Research

[J1]. Zefang Li, Gina Olson, Dinesh K. Patel, Lining Yao, Carmel Majidi, “Electrically Controlled Liquid Crystal Elastomer Surfaces for Dynamic Wrinkling,” Advanced Intelligent Systems, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aisy.202200402.
[J0]. Xufei Suo*, Tingkang Wang*, Zefang Li, Yongxing Shen, “Elastic Solution for a Rotating Bi-material Ring with Thermal Mismatch”, Mechanics Research Communications, Volume 113, 2021, 103695, ISSN 0093-6413, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechrescom.2021.103695.
[C0]. Yiwen Song, Mason Zadan, Kushaan Misra, Zefang Li, Jingxian Wang, Carmel Majidi, Swarun Kumar, “Navigating Soft Robots through Wireless Heating,” 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 2598-2605, IEEE, 2023.

Experimental Research

Experienced in synthesis of liquid crystal elastomer (LCE), and design of LCE materials.
3D printers: Hyrel (experienced), Voltera printers for direct ink writing, and Formlabs (experienced) and Objet printers for general use.
Material characterization: Differential scanning calorimetry, Dynamic mechanical analysis, ZEISS confocal microscope, GelSight probe, Instron test machine.
Experienced in fabrication: 3D printing, laser cutting, molding, planetary mixing, stencil printing and etc.

Simulation/Computation

CAD/CAM: SOLIDWORKS, EAGLE, AutoCAD.
Programming Languages: MATLAB, Python, C/C++, R, LaTeX.
Machine Learning, Signal processing and filtering, Digital control.
Understand Adobe Premiere, Abaqus, Simulink, LabVIEW (Certificated LabVIEW Associate Developer, 11/2019)