New inks, preclinical ultrasound
enable 3D printing to build structures through tissues

Science

Origami, 3D printing merge to make complex structures in one shot

Single-vat grayscale digital light processing enables printing functionally graded materials for complex tissue models and soft robots

Science Advances

Extrusion printing of stretchable self-healing and shape-memory tubes for vascular repair devices

ACS Applied Materials&Interfaces

A novel magnetic dynamic polymer enables modular assembling and reconfiguring shapes for fast actuation like a transformer

Advanced Materials

Tough hydrogels enable bioprinting of physiologically relevant engineered vessels as preclinical models and implantable vessel grafts

Science Advances

A novel magnetic shape memory polymer with magnetically programmed stiffness and shape for minimally invasive biomedical devices and beyond

Advanced Materials

Welcome to the research group website of Professor Xiao Kuang

-We engineer forms and functions of soft (bio)materials for sustainability and healthcare!

We focus on the design and advanced manufacturing of functional soft (bio)materials/systems. Leveraging multiscale polymer design and characterization, additive manufacturing techniques, ultrasound technology, modeling/machine-learning tools, and bioengineering approaches, the AM2 Lab seeks to advance transformative design and manufacturing of multifunctional materials and (bio)systems for enhanced material/energy sustainability and precision health!

Recent News

(Feb 14, 2025) Andrea Relucio joined the team as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome!

(Feb 10, 2025)  Dr. Kuang gave a virtual guest lecture titled “Instructive Biomaterials Enable 3D (Bio) Printing for Regenerative and Precision Medicine” to the BME students at Tufts University.

(Jan 7, 2025) Ziwen Wang joined the team as a PhD student. Welcome!