Journal Publications (Full List)

Note
* indicates the corresponding author(s)
30.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Xuanhe Zhao*, TBD, Nature Reviews Materials, in preparation (2020) [review article]
29.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Xinyu Mao, Claudia E. Varela, Jingjing Wu, Xiaoyu Chen, Ellen T. Roche, Christoph S. Nabzdyk, Xuanhe Zhao*, TBD, Nature Biomedical Engineering, under review (2020)
28.
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]
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Jue Deng#, Hyunwoo Yuk#, Claudia E. Varela, Jingjing Wu, Xiaoyu Chen, Ellen T. Roche, Chuanfei Guo*, Xuanhe Zhao*, TBD, Nature Materials, in revision (2020) [# equally contributing first authors]
26.
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]
25.
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]
24.
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]
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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]
22.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Baoyang Lu, Xuanhe Zhao*, Hydrogel bioelectronics, Chemical Society Reviews 48, 1642-1667 (2019) [review article] [PDF]
21.
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]
20.
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]
19.
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]
18.
Seongjun Park#, Hyunwoo Yuk#, Ruike Zhao, Yeong Shin Yim, Eyob W. Woldeghebriel, Jeewoo Kang, Yoel Fink, Gloria B. Choi, Xuanhe Zhao*, Polina Anikeeva*, TBD, Nature Communications​, in revision (2019) [# equally contributing first authors]
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 & Presentations

22.
Novel bioadhesive technologies for instant & robust repair of tissues, 2020 Adhesion Society Annual Meeting, Charleston, USA, Feb 2020
21.
Next-generation bioadhesives: Mechanism and Applications, 2019 MRS Fall, Boston, USA, Dec 2019
20.
Dry double-sided tape for instant strong adhesion of wet tissues and devices, 2019 BMES Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, Oct 2019
19.
Preparation, adhesion, and 3D printing of highly conductive PEDOT:PSS hydrogels, 2019 MRS Spring, Phoenix, USA, Apr 2019
18.
Instant strong adhesion of wet tissues and devices, 2019 Adhesion Society Annual Meeting, Hilton Head, USA, Feb 2019
17.
Robust hydrogel-solid hybrids for biomedical applications, 2018 MRS Fall, Boston, USA, Nov 2018
16.
3D printing of programmable soft active materials, 2018 IMECE, Pittsburgh, USA, Nov 2018
15.
3D printing of programmable soft active materials, 2018 USNC/TAM, Chicago, USA, Jun 2018
14.
Toward next generation hydrogel machines: tough bonding to 3D printing, 2018 MRS Spring, Phoenix, USA, Apr 2018 
13.
3D printing by harnessing deformation, instability, and fracture of viscoelastic inks, 2017 MRS Fall, Boston, USA, Dec 2017
12.
3D printing by harnessing deformation, instability, and fracture of viscoelastic inks, 2017 IMECE, Tampa, USA, Nov 2017
11.
Hydrogel actuators and robots: high-speed, high-force, and camouflage, 2017 IMECE, Tampa, USA, Nov 2017
10.
Phase-diagram assisted 3D printing of viscoelastic materials, 2017 SES, Boston, USA, Jul 2017
9.
Hydraulic hydrogel actuators and robots optically and sonically camouflaged in water, 2016 MRS Fall, Boston, USA, Nov 2016
8.
Skin-inspired robust hydrogel-elastomer hybrids, 2016 MRS Fall, Boston, USA, Nov 2016
7.
Tough wet adhesion of hydrogels, 2015 MRS Fall, Boston, USA, Dec 2015
6.
Tough wet adhesion of hydrogels to diverse non-porous surfaces, 2015 IMECE, Houston, USA, Nov 2015
5.
Tough wet adhesion of hydrogels, 2015 SES, Texas A&M University, USA, Nov 2015
4.
Biomimetic crawling robot, 2010 ISNIT, Seoul, Korea, Oct 2010
3.
Crawling robot design mimicking C. elegans, 2010 URAI, Busan, Korea, Nov 2010
2.
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]
1.
Design and control of thermal SMA based small crawling robot mimicking C. elegans, 2010 KSME Spring Meeting, Jeju Island, Korea, May 2010

Patents

12.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Xinyu Mao, Christoph Nabzdyk, Xuanhe Zhao, Body fluid resistant tissue adhesives, U.S. Application No.62/942,874 (2019)
11.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Xuanhe Zhao, Dry double-sided tape for instant tough bonding of wet tissues and devices, U.S. Application No.62/845,976 (2019)
10.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Akihisa Inoue, Xuanhe Zhao, Strong adhesion of conducting polymers on diverse substrates, U.S. Application No. 62/853,785 (2019)
9.
Baoyang Lu, Hyunwoo Yuk, Xuanhe Zhao, Pure PEDOT:PSS hydrogels with extraordinary electrical, mechanical, and swelling properties, U.S. Application No. 62/813,097 (2019)
8.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Yoonho Kim, Xuanhe Zhao, Programmable soft materials containing ferromagnetic domains and methods of making, U.S. Application No. 62/651,992 (2018)
7.
Xuanhe Zhao, Xinyue Liu, Shaoting Lin, German Parada, Hyunwoo Yuk, Fast-swelling, highly-swellable, robust hydrogel balloons, WO 2019152183 (2018)
5.
German Parada, Hyunwoo Yuk, Xuanhe Zhao, Tough hydrogel coating and method of manufacture, WO 2019084393 (2017)
4.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Xuanhe Zhao, Hydrogel-elastomer hybrids, WO 2017164902 (2017)
3.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Shaoting Lin, Teng Zhang, Xuanhe Zhao, Stretchable, robust and biocompatible hydrogel electronics and devices, WO 2017069910 (2017)
2.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Shaoting Lin, Teng Zhang, German Parada, Xuanhe Zhao, Multifunctional bonding of hydrogels, WO 2017027088 (2017)
1.
Hyunwoo Yuk, Shaoting Lin, Xuanhe Zhao, Extremely compliant yet tough hydrogel systems as ultrasound transmission agents, WO 2016106171 (2016)