Air-Permeable Hydrogels Published in Nature

We are excited to share that our paper, “Air-permeable hydrogels through viscoelastic phase separation of aerogels,” has been published in Nature! The work introduces a viscoelastic phase separation strategy to create highly air-permeable, water-rich hydrogels.

Congratulations to our PhD student Haodong Hu and undergraduate summer scholar Gabriella Carreira for their contributions as co-authors!

Read the paper in Nature

Soft Responsive Materials Laboratory (SRM-Lab)

My research focuses on developing new stimuli-responsive polymeric microstructured surfaces and microactuators—leveraging fundamental principles of polymer science, chemical synthesis, mechanics, and advanced nano/microfabrication techniques—for applications in miniaturized soft robotics as well as optical and mechanical meta-devices.