Welcome to He Group We aim at creating new, energy-efficient, environmentally-responsive materials and dynamic systems or devices that respond, adapt and move essentially instantaneously and thereby, exhibit adaptive and self-regulating behavior, for a variety of fundamental science studies and applications from biological/chemical sensing and separation to energy harvesting and conversion.
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    Oct, 2023

    Prof. He is named as 2023 Moore Inventor Fellow, to develop advanced polymer materials for energy storage technology with the support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Featured by UCLA Samueli Newsroom

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    Aug, 2023

    Prof. He is selected as the recipient of 2023 Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholar, awarded to promising women researchers to inspire future female STEM leaders.

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    Jun, 2021

    Soft Focus: A Flexible Future for Robots. UCLA engineers lay the groundwork for machines with astounding abilities.

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    Feb, 2021

    UCLA Materials Scientists Show Way to Make Durable Artificial Tendons from Improved Hydrogels, reported by UCLA Samueli Newsroom.

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    Dec, 2020

    Prof. He is selected as the recipient of 2021 Young Investigator Medal of the Society of Engineering Science (SES), awarded to promising early-career researchers whose work has high impacts in engineering sciences.

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    April, 2020

    Prof.Ximin He has been awarded 3M Nontenured Faculty Award. This competitive award is presented to recognize outstanding young faculty commitmented to advancing the state of science and engineering.

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    Feb 2, 2020

    New Anti-Ice Coating Could Prevent Frozen Cars and Pipes, reported by Popular Mechanics

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    Jan 29, 2020

    Hydrogel coating is first to prevent ice formation in 3 different ways, reported by UCLA Newsroom

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    Nov 13, 2019

    Video: Sunflowers inspire light-tracking solar material, reported by C&EN

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    Nov 12, 2019

    Researchers create solar energy system inspired by flowers’ light-finding ability, reported by Daily Bruin

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    Nov 5, 2019

    The first artificial material that follows sunlight may upgrade solar panels, reported by ScienceNews

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    August,2019

    Prof.Ximin He has been awarded CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar (2019-2021) (15/yr selected worldwide)

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    August,2019

    Prof.Ximin He has been awarded International Society of Bionic Engineering (ISBE) Outstanding Youth Award (2019) (1/yr every 3 years)

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    May 19,2019

    Yucheng Zhang has received the 2019 Morning Light Foundation Scholarship for Outstanding M.S. Student in South California Region

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    May 19, 2019

    Jiaqi Song has received the 2019 UCLA Engineering Commencement Awards for Outstanding M.S. Students.

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    April,2018

    Prof.Ximin He has been awarded Hellman Fellows Award (2018)

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    Bio-inspired photo-responsive materials

    Optical sensing of chemical and biological molecules-Photo-responsive materials for optics, photonics, waveguides, and photo-harvesting

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    Self-regulating materials

    Living organisms exhibit unique homeostatic abilities, maintaining tight control of their local environment through inter-conversions of chemical and mechanical energy and self-regulating feedback loops organized hierarchically across many length scales. Inspired by this, we have applied the concept of homeostasis to the design of autonomous materials and created a synthetic homeostatic material

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    3D Printing

    The newest 3D printing system that we are building is able to print hybrid materials. Combining with our stimuli-responsive polymer research, 3D printing techniques will allow us to print out soft robotics, investigate its practical uses and provide the foundation for developing applications of self-regulated and bio-inspired photosensitive materials as well.

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