I am excited to share the news my DECRA application is successful! Many thanks to everyone, especially Prof. Luke Connal Connal Group, Prof.@ Andrew Whittaker, and my host Prof.Prof Geoffrey Spinks who support me all along the way. Look forward to starting my new career UOW

Interested in designing bioinspired shape changing polymers, and using them to create soft machines? We are looking for a PhD student to join us working on lots of exciting projects! If interested, please contact us: [email protected] and [email protected]. Many thanks.

New MONET publication in Science: Toughening hydrogels through force-triggered chemical reactions that lengthen polymer strands science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Very excited to share my first publication in Science!!! The recent exciting advance, current challenges, and future directions for hydrogel soft actuators, is briefly discussed. Strong and fast hydrogel actuators science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Last talk of the day is by Dr Zhen Jiang who inspires us with Life-like Smart Soft Materials

Come work with Prof Cyrille Boyer and me at UNSW School of Chemical Engineering on fancy photopolymerisation reactions! Postdoc position now available external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5101… #JobAlert #postdoc #polymer

Pls help to spread: #Technician position at Empa is still open from lab @BiointerfacesCH @Biomemtex m.refline.ch/673276/1618/pu…

A #postdoc position open in my group Engineering at Newcastle Newcastle University on #biopolymers #chemistry and #engineering to develop #functionalmaterials under a Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council project. Closes 6th Nov 2022 jobs.ac.uk/job/CTB564/res…

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Review 3: The authors have well addressed all of the concerns, now it is suitable for publication. Review 2: The authors have not well addressed the comments raised by Review 3, so still not suitable for publication 🤣🤣🤣....

🚨 job alert! 🚨 I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow in polymer and materials chemistry! Start June 2023. 🔗: careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/4985… Please RT! Royal Australian Chemical Institute polyNSW RACI Qld Branch

Please check out our recent work in Advanced Materials. We report a tissue-like, high-power artificial muscle. Many thanks for the strong support from Prof Geoffrey Spinks, University of Wollongong UOW UOW Engineering and Information Sciences (EIS), and ARC DECRA funding. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

In this Highlight, we summarize the recent advances in materials design to improve the performance of hydrogel actuators. Many thanks for the kind invitation from Chemical Communications, and strong support from Prof Geoffrey Spinks, UOW Engineering and Information Sciences (EIS) pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

3D printable high-performance conducting polymer hydrogel for all-hydrogel bioelectronic interfaces Hyunwoo Yuk Xuanhe Zhao go.nature.com/3NevobC

Excited to see that our recent work on twisted and coiled artificial muscle has been selected for the cover of Advanced Materials. Many thanks for the strong support from Prof Geoffrey Spinks UOW Engineering and Information Sciences (EIS) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

In our recent work published in Advanced Functional Materials, we design an ultrastrong, ultratough hydrogel with metal-like conductivity. Really a pleasure to colloborate with Prof. Weihua Li's team. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Please check out our new Advanced Materials paper, we design a soft actuator combing crack-resistant, tissue-like modulus, low temperature sensitivity and high power density. Prof Geoffrey Spinks UOW Engineering and Information Sciences (EIS) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.100… Delighted to know that our most recent Advanced Materials paper @AdvSciNews been selected as Hot Topic. Very grateful for the support from Prof Geoffrey Spinks UOW Engineering and Information Sciences (EIS). Looking forward to creating more high-performance soft actuators in the future.

Professor Max Lu AO has been appointed Vice-Chancellor and President of #UOW. Professor Lu will return to Australia in May 2025 to lead UOW in its 50th anniversary year. Please join us in congratulating and welcoming Professor Lu 👉 bit.ly/41q6rme #ThisIsUOW

Just submitted the rejoinder to FT. Five assessors, 4 of them are positive. One is quite negative, who criticizes that the proposed concept of using polyester yarn fibres has already been reported in Adv. Mater., 2024, e2402278. However, that paper has nothing to do with it!!!