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Wearable bioadhesive ultrasound shear wave elastography
[Click for Paper, MIT News]

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Bioadhesive ultrasound for long-term continuous imaging of diverse organs
[Click for Paper, Science Perspective, MIT News, MIT Spotlight, Summary Video]

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3D printable high-performance conducting polymer hydrogel for all-hydrogel bioelectronic interfaces
[Click for Paper, MIT News]

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Fatigue-resistant hydrogel optical fibers enable peripheral nerve optogenetics during locomotion
[Click for Paper, MIT News]

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Telerobotic neurovascular interventions with magnetic manipulations
[Click for Paper, MIT News, Summary Video, Supporting Movies]

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An off-the-shelf bioadhesive patch for sutureless repair of gastrointestinal defects [Click for Paper, MIT News]

151

A soft neuroprosthetic hand providing simultaneous myoelectric control and tactile feedback [Click for Paper, MIT News, MIT Spotlight]

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Soft Materials by Design: Unconventional Polymer Networks Give Extreme Properties [Click for Paper]

137

Electrical bioadhesive interface for bioelectronics [Click for Paper, Behind the paper]

130

Designing complex architectured materials with machine learning [Click for Paper]

129

3D printing of conductive polymers [Click for Paper, MIT News]
Robust coatings of wet conducting polymers [Click for Paper, MIT News, Video]

127

Fatigue-resistant adhesion of hydrogels [Click for Paper]

121

Ferromagnetic soft continuum robots
[Click for Paper, MIT news, Nature Highlights]

115

Dry double-sided tape for adhesion of wet tissues and devices [Click for Paper, MIT news, STM Editor's Choice]

118

Muscle-like fatigue-resistant hydrogels by mechanical training
[Click for paper and MIT news]

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Anti-fatigue-fracture hydrogels
[Click for paper]

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Pure PEDOT:PSS hydrogels
[Click for paper, story]

WechatIMG453

Ingestible hydrogel device
[Click for story, paper, video]

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Hydrogel skins for medical devices
[Click for paper]

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Review on hydrogel bioelectronics
[Click for paper]

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3D printing ferromagnetic domains for fast untethered soft robots
[Click for paper, news, video]

MIT-Kirigami-Film_0-2

Kirigami enhances adhesion
[Click for paper, news]

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Mechanically-guided artificial mucosa
[Click for paper]

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3D printing living responsive materials and devices
[Click for paper, news, video]

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New 3D printing method by harnessing instabilities
[Click for paper, news, video]

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Stretchable living materials and devices
[Click for paper, news]

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Hydraulic hydrogel actuators and robots
[Click for paper, news, video]

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Robust hydrogel-elastomer hybrids
[Click for paper, news, video]

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Tough bonding of hydrogels
[Click for paper, news, video]

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Fringe and fingering instabilities of soft materials
[Click for paper]

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Stretchable hydrogel optical fiber
[Click for paper, news]

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Stretchable hydrogel electronics and devices
[Click for paper, news, video]

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Cephalopod-inspired camouflage skin
[Click for paper, news, video]

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Crumpling and unfolding of large-area graphene
[Click for paper]

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Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels
[Click for paper]

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Mission

The mission of Zhao Lab at MIT is to advance science and technology between humans and machines for addressing grand societal challenges in health and sustainability. We are a highly interdisciplinary research group with expertise in mechanics, materials, and biotechnology. A major focus of our current research is the study and development of soft materials and systems. Please refer to Representative Papers and Review Papers for an overview of our research; Selected Papers and All Papers for more details; Google Scholar and ResearchID for citations of our papers; Images for artistic works based on our research. Please refer to MIT MechE website for Prof. Zhao's bio-sketch and MIT Technology Review for Zhao Lab work's impact.

Feb 2024: Hsiao-Chuan, Xiaoyu, and Chonghe and collaborators’ paper Wearable bioadhesive ultrasound shear wave elastography was published in Science Advances. MIT News. MIT Spotlight.

Dec 2023: Prof. Zhao was selected as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher 2023. Congratulations!

Oct 2023: Xinyue, Shaoting, and collaborators’ paper on Fatigue-resistant hydrogel optical fibers enable peripheral nerve optogenetics during locomotion was published in Nature Methods. Nature Methods HighlightMIT News.

June 2023: SanaHeal a startup company based on the bioadhesive technology developed in Zhao Lab won the 2023 Nature Spinoff Prize. Nature outlook about SanaHeal. Nature paper on bioadhesive technology.

June 2023: Tao, Hyunwoo, Jingjing, Heejung, and collaborators’ paper on 3D printable high-performance conducting polymer hydrogel for all-hydrogel bioelectronic interfaces was published in Nature Materials.  Nature Materials PerspectiveMIT News.

Nov 2022: TIME Best Invention of 2022 selected our invention of bioadhesive ultrasound capable of long-term continuous imaging of deep organs. Congratulations!

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