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Total Citations
1,380
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About
Ghim Wei Ho is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of soft robotics, smart materials, and wearable electronics, whose work has fundamentally advanced how machines sense, move, and interact with their environments. Her research spans hydrogel engineering, thermoelectric textiles, self-healing elastomers, and biomimetic locomotion systems, consistently bridging materials science with functional device innovation. Ho's most celebrated contributions include the development of direct-ink-write 3D-printed hydrogel robots (302 citations) and somatosensory light-driven thin-film robots capable of integrated perception and motility (181 citations), demonstrating her talent for translating biological principles into engineered systems. Her 2018 work on thermo-mechanical self-propelled locomotion (177 citations) introduced self-sustaining feedback mechanisms that eliminate the need for continuous power input — a breakthrough for autonomous soft matter. She has also pioneered scalable thermoelectric fibers for textile electronics (219 citations) and self-healing magnetic elastomers for modularly programmable robots (128 citations). More recently, Ho has pushed toward computational design of strain sensors for robotic autonomy (89 citations) and magneto-mechano-chromic color-morphing robotics, reflecting her evolving focus on perception and intelligence. With over 1,300 citations across her top works alone, Ho stands as a leading voice shaping the future of intelligent, bioinspired machines.
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Top Papers
- 1Direct-Ink-Write 3D Printing of Hydrogels into Biomimetic Soft Robots302 citations · 2019
- 2Scalable thermoelectric fibers for multifunctional textile-electronics219 citations · 2020
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- 6Design of untethered soft material micromachine for life-like locomotion100 citations · 2022
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