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Xuanhe Zhao

Xuanhe Zhao

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
105
Citations
56449
World Ranking
43
National Ranking
24

Materials Science

D-Index
104
Citations
55418
World Ranking
864
National Ranking
287

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award

Overview

Xuanhe Zhao is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Engineering, with a particular focus on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biomaterials, and Molecular Medicine. Their research work spans multiple interdisciplinary areas linking materials science with biological and mechanical systems.

The scientist's research primarily addresses topics such as Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Hydrogels including their synthesis, properties, and applications, Micro and Nano Robotics, Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications, Advanced Materials and Mechanics, Soft Robotics and Applications, and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering.

Xuanhe Zhao has published papers in frequent collaboration with several researchers, including:

  • Hyunwoo Yuk (32 coauthored works)
  • Shaoting Lin (26 coauthored works)
  • Jingjing Wu (20 coauthored works)
  • Chase M. Hartquist (12 coauthored works)
  • Ellen T. Roche (11 coauthored works)

Their research has appeared repeatedly in well-known publication venues such as:

  • Nature Communications (8 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (8 publications)
  • Science Advances (7 publications)
  • Advanced Materials (6 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (5 publications)

Among recent papers published by Xuanhe Zhao are:

  • Soft Materials by Design: Unconventional Polymer Networks Give Extreme Properties, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • 3D printing of conducting polymers, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Hydrogel machines, 2020, Materials Today
  • Graded intrafillable architecture-based iontronic pressure sensor with ultra-broad-range high sensitivity, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Magnetic Soft Materials and Robots, 2022, Chemical Reviews

Best Publications

  • Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels

    Jeong-Yun Sun;Xuanhe Zhao;Widusha R. K. Illeperuma;Ovijit Chaudhuri

  • Printing ferromagnetic domains for untethered fast-transforming soft materials

    Yoonho Kim;Hyunwoo Yuk;Ruike Zhao;Shawn A. Chester

  • Hydrogel bioelectronics.

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  • Dry double-sided material for adhesion of wet tissues and devices

    Xuanhe Zhao;Hyunwoo Yuk

  • Multi-scale multi-mechanism design of tough hydrogels: building dissipation into stretchy networks

    Xuanhe Zhao

  • Hydrogel machines

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  • Ferromagnetic soft continuum robots

    Yoonho Kim;German A. Parada;Shengduo Liu;Xuanhe Zhao

  • A theory of coupled diffusion and large deformation in polymeric gels

    Wei Hong;Xuanhe Zhao;Jinxiong Zhou;Jinxiong Zhou;Zhigang Suo

  • Tough bonding of hydrogels to diverse non-porous surfaces

    Hyunwoo Yuk;Teng Zhang;Shaoting Lin;German Alberto Parada

  • Skin-inspired hydrogel-elastomer hybrids with robust interfaces and functional microstructures

    Hyunwoo Yuk;Teng Zhang;German Alberto Parada;Xinyue Liu

  • 3D Printing of Highly Stretchable and Tough Hydrogels into Complex, Cellularized Structures

    Sungmin Hong;Dalton Sycks;Hon Fai Chan;Shaoting Lin;Shaoting Lin

  • Hydraulic hydrogel actuators and robots optically and sonically camouflaged in water

    Hyunwoo Yuk;Shaoting Lin;Chu Ma;Mahdi Takaffoli

  • Soft Materials by Design: Unconventional Polymer Networks Give Extreme Properties.

    Xuanhe Zhao;Xiaoyu Chen;Hyunwoo Yuk;Shaoting Lin

  • Pure PEDOT:PSS hydrogels

    Baoyang Lu;Hyunwoo Yuk;Shaoting Lin;Nannan Jian

  • 3D printing of conducting polymers.

    Hyunwoo Yuk;Baoyang Lu;Baoyang Lu;Shen Lin;Kai Qu

  • Multifunctionality and control of the crumpling and unfolding of large-area graphene

    Jianfeng Zang;Seunghwa Ryu;Nicola Pugno;Qiming Wang

  • Magnetic Soft Materials and Robots.

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  • Graded intrafillable architecture-based iontronic pressure sensor with ultra-broad-range high sensitivity

    Ningning Bai;Liu Wang;Liu Wang;Qi Wang;Jue Deng;Jue Deng

  • Active scaffolds for on-demand drug and cell delivery

    David J. Mooney;Xuanhe Zhao

  • Stretchable Hydrogel Electronics and Devices.

    Shaoting Lin;Hyunwoo Yuk;Teng Zhang;German Alberto Parada

  • A nonlinear field theory of deformable dielectrics

    Zhigang Suo;Xuanhe Zhao;William H. Greene

  • Soft wall-climbing robots

    Guoying Gu;Jiang Zou;Ruike Zhao;Ruike Zhao;Xuanhe Zhao

  • Method to analyze electromechanical stability of dielectric elastomers

    Xuanhe Zhao;Zhigang Suo

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhigang Suo
Zhigang Suo Harvard University
Jianfeng Zang
Jianfeng Zang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Ruike Zhao
Ruike Zhao Stanford University
David J. Mooney
David J. Mooney Harvard University
Wei Hong
Wei Hong Southern University of Science and Technology
Kam W. Leong
Kam W. Leong Columbia University
Jinxiong Zhou
Jinxiong Zhou Xi'an Jiaotong University
Farshid Guilak
Farshid Guilak Washington University in St. Louis
Stephen L. Craig
Stephen L. Craig Duke University

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