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About
Xiaowei Pei is a leading researcher in the design of smart, stimuli-responsive hydrogels, with a focus on achieving dynamic control over adhesion, friction, and actuation for soft robotics and biomedical devices. Her major contributions lie in developing strategies to reversibly switch hydrogel adhesion—from sticky to non-sticky—by anchoring thin adhesive coatings and exploiting dynamic multiscale contact synergy, as demonstrated in her highly cited works (90 and 80 citations, respectively). She has pioneered robust soft actuators that respond rapidly underwater, using simultaneous surface covalent bonding and radical polymerization, and has drawn inspiration from nature to create sundew-like actuators for reversible underwater object capture and esophagus-inspired devices for solid transportation. Pei has also critically reviewed mussel-inspired underwater adhesives, synthesizing knowledge from adhesion mechanisms to engineering applications. Her work, totaling over 300 citations, is defined by its practical, bioinspired approach to solving fundamental challenges in wet adhesion and actuation, making her a key innovator in the field of intelligent soft materials.
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