Zhilu Yang

Southwest Jiaotong University, Southern Medical University, Dongguan People’s Hospital

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About

Zhilu Yang is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of soft materials, 3D printing, and stretchable bioelectronics. Their most influential work introduced a permeable, superelastic liquid-metal fibre mat that enables biocompatible and monolithic stretchable electronics—a breakthrough cited over 729 times that addresses the critical challenge of combining mechanical compliance with electronic functionality for wearable and implantable devices. More recently, Yang has advanced tissue engineering through innovative 3D printing strategies. They developed diffusion-induced phase separation (DIPS) 3D printing to create dynamic, hydrogen-bonded hydrogel scaffolds for tissue repair, and introduced immersion phase separation (IPS) 3D printing to fabricate strain-stiffening hydrogel scaffolds that mimic the nonlinear mechanical behavior of natural tissues like skin and arteries. These contributions demonstrate Yang’s ability to translate fundamental principles of polymer physics and phase separation into practical fabrication technologies. By enabling the printing of hydrogels with precisely controlled mechanical properties and architectures, their work is shaping the future of regenerative medicine and soft robotics.