Papers
7
Total Citations
1,418
H-Index
5
About
Ruiyuan Liu is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of smart materials, energy harvesting, and soft robotics, whose work has fundamentally advanced how electronic devices sense, power, and adapt to the world around them. With a strong focus on flexible and self-charging power sources, Liu's 2022 review on the subject has already amassed nearly 500 citations, reflecting its broad influence across the field. His groundbreaking 2018 work on shape memory polymers introduced the first transformable smart energy harvester capable of body motion energy harvesting and self-powered mechanosensation, earning over 350 citations and opening new pathways for deformable, durable portable electronics. Equally impactful is his development of triboelectric proximity- and pressure-sensing skins for soft robots, enabling organism-like perception and responsiveness — a contribution cited over 340 times. Liu has also made notable strides in self-healing electronic skins and contributed to the field-defining roadmap on soft robotics. His research consistently bridges materials science and robotics, producing technologies with transformative implications for human-machine interaction, wearable electronics, and autonomous systems.
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- 1Flexible self-charging power sources498 citations · 2022
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- 6Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Electronic and Robotic Skins3 citations · 2023
- 7Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Electronic and Robotic Skins2 citations · 2023