Soft Intelligent Materials for Biomedical Applications

Jianfeng Zang1,2*

1School of Integrated Circuits and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

2The State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

*Corresponding author: E-mail: jfzang@hust.edu.cn

Abstract

Soft materials are natural or synthetic materials such as hydrogels, colloids, elastomers, and biological tissues, as well as their composite materials. Soft materials can generate mechanical deformation when subjected to external stimuli like optics, acoustics, mechanics, electric field, magnetic field, and etc., resulting in new properties or functions. This talk will summary our recent works on soft materials and the biomedical applications (Fig. 1), including soft metamaterials for acoustics [1-3], bioinspired soft elastic metamaterials for reconstruction of natural hearing [4], magnetic soft robot for minimally invasively bioprinting [5], magnetic soft robot bladder assisted urination [6], and other applications.

References should be sorted in alphabetical order as shown below, where [1] exemplifies the case of a textbook, while [2] is an article in a journal and [3] is an article in conference proceedings.

References

[1] Shuaifeng Li, Degang Zhao, Hao Niu, Xuefeng Zhu,  Jianfeng Zang*, Observation of elastic topological states in soft materials, Nature Communications,  2018, 9, 1370.

[2] Hanchuan Tang, Zesi Chen, Ni Tang, Shuaifeng Li, Yaxi Shen, Yugui Peng, Xuefeng Zhu*, and Jianfeng Zang*, Hollow-out patterning ultrathin acoustic metasurfaces for multi-functionalities using soft fiber/rigid bead networks, Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, 1801127.

[3] Hanchuan Tang, Zhuoqun Hao, Ying Liu, Ye Tian, Hao Niu, Jianfeng Zang*, Soft and disordered hyperuniform elastic metamaterials for highly efficient vibration concentration, National Science Review, 2022, 9, nwab133.

[4] Hanchuan Tang, Shujie Zhang, Ye Tian, Tianyu Kang, Cheng Zhou, Shuaikang Yang, Ying Liu, Xurui Liu, Qicai Chen, Hongjun Xiao*, Wei Chen*, Jianfeng Zang*, Bioinspired Soft Elastic Metamaterials for Reconstruction of Natural Hearing, Advanced Science, 2023,10, 2207273.

[5] Cheng Zhou, Youzhou Yang, Jiaxin Wang, Qingyang Wu, Zhuozhi Gu, Yuting Zhou, Xurui Liu, Yueying Yang, Hanchuan Tang, Qing Ling, Liu Wang*, Jianfeng Zang*, Ferromagnetic soft catheter robots for minimally invasive bioprinting, Nature Communications, 2021, 12:5072.

[6] Youzhou Yang, Jiaxin Wang, Liu Wang, Qingyang Wu, Le Ling, Yueying Yang, Shan Ning, Yan Xie, Quanliang Cao, Liang Li, Jihong Liu*, Qing Ling*, Jianfeng Zang*, Magnetic Soft Robotic Bladder for Assisted Urination, Science Advances, 2022, 8, eabq1456.