Shaoli Fang

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Shaoli Fang is a leading researcher in the field of smart textiles and artificial muscles, with a focus on developing advanced fiber-based actuators that respond to environmental stimuli such as moisture, humidity, and temperature. Their major contributions include the creation of moisture-sensitive smart yarns and textiles from self-balanced silk fiber muscles (307 citations), which have opened new avenues for adaptive clothing and soft robotics. Fang also pioneered downsized sheath-core conducting fibers for weavable superelastic wires, biosensors, supercapacitors, and strain sensors (159 citations), demonstrating versatile applications in wearable electronics. Their work on electromechanical actuators using graphene and polydiacetylene (154 citations) and photothermal bimorph actuators for light mills and soft robots (142 citations) has advanced the field of responsive materials. Notable achievements include developing hydrogel actuators with tunable, fast, and robust properties (111 citations) and humidity-responsive lotus fiber yarn artificial muscles (81 citations). With over 1,000 total citations across their top papers, Fang’s research continues to inspire innovations in soft robotics, biomedical devices, and intelligent textiles.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Moisture Sensitive Smart Yarns and Textiles from Self‐Balanced Silk Fiber Muscles

   307 citations · 2019
2. 2
   Downsized Sheath–Core Conducting Fibers for Weavable Superelastic Wires, Biosensors, Supercapacitors, and Strain Sensors

   159 citations · 2016
3. 3
   Electromechanical Actuator with Controllable Motion, Fast Response Rate, and High-Frequency Resonance Based on Graphene and Polydiacetylene

   154 citations · 2012
4. 4
   Photothermal Bimorph Actuators with In‐Built Cooler for Light Mills, Frequency Switches, and Soft Robots

   142 citations · 2019
5. 5
   Tunable, Fast, Robust Hydrogel Actuators Based on Evaporation-Programmed Heterogeneous Structures

   111 citations · 2017
6. 6
   Humidity- and Water-Responsive Torsional and Contractile Lotus Fiber Yarn Artificial Muscles

   81 citations · 2021
7. 7
   Large stroke radially oriented MXene composite fiber tensile artificial muscles

   39 citations · 2025
8. 8
   A General Approach for Buckled Bulk Composites by Combined Biaxial Stretch and Layer‐by‐Layer Deposition and Their Electrical and Electromagnetic Applications

   38 citations · 2019
9. 9
   Mandrel-free fabrication of giant spring-index and stroke muscles for diverse applications

   31 citations · 2025
10. 10
    Fast, variable stiffness-induced braided coiled artificial muscles

    16 citations · 2024

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