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44
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1102

Overview

Zhigang Wu is affiliated with Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. Their primary field of study is Engineering, with a focus on several subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their research covers a range of main topics that include:

  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Soft Robotics and Applications
  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning

Recent papers authored by Zhigang Wu reflect a concentration on biomaterials, robotics, and advanced systems technologies. Notable publications include:

  • "Electrical stimulation of piezoelectric BaTiO3 coated Ti6Al4V scaffolds promotes anti-inflammatory polarization of macrophages and bone repair via MAPK/JNK inhibition and OXPHOS activation" (2022, Biomaterials)
  • "Skin-electrode iontronic interface for mechanosensing" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Intelligent Soft Surgical Robots for Next-Generation Minimally Invasive Surgery" (2021, Advanced Intelligent Systems)
  • "High-throughput fabrication of soft magneto-origami machines" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "Programmable and reprocessable multifunctional elastomeric sheets for soft origami robots" (2021, Science Robotics)

Zhigang Wu frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Zhiping Chai
  • Han Ding
  • Jiaqi Zhu
  • Xingxing Ke
  • Qin Jiang

Their work has appeared repeatedly in key publication venues such as:

  • Advanced Materials Technologies
  • Advanced Intelligent Systems
  • Soft Robotics
  • Nature Communications
  • Buildings

Best Publications

  • Micromixers?a review

    Nam-Trung Nguyen;Zhigang Wu

  • Origin of morphotropic phase boundaries in ferroelectrics

    Muhtar Ahart;Maddury Somayazulu;R. E. Cohen;P. Ganesh

  • A Highly Sensitive Flexible Capacitive Tactile Sensor with Sparse and High-Aspect-Ratio Microstructures

    Yongbiao Wan;Yongbiao Wan;Zhiguang Qiu;Ying Hong;Ying Hong;Yan Wang;Yan Wang

  • Pressure-induced anomalous phase transitions and colossal enhancement of piezoelectricity in PbTiO3.

    Zhigang Wu;Ronald E. Cohen

  • PDMS-Based Elastomer Tuned Soft, Stretchable, and Sticky for epidermal electronics

    Seung Hee Jeong;Shuo Zhang;Klas Hjort;Jöns Hilborn

  • Soft inertial microfluidics for high throughput separation of bacteria from human blood cells

    Zhigang Wu;Ben Willing;Joakim Bjerketorp;Janet K. Jansson;Janet K. Jansson

  • Hard superconducting nitrides.

    Xiao-Jia Chen;Viktor V. Struzhkin;Zhigang Wu;Maddury Somayazulu

  • Ionic Skin with Biomimetic Dielectric Layer Templated from Calathea Zebrine Leaf

    Zhiguang Qiu;Yongbiao Wan;Yongbiao Wan;Wohua Zhou;Jingyi Yang

  • Liquid metal stretchable unbalanced loop antenna

    Shi Cheng;Anders Rydberg;Klas Hjort;Zhigang Wu

  • Microfluidic electronics

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  • Trends in elasticity and electronic structure of transition-metal nitrides and carbides from first principles

    Zhigang Wu;Xiao-Jia Chen;Viktor V. Struzhkin;Ronald E. Cohen

  • Liquid alloy printing of microfluidic stretchable electronics

    Seung Hee Jeong;Anton Hagman;Klas Hjort;Magnus Jobs

  • Natural Plant Materials as Dielectric Layer for Highly Sensitive Flexible Electronic Skin

    Yongbiao Wan;Yongbiao Wan;Zhiguang Qiu;Jun Huang;Jun Huang;Jingyi Yang

  • A Microfluidic, Reversibly Stretchable, Large‐Area Wireless Strain Sensor

    Shi Cheng;Zhigang Wu

  • Origin of the Variation of Exciton Binding Energy in Semiconductors

    Marc Dvorak;Su-Huai Wei;Zhigang Wu

  • Foldable and Stretchable Liquid Metal Planar Inverted Cone Antenna

    Shi Cheng;Zhigang Wu;P. Hallbjorner;K. Hjort

  • Microfluidic stretchable RF electronics

    Shi Cheng;Zhigang Wu

  • Skin-electrode iontronic interface for mechanosensing.

    Pang Zhu;Huifeng Du;Xingyu Hou;Peng Lu

  • Mechanically Stretchable and Electrically Insulating Thermal Elastomer Composite by Liquid Alloy Droplet Embedment

    Seung Hee Jeong;Si Chen;Jinxing Huo;Erik Kristofer Gamstedt

  • Nonlinear diffusive mixing in microchannels: theory and experiments

    Zhigang Wu;Nam-Trung Nguyen;Xiaoyang Huang

  • Tape Transfer Atomization Patterning of Liquid Alloys for Microfluidic Stretchable Wireless Power Transfer

    Seung Hee Jeong;Klas Hjort;Zhigang Wu

  • Charge separation via strain in silicon nanowires.

    Zhigang Wu;J. B. Neaton;Jeffrey C. Grossman

  • Thermal, Waterproof, Breathable, and Antibacterial Cloth with a Nanoporous Structure.

    Qingxian Liu;Jun Huang;Jianming Zhang;Ying Hong

  • Hydrodynamic focusing in microchannels under consideration of diffusive dispersion: theories and experiments

    Zhigang Wu;Nam-Trung Nguyen

  • High-Fidelity Conformal Printing of 3D Liquid Alloy Circuits for Soft Electronics.

    Shuo Zhang;Bei Wang;Bei Wang;Jiajun Jiang;Kang Wu

  • Intelligent Soft Surgical Robots for Next-Generation Minimally Invasive Surgery

    Jiaqi Zhu;Liangxiong Lyu;Yi Xu;Huageng Liang

Frequent Co-Authors

Klas Hjort
Klas Hjort Uppsala University
Chuan Fei Guo
Chuan Fei Guo Southern University of Science and Technology
Nam-Trung Nguyen
Nam-Trung Nguyen Griffith University
Peng George Wang
Peng George Wang Georgia State University
Robin H. A. Ras
Robin H. A. Ras Aalto University
Johan Liu
Johan Liu Chalmers University of Technology
Wei Hong
Wei Hong Southern University of Science and Technology
Jöns Hilborn
Jöns Hilborn Uppsala University
Kebin Liu
Kebin Liu Augusta University
Xi Chen
Xi Chen University of California, Davis

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