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Kunyan Sui is a leading researcher in the design of advanced hydrogel materials, with a focus on bioinspired actuators, flexible sensors, and smart responsive systems. Their most impactful work includes the development of a ternary ionic hydrogel sensor that leverages multiple weak hydrogen bonds to achieve high sensitivity, stretchability, self-adhesion, and self-healing properties—a breakthrough for skin-mountable wearable electronics, cited over 330 times. Sui also pioneered the use of dual-gradient structures in hydrogels to enable ultrafast, biomimetic snapping deformations, mimicking natural rapid movements like the Venus flytrap, with over 230 citations. Additionally, they introduced an ultrafast, green fabrication method for gradient nanoporous all-polysaccharide films, creating strong, multiresponsive actuators from natural polymers. More recently, Sui has advanced the field by programming sequential shape transformations and constructing complex 3D shape-changing hydrogels through light-modulated internal stress fields. With cumulative citations exceeding 750 across their top works, Sui’s innovations in hydrogel design have significant implications for soft robotics, biomedical devices, and adaptive materials, establishing them as a key contributor to smart polymer science.