Microrobotics. We developed a bioinspired fillable microrobotic system and a versatile platform to fabricate fillable microrobots using Microfluidic Loading and Dip Sealing (MLDS). MLDS enables the encapsulation of different types of cargoes within hollow microrobots and protection of cargo integrity. (Advanced Materials, 2023, 35(13): 2207791. Advanced Materials, 2022, 34(43): 2204791.)
Soft robotics. We described programmable and reconfigurable composite materials based on natural fibres and shape memory polymers that extend the current one-to-one relation between external humidity and final actuated shape. (Applied Materials Today, 2022, 27, 101414). Additionally, We developed a multimaterial soft actuator comprising a hydrophilic pH-responsive hydrogel, an adhesive layer, and a hydrophobic shape-memory polymer. (Advanced Materials 2024: 2312135.)
We studied in-plane mechanical behavior of the presented auxetic hybrid metamaterials, which combines a core unit cell of re-entrant or cross-chiral shape and lateral missing ribs (Thin-Walled Structures, 2021,159, 107191)
2D electronics. Based on novel mechanical design concept and mechanics simulation, we proposed a stretchable electronics system with wireless communications and high-performance sensing capacity. Its applications have been demonstrated in various conditions, including wearables, and in-vitro/ex-vivo tests. (Advanced Materials Technologies. 2019, 4(5), 1900100).
3D electronics. Based on the mechanics buckling, which provides a suitable way to design 3d system from 2d configuration, we developed tunable, multi-modal, and multi-directional vibration energy harvester based on three-dimensional architected metastructures for the first time. (Applied Energy. 2020,264: 114615) and mechanically active 3D MEMS (Science advances, 2018, 4(9): eaat8313.)