Papers
26
Total Citations
2,341
H-Index
17
About
Qi Ge is a pioneering researcher at the forefront of advanced manufacturing, soft robotics, and smart materials, whose work has fundamentally expanded the capabilities of 3D and 4D printing technologies. His research centers on multimaterial digital light processing (DLP)-based fabrication, shape-memory polymers, soft actuators, and bioinspired mechanical design—fields where he has consistently delivered breakthrough innovations. Ge's most celebrated contribution, a hybrid multimaterial 3D-printed soft actuator with fast-response stiffness tuning (504 citations), elegantly addressed a critical limitation in soft robotics: the trade-off between flexibility and load-bearing capacity. His work on anisotropically fatigue-resistant hydrogels (320 citations) drew inspiration from nature's structural hierarchy to produce synthetic materials with extraordinary durability. Meanwhile, his UV-curable shape-memory polymers for 4D printing (316 citations) opened new pathways for programmable, stimulus-responsive structures. Ge has also pioneered centrifugal multimaterial 3D printing (214 citations) and two-photon polymerization-based 4D printing at micro/nanoscale resolution, demonstrating exceptional breadth across length scales. With over 2,000 cumulative citations across his top works alone, his contributions have profoundly shaped how researchers design, fabricate, and actuate next-generation intelligent structures and robotic systems.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
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- 2Anisotropically Fatigue‐Resistant Hydrogels320 citations · 2021
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- 4Centrifugal multimaterial 3D printing of multifunctional heterogeneous objects214 citations · 2022
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- 9Two-photon polymerization-based 4D printing and its applications86 citations · 2023
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