaction. Soft matter.

He, Q., Wang, Z., Song, Z., Cai, S*. (2019). Bioinspired design of vascular artificial muscle. Advanced Materials Technologies. 

Before 2019

Wang, Z., Tian, H., He, Q., Cai, S*. (2017). Reprogrammable, reprocessible, and self-healable liquid crystal elastomer with exchangeable disulfide bonds. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Minori, A, F., Jadhav, S., He, Q., Cai, S., Tolley, M,T*. (2017). Reversible actuation of origami inspired composites using liquid crystal elastomers. Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems. 

Wang, Z., Fan, W., He, Q., Wang, Y., Liang, X., Cai, S*. (2017). A simple and robust way towards reversible mechanochromism: Using liquid crystal elastomer as a mask. Extreme Mechanics Letters.

Sun, B., Wang, Z., He, Q., Fan, W., Cai, S*. (2017). Porous double network gels with high toughness, high stretchability and fast solvent-absorption. Soft matter.

He, Q., Wang, Z., Yan, Y., Zheng, J., Cai, S*. (2016). Polymer nanofiber reinforced double network gel composite: Strong, tough and transparent. Extreme Mechanics Letters.

Yang, D*., He, C., Li, M., He, Q. (2015). Vehicle steering and lane-changing behavior recognition based on a support vector machine. Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology).