MD Nahin Islam Shiblee

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MD Nahin Islam Shiblee is a leading researcher at the intersection of 4D printing, soft robotics, and smart materials, with a particular focus on shape-memory hydrogels and stimuli-responsive polymers. His pioneering work has fundamentally advanced the programmable fabrication of soft actuators, enabling complex, time-dependent shape transformations that mimic biological systems. His most influential paper, "4D Printing of Shape‐Memory Hydrogels for Soft‐Robotic Functions" (2019), has garnered 195 citations and introduced a novel bilayer system for creating soft, biomimetic robots. He further demonstrated tunable mechanical properties in 3D-printed shape memory hydrogels (74 citations) and authored a comprehensive review on 4D printing of gel materials (73 citations). Shiblee has also innovated in electrically conductive composite materials and developed the MORI-A soft vacuum-actuated module, a 3D-printable deformation structure for soft robots. His recent work on hinge-controlled 4D printing and self-healing robotic blood vessel mechanisms highlights his ongoing contributions to creating more adaptive, durable, and human-interactive soft robots. With a strong record of high-impact publications, Shiblee is shaping the future of intelligent, soft-matter robotics.

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1. 1
   4D Printing of Shape‐Memory Hydrogels for Soft‐Robotic Functions

   195 citations · 2019
2. 2
   3D printing of shape memory hydrogels with tunable mechanical properties

   74 citations · 2018
3. 3
   Review—Recent Progresses in 4D Printing of Gel Materials

   73 citations · 2020
4. 4
   3D printing of electrically conductive hybrid organic–inorganic composite materials

   24 citations · 2018
5. 5
   4D Printing of Hydrogels Controlled by Hinge Structure and Spatially Gradient Swelling for Soft Robots

   22 citations · 2023
6. 6
   MORI-A: Soft Vacuum-Actuated Module With 3D-Printable Deformation Structure

   17 citations · 2022
7. 7
   Local Discrimination Based on Piezoelectric Sensing in Robots Composed of Soft Matter with Different Physical Properties

   4 citations · 2022
8. 8
   MORI-A CPS: 3D printed soft actuators with 4D assembly simulation

   3 citations · 2023
9. 9
   (Invited) Soft-Matter Robot That Communicates Humans By Contacting

   3 citations · 2020
10. 10
    Robotic Blood Vessel Mechanism to Realize Active Self-Healing Function for Inflatable Actuators^*

    2 citations · 2024

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