Hong‐Bo Sun

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Hong-Bo Sun is a leading researcher in smart materials, micro-nanofabrication, and bioinspired robotics, whose work has fundamentally advanced our understanding of stimuli-responsive actuators and their applications in intelligent systems. His research centers on developing functional materials—particularly graphene oxide and carbon-based composites—that can convert environmental stimuli such as light, moisture, and heat into precise mechanical work, effectively mimicking biological systems like muscles and musculoskeletal architectures. Sun's most celebrated contributions include pioneering photothermal actuation strategies using carbon-based materials (505 citations) and demonstrating how moisture-responsive graphene paper can enable controllable, bioinspired soft robots. His innovative use of femtosecond laser programming to fabricate artificial musculoskeletal systems at the micro-nanoscale (196 citations) represents a remarkable technical achievement, enabling unprecedented precision in microbot design. He has further expanded this toolkit through plasmonic-assisted graphene oxide artificial muscles and laser-induced graphene tapes exploiting the Marangoni effect for remote light-driven actuation. Beyond actuators, Sun's group has contributed to 3D-printed programmable hydrogel microstructures and miniature compound eye cameras, demonstrating the impressive breadth of his research vision. Collectively accumulating well over 1,900 citations across these landmark studies, Sun's work continues to inspire the next generation of intelligent soft robotics and advanced microsystems engineering.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Carbon‐Based Photothermal Actuators

   505 citations · 2018
2. 2
   Moisture‐Responsive Graphene Paper Prepared by Self‐Controlled Photoreduction

   244 citations · 2014
3. 3
   Plasmonic‐Assisted Graphene Oxide Artificial Muscles

   204 citations · 2018
4. 4
   Femtosecond laser programmed artificial musculoskeletal systems

   196 citations · 2020
5. 5
   Laser‐Induced Graphene Tapes as Origami and Stick‐On Labels for Photothermal Manipulation via Marangoni Effect

   150 citations · 2020
6. 6
   Bioinspired Soft Robots Based on the Moisture‐Responsive Graphene Oxide

   134 citations · 2021
7. 7
   Humidity-responsive actuation of programmable hydrogel microstructures based on 3D printing

   133 citations · 2017
8. 8
   Quantum‐Confined‐Superfluidics‐Enabled Moisture Actuation Based on Unilaterally Structured Graphene Oxide Papers

   131 citations · 2019
9. 9
   Miniature optoelectronic compound eye camera

   125 citations · 2022
10. 10
    A “Yin”-“Yang” complementarity strategy for design and fabrication of dual-responsive bimorph actuators

    94 citations · 2019

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