SAMs Lab research

Tough bonding of hydrogels to diverse non-porous surfaces

Hyunwoo Yuk, Teng Zhang,Shaoting Lin, German Alberto Parada & Xuanhe Zhao

Nature Materials (2015) doi:10.1038/nmat4463

Sungmin Hong, Dalton Sycks, Hon Fai Chan, Shaoting Lin, Gabriel P. Lopez, Farshid Guilak, Kam W. Leong, Xuanhe Zhao, Advanced Materials, 27, 4035-4040, 2015. 

Cephalopod-inspired Design of Electro-mechano-chemically Responsive Elastomers for On-demand Fluorescent Patterning

Qiming Wang, Gregory R. Gossweiler, Stephen L. Craig*, Xuanhe Zhao*

Shaoting Lin, Changyong Cao, Qiming Wang, Mark Gonzalez, John E. Dolbow, Xuanhe Zhao

Creasing-Wrinkling Transition in Elastomer Films under Electric Fields

Qiming Wang and Xuanhe Zhao

Phase Diagrams of Instabilities in Compressed Film-Substrate Systems

Qiming Wang and Xuanhe Zhao

Phanindhar Shivapooja†, Qiming Wang†, Beatriz Orihuela, Daniel Rittschof, and Gabriel P. López, Xuanhe Zhao

† Equal contribution

gabriel.lopez [at] duke.edu

Electromechanical instabilities of thermoplastics: Theory and in situ observation

Qiming Wang, Xiaofan Niu, Qibing Pei, Michael Dickey, Xuanhe Zhao*

Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 141911 (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4757867

• Jeong-Yun Sun, Xuanhe Zhao, Widusha R.K. Illeperuma, Kyu Hwan Oh, David J. Mooney, Joost J. Vlassak, Zhigang Suo. Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels. Nature 489, 133-136 (2012).
• Watch movie on stretchy and tough gels
• Suplementary Information and Movies
• Nature News and Views, A hard concept in soft matter, by Kenneth R. Shull.

Dynamic Electrostatic Lithography: Multiscale On-demand Patterning on Large-Area Curved Surfaces

Qiming Wang, Mukarram Tahir, Jianfeng Zang, and Xuanhe Zhao*

 Advanced Materials, In press