I. Mechanics of Soft Materials
We aim to understand the underlying mechanics, physics, and chemistry of emerging soft materials such as hydrogels and functional elastomers and develop soft structures and devices with unprecedented properties and advanced functions.
Development of liquid-free ionic conductive elastomers
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Failure, deformation and instability mechanism of hydrogels
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Constitutive models for hydrogels
JMPS (2020)
JMPS (2020)
II. Mechanics of Flexible Structures
III. Mechanics of Soft Devices
Our research is focused on the chemo-mechanical coupling in battery electrode materials, as well as the mechanics-aided development of novel electrode structures and electrochemically-driven devices.