Hedan Bai
Papers
13
Total Citations
1,279
H-Index
10
About
Hedan Bai is pioneering the intersection of soft robotics, functional materials, and intelligent sensing. Her research centers on developing stretchable, self-healing optical sensors and additive manufacturing techniques for soft machines. Bai’s most influential contribution is the creation of stretchable distributed fiber-optic sensors (2020, 462 citations), which enable high-resolution strain and pressure sensing in soft, deformable structures—a critical advance for soft robotics. She further demonstrated digital light processing of liquid crystal elastomers to produce self-sensing artificial muscles (2021, 256 citations), capable of reversible grasping and untethered locomotion. Her work on optical lace for synthetic afferent neural networks (2019, 91 citations) provides a bio-inspired tactile sensing platform, while her autonomous self-healing optical sensors (2022, 73 citations) introduce damage-intelligent soft systems. Bai has also contributed to haptic interfaces for virtual and augmented reality (2021, 102 citations) and authored a comprehensive review on bio-inspired design and additive manufacturing of soft materials (2019, 203 citations). Her research, recognized with over 1,200 total citations, is shaping the next generation of resilient, perceptive, and sustainable soft robots.
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Top Papers
- 1Stretchable distributed fiber-optic sensors462 citations · 2020
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- 4Elastomeric Haptic Devices for Virtual and Augmented Reality102 citations · 2021
- 5Optical lace for synthetic afferent neural networks91 citations · 2019
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- 7Simple Synthesis of Elastomeric Photomechanical Switches That Self‐Heal30 citations · 2019
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- 9Reducing Metabolic Cost During Planetary Ambulation Using Robotic Actuation12 citations · 2021
- 10The new material science towards sustainable robotics10 citations · 2024