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 Professor Xiao Kuang’s Research Group

-We program How Materials Form, Function, and Adapt

The Adaptive Materials and Advanced Manufacturing (AM²) Lab explores how light, sound, and other physical fields interact with matter to shape the formation, structure, and functions of polymers, composites, and soft (bio)materials. By integrating materials science, mechanics, advanced manufacturing, ultrasound, artificial intelligence, and bioengineering, we seek to understand and control how materials are created, respond to their environments, and transform throughout their life cycles. We aim to advance programmable, adaptive materials and develop innovative technologies for advanced manufacturing, sustainability, and precision health.

Funding Support