Endoscopic minimally invasive surgery offers significant advantages but still struggles with safe navigation and precise manipulation in delicate anatomical environments. To address this, we develop bioinspired soft robotic tools that mimic animal-like movements to deliver safer, more agile, and more precise interventions.
Representative Work:
Science Robotics, in press. [PDF]
Journal of Medical Devices, 2024. [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2022. [PDF]
Advanced Functional Materials, 2021. [PDF]
Hydrogel bioadhesives create gentle, tunable, and conformal tissue interfaces that enable sutureless repair and device integration, and we aim to advance them into robust, multifunctional materials that minimize device–tissue mismatch and improve long-term diagnostic and therapeutic performance.
Representative Work:
Science Translational Medicine, 2025. [PDF]
Cell Biomaterials, 2025. [PDF]
Nature Reviews Materials, 2022. [PDF]
Advanced Functional Materials, 2021. [PDF]
Materials Horizons, 2019. [PDF]
Ingestible electronics provide noninvasive access to gastrointestinal physiology and theranostic opportunities, but are limited by rigidity, cost, degradability, and battery dependence. To address these limitations, we develop soft, low-cost, multifunctional ingestible bioelectronics that enhance tissue interaction and enable advanced diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities.
Representative papers:
Multi-hundred-mW Deep-Tissue Wireless Power Transfer for Ingestible Robots (in submission), 2025.
Device (Cell Press), 2025. [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2024. [PDF]
Biomaterials, 2023. [PDF]
Device (Cell Press), 2023. [PDF]
