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Shengqiang Cai is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research contributions span the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a significant focus on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's work covers various subfields including Materials Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. Their main research topics include Advanced Materials and Mechanics, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions, and Polymer composites and self-healing. Additional areas of focus are Dielectric materials and actuators, Elasticity and Material Modeling, and Liquid Crystal Research Advancements.

Among their recent notable papers are:

  • "A wearable cardiac ultrasound imager" (2023) published in Nature
  • "Electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator" (2021) published in Science Robotics
  • "Three-dimensional printing of functionally graded liquid crystal elastomer" (2020) published in Science Advances
  • "Discontinuous fibrous Bouligand architecture enabling formidable fracture resistance with crack orientation insensitivity" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Cavitation in soft matter" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Shengqiang Cai frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Chenghai Li
  • Zhaoqiang Song
  • Qiguang He
  • Zhijian Wang
  • Yang Wang

Their publications often appear in certain scientific venues, with multiple works featured in:

  • Extreme Mechanics Letters
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Science Advances
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Best Publications

  • Electrically controlled liquid crystal elastomer–based soft tubular actuator with multimodal actuation

    Qiguang He;Zhijian Wang;Yang Wang;Adriane Minori

  • A theory of constrained swelling of a pH-sensitive hydrogel†‡

    Romain Marcombe;Romain Marcombe;Shengqiang Cai;Wei Hong;Xuanhe Zhao

  • Electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator.

    Qiguang He;Zhijian Wang;Yang Wang;Zijun Wang

  • Periodic patterns and energy states of buckled films on compliant substrates

    Shengqiang Cai;Derek Breid;Alfred J. Crosby;Zhigang Suo

  • Mechanics and chemical thermodynamics of phase transition in temperature-sensitive hydrogels

    Shengqiang Cai;Zhigang Suo

  • Large Plastic Deformation in High-Capacity Lithium-Ion Batteries Caused by Charge and Discharge

    Kejie Zhao;Matt Pharr;Shengqiang Cai;Joost J. Vlassak

  • Translucent soft robots driven by frameless fluid electrode dielectric elastomer actuators.

    Caleb Christianson;Nathaniel N. Goldberg;Dimitri D. Deheyn;Shengqiang Cai

  • Model of dissipative dielectric elastomers

    Choon Chiang Foo;Shengqiang Cai;Soo Jin Adrian Koh;Siegfried Bauer

  • Poroelastic swelling kinetics of thin hydrogel layers: comparison of theory and experiment

    Jinhwan Yoon;Shengqiang Cai;Zhigang Suo;Ryan C. Hayward

  • Reprogrammable, Reprocessible, and Self-Healable Liquid Crystal Elastomer with Exchangeable Disulfide Bonds

    Zhijian Wang;Hongmiao Tian;Qiguang He;Shengqiang Cai

  • Resonant behavior of a membrane of a dielectric elastomer

    Jian Zhu;Shengqiang Cai;Zhigang Suo

  • Three-dimensional printing of functionally graded liquid crystal elastomer.

    Zijun Wang;Zhijian Wang;Yue Zheng;Qiguang He

  • A Light-Powered Ultralight Tensegrity Robot with High Deformability and Load Capacity.

    Zhijian Wang;Kai Li;Kai Li;Qiguang He;Shengqiang Cai

  • Bioinspired Design of Light-Powered Crawling, Squeezing, and Jumping Untethered Soft Robot

    Chihyung Ahn;Xudong Liang;Shengqiang Cai

  • Nonlinear oscillation of a dielectric elastomer balloon

    Jian Zhu;Shengqiang Cai;Zhigang Suo

  • Polydopamine-Coated Main-Chain Liquid Crystal Elastomer as Optically Driven Artificial Muscle.

    Hongmiao Tian;Zhijian Wang;Yilong Chen;Jinyou Shao

  • Light or Thermally Powered Autonomous Rolling of an Elastomer Rod.

    Chihyung Ahn;Kai Li;Kai Li;Shengqiang Cai

  • High stretchability, strength, and toughness of living cells enabled by hyperelastic vimentin intermediate filaments.

    Jiliang Hu;Yiwei Li;Yukun Hao;Tianqi Zheng

  • Creasing instability of elastomer films

    Shengqiang Cai;Dayong Chen;Zhigang Suo;Ryan C. Hayward

  • Discontinuous fibrous Bouligand architecture enabling formidable fracture resistance with crack orientation insensitivity

    Kaijin Wu;Zhaoqiang Song;Shuaishuai Zhang;Yong Ni

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhigang Suo
Zhigang Suo Harvard University
Alfred J. Crosby
Alfred J. Crosby University of Massachusetts Amherst
Michael T. Tolley
Michael T. Tolley University of California, San Diego
Renkun Chen
Renkun Chen University of California, San Diego
Ryan C. Hayward
Ryan C. Hayward University of Colorado Boulder
Kang L. Wang
Kang L. Wang University of California, Los Angeles
Alexander A. Balandin
Alexander A. Balandin University of California, Los Angeles
Gregory N. Tew
Gregory N. Tew University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jinsong Leng
Jinsong Leng Harbin Institute of Technology

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