Xiao‐Qiao Wang

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Xiao-Qiao Wang is a leading researcher at the intersection of soft robotics, functional hydrogels, and wearable electronics. His work is defined by pioneering the design and fabrication of biomimetic soft machines that integrate sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting. Wang’s major contributions include the development of direct-ink-write 3D printing for hydrogel-based soft robots (302 citations), enabling complex, biomimetic structures without restrictive mold-casting. He also created scalable thermoelectric fibers for textile electronics (219 citations), advancing self-powered wearables. His somatosensory, light-driven thin-film robots (181 citations) mimic reflex-driven natural intelligence, while his self-locked thermo-mechano feedback mechanism (177 citations) enables autonomous locomotion and electricity generation from waste heat. Wang further developed fast autonomous healing magnetic elastomers (128 citations) for instantly recoverable, modular soft robots, and macromolecule conformational shaping for polymorphic hydrogel fibers (90 citations). His recent work on structuring mechanically robust hydrogels for wearable and implantable applications (61 citations) underscores his impact. Wang’s innovations consistently push the boundaries of soft matter engineering, earning him recognition as a transformative figure in creating intelligent, adaptive, and sustainable soft robotic systems.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Direct-Ink-Write 3D Printing of Hydrogels into Biomimetic Soft Robots

   302 citations · 2019
2. 2
   Scalable thermoelectric fibers for multifunctional textile-electronics

   219 citations · 2020
3. 3
   Somatosensory, Light‐Driven, Thin‐Film Robots Capable of Integrated Perception and Motility

   181 citations · 2020
4. 4
   In-built thermo-mechanical cooperative feedback mechanism for self-propelled multimodal locomotion and electricity generation

   177 citations · 2018
5. 5
   A Fast Autonomous Healing Magnetic Elastomer for Instantly Recoverable, Modularly Programmable, and Thermorecyclable Soft Robots

   128 citations · 2021
6. 6
   Design of untethered soft material micromachine for life-like locomotion

   100 citations · 2022
7. 7
   Macromolecule conformational shaping for extreme mechanical programming of polymorphic hydrogel fibers

   90 citations · 2022
8. 8
   Structuring and Shaping of Mechanically Robust and Functional Hydrogels toward Wearable and Implantable Applications

   61 citations · 2024
9. 9
   Scalable thermoelectric fibers for multifunctional textile-electronics

   5 citations · 2020

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