Xuanhe Zhao Archives - cee.mit.edu

Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao developed flexible, magnetic, 3-D structures

June 15, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with a wave of a magnet and can crawl, roll, jump, and snap together. A potential application of the technology is to use […]

Professor Xuanhe Zhao creates “living tattoo” that responds to the environment

December 5, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor of CEE and Mechanical Engineering Xuanhe Zhao, in collaboration with Professor of EECS and Biological Engineering Timothy Lu, created a “living tattoo” made of genetically programmed living cells that can respond to environmental chemicals and […]

Professor Xuanhe Zhao designs smooth gel coating for medical materials

July 18, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao recently designed a new soft and slippery yet tough coating that can be applied to plastic and rubber materials such as surgical tubing. The coating makes medical […]

Professor Xuanhe Zhao and team of researchers create athletic suit that responds to sweat

May 19, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Associate Professor of CEE and MechE Xuanhe Zhao and a team of researchers recently developed a workout suit that responds to heat and sweat. The suit is made of live microbial cells that open and close […]

Professor Xuanhe Zhao granted tenure

May 12, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Xuanhe Zhao, Associate Professor of CEE and MechE, was recently granted tenure. Zhao’s research involves solid mechanics, soft materials and bioinspired design. He is one of 12 newly tenured professors in the School of Engineering. More […]

Professor Xuanhe Zhao creates living wearable sensors that light up in response to chemicals

February 15, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Associate Professor of CEE and Mechanical Engineering Xuanhe Zhao created wearable sensors that light up in the presence of certain chemicals. The sensors are made of sheets of hydrogel and contain live cells. They can detect […]

Professor Xuanhe Zhao creates hydrogel robots

February 1, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Associate Professor of CEE and Mechanical Engineering Xuanhe Zhao and Mechanical Engineering graduate student Hyunwoo Yuk have created gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in and out of them. The robots are almost invisible […]

Xuanhe Zhao receives 2015 Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young Investigator Award

December 7, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

On Dec. 2 at the 2015 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Professor Xuanhe Zhao was named the recipient of the 2015 Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young Investigator Award for a paper entitled, “Predicting fracture energies and […]

Stretchable hydrogel electronics

December 7, 2015 | 2015 News Releases | ceemit

MIT News Office Water-based “Band-Aid” senses temperature, lights up, and delivers medicine to the skin. MIT engineers have designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that can incorporate […]

Hydrogel superglue is 90 percent water

November 10, 2015 | 2015 News Releases | ceemit

MIT News Office New “water adhesive” is tougher than natural adhesives employed by mussels and barnacles. Nature has developed innovative ways to solve a sticky challenge: Mussels and barnacles stubbornly glue themselves to cliff faces, ship […]

Xuanhe Zhao and the 3D printing of robust hydrogels

August 4, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

When it comes to synthetic hydrogels, finding the perfect mixture of toughness and ease of fabrication has been elusive. In a paper by CEE Professor Xuanhe Zhao and published on the cover of Advanced Materials, the […]

Tough biogel structures produced by 3-D printing

June 1, 2015 | 2015 News Releases | ceemit

MIT News Office Stretchable, biocompatible hydrogels with complex patterning could be used in tissue engineering. Researchers have developed a new way of making tough — but soft and wet — biocompatible materials, called “hydrogels,” into complex […]

Research from CEE Unfolds the “Why of Wrinkles”

March 13, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Why exactly do skin and other layered materials form a pattern such as wrinkle, crease, fold and delaminated buckle from time to time? A team of MIT researchers led by CEE Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao ventured […]

How to Hide Like an Octopus

September 29, 2014 | 2014 News in Brief | ceemit

Cephalopods such as octopuses and squid can quickly change both the color and texture of their skin to blend into their surroundings, a capability that engineers have long struggled to duplicate in synthetic materials. In a […]

Zhao Appointed as Joint Faculty in CEE

September 29, 2014 | 2014 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Xuanhe Zhao now holds a joint appointment with CEE and Mechanical Engineering, where he is advancing fundamental knowledge of interfaces between solid mechanics, soft materials, and bioinspired design. His research goals include understanding and designing […]