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About
Haiyi Liang is a leading researcher in soft robotics and smart materials, with a focus on developing stimuli-responsive actuators, hydrogels, and elastomers for autonomous and bio-inspired systems. Their major contributions include pioneering work on large-area graphene-based photothermal actuators, which achieved over 116 citations for enabling transparent, ultrasensitive robotic motions under infrared light. Liang also advanced self-oscillating systems, such as liquid crystal elastomer robots that move under constant illumination, and developed strong, fast-actuating hydrogel actuators using elastic potential energy storage. Notable achievements include creating solvent-responsive hydrogels with programmable deformation and shape memory for load-carrying soft robots, as well as stretchable, self-healable organohydrogels for electronic skin with low-temperature tolerance. Liang’s research on bio-inspired magneto-sensitive elastomers and transparent 3D-printed force sensors further demonstrates their impact, with multiple papers garnering 20–116 citations. Their work on compliant flipper-legs for amphibious robots highlights a commitment to practical, multimodal locomotion. With a portfolio spanning over a decade, Liang has significantly influenced the design of autonomous, adaptive soft materials and robots, earning recognition for integrating active elasticity, distributed computation, and multi-stimuli responsiveness into next-generation intelligent systems.
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- 8Transparent and flexible force sensor based on microextrusion 3D printing15 citations · 2018
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