Qingliang Liao

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Qingliang Liao is a pioneering researcher at the forefront of flexible electronics, wearable sensing systems, and energy harvesting technologies. His work spans self-powered electronic skin, triboelectric nanogenerators, and intelligent human-robot interaction, establishing him as a leading figure in next-generation smart sensing materials and devices. Liao's most celebrated contribution — a pencil-drawn, graphite-based flexible strain sensor (2015, 510 citations) — demonstrated an elegantly low-cost approach to fabricating highly sensitive wearable devices for health monitoring and robotics. Building on this foundation, his 2016 work on conductive-liquid-based stretchable energy harvesters (328 citations) addressed a critical challenge in deformable electronics by enabling self-powered, shape-adaptive biomechanical monitoring. His prolific development of triboelectric and piezoelectric sensing platforms has yielded breakthroughs in electronic skin capable of pressure mapping, texture recognition, and motion tracking with remarkable precision. More recently, Liao has pushed toward embodied intelligence, developing self-healing e-skins, alterable robotic skins, and programmable haptic feedback systems that bridge human perception and machine cognition. With cumulative citations exceeding 1,700 across his top works, his research continues to shape the trajectory of soft robotics, autonomous sensing, and intelligent wearable systems.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Flexible and Highly Sensitive Strain Sensors Fabricated by Pencil Drawn for Wearable Monitor

   510 citations · 2015
2. 2
   A highly shape-adaptive, stretchable design based on conductive liquid for energy harvesting and self-powered biomechanical monitoring

   328 citations · 2016
3. 3
   Self‐Powered Trajectory, Velocity, and Acceleration Tracking of a Moving Object/Body using a Triboelectric Sensor

   193 citations · 2014
4. 4
   Self-powered artificial electronic skin for high-resolution pressure sensing

   144 citations · 2017
5. 5
   Highly Robust and Self-Powered Electronic Skin Based on Tough Conductive Self-Healing Elastomer

   136 citations · 2020
6. 6
   Self-powered flexible antibacterial tactile sensor based on triboelectric-piezoelectric-pyroelectric multi-effect coupling mechanism

   119 citations · 2019
7. 7
   Fingerprint-inspired electronic skin based on triboelectric nanogenerator for fine texture recognition

   118 citations · 2021
8. 8
   A stretching-insensitive, self-powered and wearable pressure sensor

   77 citations · 2021
9. 9
   Alterable Robotic Skin Using Material Gene Expression Modulation

   40 citations · 2024
10. 10
    Highly Programmable Haptic Decoding and Self‐Adaptive Spatiotemporal Feedback Toward Embodied Intelligence

    35 citations · 2025

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