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Fuyao Sun is a leading materials scientist whose research focuses on the design of self-healing, mechanically robust soft materials for next-generation flexible electronics and bioinspired sensors. Sun’s major contributions lie in engineering supramolecular architectures that simultaneously achieve unprecedented crack propagation resistance and autonomous room-temperature self-healing—properties that are typically mutually exclusive in soft polymers. Their landmark 2023 paper on a self-healing soft composite network with a supramolecular assembled lamellar structure has garnered 195 citations, establishing a new paradigm for fatigue-resistant stretchable devices. In 2024, Sun advanced this concept by developing a highly tough, crack-resistant piezo-ionic skin that mimics biological skin’s mechanosensitive ionic channels, enabling both superior toughness and self-healability for prolonged service life in intelligent systems. This work, already cited 29 times, demonstrates Sun’s ability to translate fundamental polymer physics into functional electronic skins. Their research has profound implications for durable wearable electronics, soft robotics, and human-machine interfaces, positioning Sun as a rising innovator in the field of dynamic, self-repairing materials.
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