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Guoxu Liu is an emerging researcher specializing in triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), flexible electronics, and bio-inspired sensing systems, with significant contributions to the fields of energy harvesting and human-machine interaction. His most celebrated work, the stretchable triboelectric–photonic smart skin (2018, 256 citations), demonstrated a groundbreaking approach to multidimensional tactile and gesture sensing for robotic hands, combining triboelectric and photonic principles in a single stretchable platform. Liu has also made influential contributions to energy harvesting, showing through rigorous analysis that triboelectric nanogenerators outperform traditional electromagnetic generators for capturing small-amplitude mechanical energy (2019, 217 citations). His pioneering research in tribotronics—the coupling of triboelectricity with semiconductor transport—has opened new avenues for self-powered mechanosensation and active microsystems. More recently, Liu has pushed boundaries in neuromorphic engineering, developing flexible tribotronic artificial synapses that mimic biological neurosensory behavior, advancing the frontier of artificial afferent nervous systems. With a cumulative citation count surpassing 700 across his key publications, Liu's interdisciplinary research bridges materials science, robotics, and bioelectronics, establishing him as a compelling voice in next-generation wearable and intelligent sensing technologies.