Papers
9
Total Citations
2,674
H-Index
8
About
Lihua Jin is a leading researcher in soft materials and robotics, whose work has fundamentally advanced the design of self-healing electronics, soft actuators, and autonomous systems. Her key research areas include stretchable electronics, soft robotics, and stimuli-responsive hydrogels. Jin’s most impactful contribution is the development of a tough, water-insensitive self-healing elastomer for robust electronic skin (2018, 1,105 citations), which overcame critical durability challenges in wearable sensors. She also pioneered soft robotic tentacles with three-dimensional mobility (2012, 712 citations), enabling delicate object manipulation, and created a soft phototactic swimmer based on a self-sustained hydrogel oscillator (2019, 414 citations), demonstrating environment-powered locomotion. Her stretchable, strain-unperturbed pressure sensor (2021, 354 citations) solved the long-standing problem of motion interference in tactile monitoring on skin. Jin’s work on snapping-back buckling of hyperelastic columns and photodriven self-excited hydrogel oscillators further explores nonlinear mechanics and autonomous motion. Her innovations, widely cited and applied, have established her as a key figure in soft robotics and smart materials, inspiring new directions in bioinspired design and sustainable microfabrication.
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Top Papers
- 1Tough and Water‐Insensitive Self‐Healing Elastomer for Robust Electronic Skin1,105 citations · 2018
- 2Robotic Tentacles with Three‐Dimensional Mobility Based on Flexible Elastomers712 citations · 2012
- 3Soft phototactic swimmer based on self-sustained hydrogel oscillator414 citations · 2019
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- 5Snapping-back buckling of wide hyperelastic columns37 citations · 2019
- 6Photodriven Self-Excited Hydrogel Oscillators20 citations · 2022
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- 9Photo-induced spatiotemporal bending of shape memory polymer beams5 citations · 2022