Journal Publications

* indicates the corresponding author(s)
45.
Sarah J. Wu, Jingjing Wu, Heejung Roh, Ruth D. Shiferaw, Hyunwoo Yuk*, Xuanhe Zhao*, TBD, under review (2023)
44.​
Jue Deng#*, Jingjing Wu#, Xiaoyu Chen, Tiffany L. Sarrafian, Claudia E. Varela, William Whyte, Chuan Fei Guo, Ellen T. Roche, Leigh Griffiths, Hyunwoo Yuk*, Christoph S. Nabzdyk*, Xuanhe Zhao*, TBD, Science Translational Medicine, in revision (2023) [# equally contributing first authors]
43.
Jingjing Wu, Jue Deng, Georgios Theocharidis, Roderick Bronson, Hyunwoo Yuk*,​ Xuanhe Zhao*, TBD, Nature, in revision (2023)
42.
Tao Zhou, Hyunwoo Yuk*, TBD, Nature Electronics, in press (2023) [news & views] [PDF]
41.
Tao Zhou#, Hyunwoo Yuk#*, Faqi Hu, Jingjing Wu, Fajuan Tian, Heejung Roh, Zequn Shen, Guoying Gu, Jingkun Xu, Baoyang Lu*, Xuanhe Zhao*, 3D printable high performance conducting polymer hydrogel for all-hydrogel bioelectronic interfaces, Nature Materials, in press (2023) [# equally contributing first authors] [bioRxiv pre-print] [PDF+SI] [Video] [Behind the paper] [covered in MIT News]
40.
Di Wang, Sushila Maharjan, Xiao Kuang, Zixuan Wang, Luis S. Mille, Ming Tao, Peng Yu, Xia Cao, Liming Lian, Li Lv, Jacqueline Jialu He, Guosheng Tang, Hyunwoo Yuk, C. Keith Ozaki*, Xuanhe Zhao*, Yu Shrike Zhang*, Microfluidic bioprinting of tough hydrogel-based vascular conduits for functional blood vessels, Science Advances 8​, eabq6900 (2022) [PDF+SI]
39.
Hyunwoo Yuk*, Jingjing Wu, Xuanhe Zhao*, Hydrogel interfaces for merging humans and machines, Nature Reviews Materials 7, 935–952 (2022) [review] [PDF]
38.
Kyungseo Park, Hyunwoo Yuk, Min Jin Yang, Junhwi Cho, Hyosang Lee, Jung Kim*, A biomimetic elastomeric robot skin using electrical impedance and acoustic tomography for tactile sensing, Science Robotics 7, eabm7187 (2022) [PDF+SI]
37.
Georgios Theocharidis#, Hyunwoo Yuk#*, Heejung Roh#, Liu Wang#, Ikram Mezghani, Jingjing Wu, Antonios Kafanas, Mauricio Contreras, Brandon Sumpio, Zhuqing Li, Enya Wang, Lihong Chen, Chuan Fei Guo, Navin Jayaswal, Xanthi-Leda Katopodi, Nikolaos Kalavros, Christoph S. Nabzdyk, Ioannis S. Vlachos, Aristidis Veves*, Xuanhe Zhao*, A strain-programmed patch for the healing of diabetic wounds, Nature Biomedical Engineering 6​, 1118-1133 (2022) [# equally contributing first authors] [bioRxiv pre-print] [PDF+SI] [Video] [Behind the paper]
36.
Jingjing Wu#, Hyunwoo Yuk#*, Tiffany L. Sarrafian#, Leigh G. Griffiths*, Christoph S. Nabzdyk*, Xuanhe Zhao*, An off-the-shelf bioadhesive patch for sutureless repair of gastrointestinal defects, Science Translational Medicine 14, eabh2857 (2022) [# equally contributing first authors] [bioRxiv pre-print] [PDF+SI] [Video] [selected as cover art] [Nature Biomedical Engineering News & Views] [covered in MIT News, New Scientist]
35.
Anthony Tabet, Marc-Joseph Antonini, Atharva Sahasrabudhe, Jimin Park, Dekel Rosenfeld, Florian Koehler, Hyunwoo Yuk, Samuel Hason, Jordan Stinson, Melissa Stok, Xuanhe Zhao, Chun Wang, Polina Anikeeva*, Modular Integration of Hydrogel Neural Interfaces, ACS Central Science 7, 1516-1523 (2021) [PDF+SI]
34.
Hyunwoo Yuk*, Jingjing Wu, Tiffany L. Sarrafian, Xinyu Mao, Claudia E. Varela, Ellen T. Roche, Leigh G. Griffiths, Christoph S. Nabzdyk*, Xuanhe Zhao*, Rapid and coagulation-independent haemostatic sealing by a paste inspired by barnacle glue, Nature Biomedical Engineering 5, 1131-1142 (2021) [bioRxiv pre-print] [PDF+SI] [Video] [Behind the paper] [covered in MIT News, MIT Front Page, Mayo Clinic News, The Times, US News, World Economic Forum, c&en, WIRED, WIPO Magazine (PDF)]
33.
Seongjun Park#, Hyunwoo Yuk#, Ruike Zhao, Yeong Shin Yim, Eyob W. Woldeghebriel, Jeewoo Kang, Andres Canales, Yoel Fink, Gloria B. Choi, Xuanhe Zhao*, Polina Anikeeva*, Adaptive, multifunctional hydrogel hybrid probes for long-term sensing and modulation of neural activity, Nature Communications​ 12, 3435 (2021) [# equally contributing first authors] [PDF+SI]
32.
Tzu-Chieh Tang*, Elénore Tham, Xinyue Liu, Kevin Yell, Alexis J. Rovner, Hyunwoo Yuk, Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez, Farren J. Isaacs, Xuanhe Zhao*, Timothy K. Lu*, Hydrogel-based biocontainment of bacteria for continuous sensing and computation, Nature Chemical Biology 17, 724-731 (2021) [PDF+SI] [covered in MIT News]
31.
Xuanhe Zhao*, Xiaoyu Chen#, Hyunwoo Yuk#, Shaoting Lin#, Xinyue Liu, German Parada, Soft materials by design: Unconventional polymer networks give extreme properties, Chemical Reviews​ 212, 4309–4372 (2021) [# equally contributing authors] [review] [PDF] [selected as cover art]
30.
Sarah J. Wu#, Hyunwoo Yuk#*, Jingjing Wu, Christoph S. Nabzdyk, Xuanhe Zhao*, A Multifunctional origami patch for minimally invasive tissue sealing, Advanced Materials 33, 2007667 (2021) [# equally contributing first authors] [PDF+SI] [Video] [selected as cover art] [covered in MIT News, Mayo Clinic Discovery's Edge]
29.
William Pan*, Beverly Matsuda, Hyunwoo Yuk*, Biocompatible hydrogel ostomy adhesive, Medical Devices & Sensors 3, e10132 (2020) [PDF+SI]
28.
Jue Deng#, Hyunwoo Yuk#, Claudia E. Varela, Jingjing Wu, Xiaoyu Chen, Ellen T. Roche, Chuan Fei Guo*, Xuanhe Zhao*, Electrical bioadhesive interface for bioelectronics, Nature Materials 20, 229-236 (2021) [# equally contributing first authors]  [PDF+SI] [Video] [Behind the paper]
27.
Xiaoyu Chen#, Hyunwoo Yuk#, Jingjing Wu, Christoph S. Nabzdyk, Xuanhe Zhao*, Instant tough bioadhesive with triggerable benign detachment, Proceedings of National Academy of Science 117, 15497-15503 (2020) [# equally contributing first authors] [PDF+SI] [covered in MIT News, MIT Front Page, Tech Xplore, Medgadget, New Atlas, Popular Mechanics, Cosmos]
26.
Xinyu Mao, Hyunwoo Yuk, Xuanhe Zhao*, Hydration and swelling of dry polymers for wet adhesion, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 137, 103863 (2020) [PDF]
25.
Clara Park, Yiling Fan, Gregor Hager, Hyunwoo Yuk, Manisha Singh, Allison Rojas, Aamir Hameed, Mossab Saeed, Nikolay V. Vasilyev, Terry W. J. Steele, Xuanhe Zhao, Christopher T. Nguyen* and Ellen T. Roche*, An organosynthetic dynamic heart model with enhanced biomimicry guided by cardiac diffusion tensor imaging, Science Robotics 5, eaay9106 (2020) [PDF+SI] [covered in MIT News, MIT Front Page]
24.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Baoyang Lu, Shen Lin, Kai Qu, Jingkun Xu, Jian-hong Luo, Xuanhe Zhao*, 3D printing of conducting polymers, Nature Communications 11, 1604 (2020) [PDF+SI] [Video] [Behind the paper] [covered in MIT News, The Medical News, Tech Xplore, New Atlas, AZoNano, Medgadget, c&en, Being Patient, 3D Printing Industry]
23.
Akihisa Inoue#, Hyunwoo Yuk#, Baoyang Lu, Xuanhe Zhao*, Strong adhesion of wet conducting polymers on diverse substrates, Science Advances​ 6​, eaay5394 (2020) [# equally contributing first authors] [PDF+SI] [covered in MIT News, Phys.org, Science Daily]
22.
Hyunwoo Yuk,  Claudia E. Varela, Christoph S. Nabzdyk, Robert F. Padera, Ellen T. Roche, Xuanhe Zhao*, Dry double-sided tape for adhesion of wet tissues and devices, Nature 575, 169-174 (2019) [PDF+SI] [Video] [Behind the paper] [Science Translational Medicine Editor's Choice] [covered in MIT News, MIT Front Page, BBC, US News, CBS Boston, WebMD, HealthDay, Smithsonian Magazine, ScienceDaily, Health24, Medgadget]
21.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Baoyang Lu, Xuanhe Zhao*, Hydrogel bioelectronics, Chemical Society Reviews 48, 1642-1667 (2019) [review] [PDF]
20.
Xinyue Liu#, Christoph Steiger#, Shaoting Lin#, German A. Parada, Ji Liu, Hon Fai Chan, Hyunwoo Yuk, Nhi V. Phan, Joy Collins, Siddartha Tamang, Giovanni Traverso, Xuanhe Zhao*, Ingestible hydrogel device, Nature Communications 10, 493 (2019) [# equally contributing first authors] [PDF+SI] [covered in MIT News]
19.
Baoyang Lu#, Hyunwoo Yuk#, Shaoting Lin, Nannan Jian, Kai Qu, Jingkun Xu, Xuanhe Zhao*, Pure PEDOT:PSS hydrogels, Nature Communications 10, 1043 (2019) [# equally contributing first authors] [PDF+SI] [Behind the paper]
18.
Yan Yu#, Hyunwoo Yuk#, German A. Parada#, You Wu, Xinyue Liu, Christoph S. Nabzdyk, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Jianfeng Zang, Xuanhe Zhao*, Multifunctional hydrogel skins on diverse polymers with arbitrary shapes, Advanced Materials 31, 1807101 (2019) [# equally contributing first authors] [PDF+SI] [selected as cover art]
17.
Shaoting Lin#, Xinyue Liu#, Ji Liu#, Hyunwoo Yuk, Hyun-Chae Loh, German A. Parada, Charles Settens, Jake Song, Admir Masic, Gareth H. McKinley, Xuanhe Zhao*, Anti-fatigue-fracture hydrogels, Science Advances 5, eaau8528 (2019)  [# equally contributing first authors] [PDF+SI]
16.
Yonho Kim#, Hyunwoo Yuk#, Ruike Zhao#, Shawn Chester, Xuanhe Zhao*, Printing ferromagnetic domains for untethered fast-transforming soft materials, Nature​ 558, 274-279 (2018) [# equally contributing first authors] [PDF+SI] [Video] [selected as cover art] [Behind the paper] [covered in MIT News, MIT Front Page, London Science Museum, National Geographic, Forbes, BBC, NBC News, 동아사이언스]
15.
Ruike Zhao, Shaoting Lin, Hyunwoo Yuk, Xuanhe Zhao*, Kirigami enhanced film adhesion, Soft Matter 14, 2515-2525 (2018) [PDF+SI] [covered in MIT News, MIT Front Page]
14.
Xinyue Liu#, Hyunwoo Yuk#, Shaoting Lin, German A. Parada, Tzu-Chieh Tang, Eléonore Tham, César de la Fuente, Timothy K. Lu, Xuanhe Zhao*, 3D printing of living responsive materials and devices, Advanced Materials 30, 1704821 (2018)[# equally contributing first authors] [PDF+SI] [selected as cover art] [covered in MIT News, MIT Front Page, Engadget, Advanced Science News]
13.
Shaoting Lin, Yunwei Mao, Hyunwoo Yuk, Xuanhe Zhao*, Material-stiffening suppresses elastic fingering and fringe instabilities, International Journal of Solids and Structures 139​, 96-104 (2018) [PDF]
12.
German A. Parada, Hyunwoo Yuk, Xinyue Liu, Alex J. Hsieh, Xuanhe Zhao*, Impermeable robust hydrogels via hybrid lamination, Advanced Healthcare Materials 6, 1700520 (2017) [PDF+SI] [covered in MIT News, MIT Front Page]
10.
Xinyue Liu#, Tzu-Chieh Tang#, Eléonore Tham#, Hyunwoo Yuk#, Shaoting Lin, Timothy K. Lu*, Xuanhe Zhao*, Stretchable living materials and devices with hydrogel-elastomer hybrids hosting programmed cells, Proceedings of National Academy of Science 114, 2200-2205 (2017) [# equally contributing first authors] [PDF+SI] [covered in MIT News, Phys.org, Bioscience Technology, Gizmodo, Technology.org, World Economic Forum, NBC News]
9.
Teng Zhang#, Hyunwoo Yuk#, Shaoting Lin, Xuanhe Zhao*, Tough and tunable adhesion of hydrogels: experiments and models, ​Acta Mechanica Sinica 33​, 543-554 (2017) [# equally contributing first authors] [PDF]
8.
Shaoting Lin#, Tal Cohen#, Teng Zhang#, Hyunwoo Yuk, Rohan Abeyaratne, Xuanhe Zhao*, Fringe instability in constrained soft elastic layers, Soft Matter 12​, 8899-8906 (2016) [# equally contributing first authors] [PDF+SI]
7.
Jingjing Guo, Xinyue Liu, Nan Jiang, Ali K. Yetisen, Hyunwoo Yuk, Changxi Yang, Ali Khademhosseini, Xuanhe Zhao, Seok-Hyun Yun*, Highly stretchable, strain sensing hydrogel optical fibers, Advanced Materials 28​, 10244-10249 (2016) [PDF+SI] [covered in MIT News, MIT Front Page, Fox News]
6.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Shaoting Lin, Chu Ma, Mahdi Takaffoli, Nicholas X. Fang, Xuanhe Zhao*, Hydraulic hydrogel actuators and robots optically and sonically camouflaged in water, Nature Communications 8, 14230 (2017) [PDF+SI] [covered in MIT News, Fox News, R&D Magazine, Gizmodo, The Verge, ZDNet, Popular Science, IEEE Spectrum, The Science Times, 연합뉴스, YTN 사이언스, 동아일보, SBS]
5.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Teng Zhang, German Alberto Parada, Xinyue Liu, Xuanhe Zhao*, Skin-inspired hydrogel-elastomer hybrids with robust interfaces and functional microstructures, Nature Communications 7, 12028 (2016) [PDF+SI] [covered in MIT News, MIT Front Page, Boston Magazine, Bloomberg, CCTV]
4.
Shaoting Lin#, Hyunwoo Yuk#, Teng Zhang#, Hyunwoo Koo, Cunjiang Yu, Xuanhe Zhao*, Stretchable hydrogel electronics and devices, Advanced Materials 28, 4497–4505 (2016) [# equally contributing first authors] [PDF+SI] [covered in MIT News, MIT Front Page, NBC News, Boston Herald, MIT Technology Review, Smithsonian Magazine, Bloomberg, BBC]
3.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Teng Zhang, Shaoting Lin, German Alberto Parada, Xuanhe Zhao*, Tough bonding of hydrogels to diverse non-porous surfaces, Nature Materials 15, 190-196 (2016) [PDF+SI] [covered in MIT News, Forbes, Vice, Materials Today]
2.
Teng Zhang#, Shaoting Lin#, Hyunwoo Yuk, Xuanhe Zhao*, Predicting fracture energies and crack-tip fields of soft tough materials, Extreme Mechanics Letters 4, 1 (2015) [# equally contributing first authors] [PDF+SI]
1.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Daeyeon Kim, Honggu Lee, Sungho Jo*, Jennifer H. Shin*, Shape memory alloy-based small crawling robots inspired by C. elegans, ​Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 6, 046002 (2011) [PDF]

Conference Proceedings & Talks (Selected List)

8.
Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2022: Innovating for real-world solutions, USPTO, May 2022
7.
Soft Materials for Tough Problems in Human Health, Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar, Seoul National University, Jan 2022​
6.
Soft Materials for Biomedical Applications: Learning from Collaborative Journey, Korea-New England Science and Technology Collaboration Forum, NEBS and South Korea Consulate Boston, Oct 2021
5.
Soft Materials for Tough Problems: Hydrogel Technologies for Biomedical Applications, New England Bioscience Society (NEBS), July 2021
4.
Soft Materials for Tough Problems: Hydrogel Technologies for Biomedical Applications, Biomedical Engineering and Physiology (BMEP) Seminar, Mayo Clinic, April 2021
3.
Bedside-to-Bench-to-Bedside: Ongoing Journey on Bioadhesive Technology Translation, The Martlets Society, Feb 2021
2.
Soft materials for hard problems in human-machine interfacing, Mechanical Engineering Seminar, KAIST, Jul 2019
1.
Design and control of thermal SMA based small crawling robot mimicking C. elegans, 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 2010 [proceeding PDF]

Patents

16.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Xuanhe Zhao, Heejung Roh, Aristidis Veves, Georgios Theocharidis, Shape memory adhesive materials for diabetic wound healing, U.S. Application No. 63/148,901
15.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Heejung Roh, Xuanhe Zhao, Hydration-based shape memory adhesive materials and methods of making, U.S. Application No. 63/148,874
14.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Sarah Wu, Christoph S. Nabzdyk, Xuanhe Zhao, Bioadhesive materials and minimally invasive methods for adhering tissues with bioadhesive materials, US 2022/0110619
13.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Xiaoyu Chen, Xuanhe Zhao, Adhesive material with triggerable on-demand detachment, US 2021/0380848
12.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Xinyu Mao, Christoph Nabzdyk, Xuanhe Zhao, Body fluid resistant tissue adhesives, US 2021/0163797
11.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Xuanhe Zhao, Dry double-sided tape for instant tough bonding of wet tissues and devices, US 2020/0353120
10.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Akihisa Inoue, Xuanhe Zhao, Strong adhesion of conducting polymers on diverse substrates, US 2020/0377677
9.
 Hyunwoo Yuk, Baoyang Lu, Xuanhe Zhao, Pure PEDOT:PSS hydrogels with extraordinary electrical, mechanical, and swelling properties, US 2020/0299466
8.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Yoonho Kim, Xuanhe Zhao, Programmable soft materials containing ferromagnetic domains and methods of making, US 2020/0223099
7.
Xuanhe Zhao, Xinyue Liu, Shaoting Lin, German Parada, Hyunwoo Yuk, Fast-swelling, highly-swellable, robust hydrogel balloons, US 2021/0038871
5.
German Parada, Hyunwoo Yuk, Xuanhe Zhao, Tough hydrogel coating and method of manufacture, US 2019/0125934
4.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Xuanhe Zhao, Hydrogel-elastomer hybrids, US 2019/0070826
3.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Shaoting Lin, Teng Zhang, Xuanhe Zhao, Stretchable, robust and biocompatible hydrogel electronics and devices, US 2017/0136180
2.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Shaoting Lin, Teng Zhang, German Parada, Xuanhe Zhao, Multifunctional bonding of hydrogels, US 10954375
1.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Shaoting Lin, Xuanhe Zhao, Extremely compliant yet tough hydrogel systems as ultrasound transmission agents, US 9878506