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Zhigang Suo

Researcher at Harvard University

Publications -  538
Citations -  66286

Zhigang Suo is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Self-healing hydrogels & Dielectric. The author has an hindex of 124, co-authored 510 publications receiving 56487 citations. Previous affiliations of Zhigang Suo include Brown University & Hansung University.

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Forces that Drive Nanoscale Self-assembly on Solid Surfaces

TL;DR: In this paper, a model that accounts for the self-assembly behavior of a two-component monolayer grown on a solid surface is presented, where the phase boundary energy drives phase coarsening and the concentration-dependent surface stress drives phase refining.
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A Lesson from Plants: High-Speed Soft Robotic Actuators.

TL;DR: A soft balloon actuator is presented, which is inspired by such mechanical instabilities and creates safe, giant, and fast deformations and can help pave the way for applications ranging from haptic displays to soft grippers and high‐speed sorting machines.
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Indentation: A simple, nondestructive method for characterizing the mechanical and transport properties of pH-sensitive hydrogels

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used instrumented indentation to characterize the mechanical and transport behavior of a pH-sensitive hydrogel in various aqueous buffer solutions, and they demonstrated the utility of indentation techniques in the characterization of pH sensitive hydrogels.
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Polyacrylamide hydrogels. II. elastic dissipater

TL;DR: In this paper, a polyacrylamide hydrogel of various thicknesses, and record the steady peel forces were analyzed and shown to be a potent toughening mechanism.
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Dielectric elastomers of interpenetrating networks

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a model of interpenetrating networks of long and short chains, where the network with long chains fills the space and keeps elastomer complaint at small to modest deformation.