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Wang polymer research Lab@UCR focused on the design and synthesis of Mechanically Adaptive Electronics Polymers (MAEPs) for wearable electronics, energy storage and neural electronics


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Recent Publications

[29] A highly stretchable autonomous self-healing elastomer, Cheng-Hui Li*, Chao Wang*, Christoph Keplinger, Jing-Lin Zuo, Lihua Jin, Yang Sun, Peng Zheng, Yi Cao, Franziska Lissel, Christian Linder, Xiao-Zeng You, Zhenan Bao (* equal contribution) Nat. Chem. 2016, 8, in press.
         **Featured by Stanford News, IEEE Spectrum, UCR Today
[28] Z. Chen, P.-C. Hsu, J. Lopez, Y. Li, J. W. F. To, N. Liu, C. Wang, S. C. Andrews, J. Liu, Y. Cui, Z. Bao, "Fast and reversible thermoresponsive polymer switching materials for safer batteries", Nature Energy, 15009, 2016.

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12/23/2016
​Prof. Chao Wang's work on self-healing artificial muscle was published on Advanced Materials!
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201605099/abstract
Highlighted by UCR Today, Yahoo News, Phys Org, and many more.

05/23/2016
Prof. Chao Wang was interviewed by The Week on self-healing artificial muscle, check it out here:
​http://theweek.com/articles/619669/next-robots-synthetic-muscle

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