Dr Xue Chen

Mechanics and physics of smart materials and soft matter

• Multi-physics coupling behaviours in smart materials
• Energy conversion behaviours in smart materials
• Instability behaviours in soft materials
• Multi-scale modelling for material behaviours
• Design and development of novel smart materials and structures for energy applications
• Design, modelling and optimization of smart-materials-based flexible devices

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• 3D-Printed Gradient Shape-Memory Strain Sensors with Rewritable Gauge Factors, Zhang, X., Qiao, W., Jiang, K., Chen, S., Cui, H., Dyer, K., Zhu, X., Wang, T., Zhang, X., Xu, B., Kong, J. 30 Sep 2026, In: Advanced Functional Materials
• A Natural Lignification Inspired Super-Hard Wood-based Composites with Extreme Resilience, Huang, Y., Jiang, K., He, Y., Hu, J., Dyer, K., Chen, S., Akinlabi, E., Zhang, D., Zhang, X., Yu, Y., Yu, W., Xu, B. 12 May 2025, In: Advanced Materials
• A Semi-transparent Strong Biomimetic Wound Healing Material: Zinc Oxide and Sodium Alginate Based Bi-layer Nanofiber Membrane, Kuddushi, M., Kumar, T., Wu, H., Chen, S., Xu, B., Malek, N., Unsworth, L., Xu, J., Zhang, J., Wang, X., Zhang, X. 20 Feb 2025, In: Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials
• Key mechanisms to mechanically improve polyacrylamide-based hydrogels, Liu, J., Chen, X., Zhang, C., Maitournam, H., He, Y. 1 Aug 2025, In: Journal of Polymer Science
• Soft Gel-Based Transformative Structured Engineering Design, Jiang, K., Chen, S., Dai, C., Xu, B. 26 Dec 2025, In: Accounts of Materials Research
• Stability of propagating Austenite-Martensite interface in Ni-Mn-Ga single crystal, Gao, X., Zhang, C., Chen, S., Brisset, F., Hubert, O., He, Y. 10 Aug 2025, In: Journal of Alloys and Compounds
• Supramolecular Zwitterionic Hydrogels for Information Encryption, Soft Electronics and Energy Storage at Icy Temperature, Wang, G., Ni, H., Li, Y., Torun, H., Chen, S., Shahzad, M., Zhang, X., Zheng, S., Xu, B., Yang, J. 28 Aug 2025, In: Advanced Functional Materials
• Austenite-martensite interfacial patterns and energy dissipation of phase transformation in Ni-Mn-Ga single crystal, Zhang, C., Chen, X., Gao, X., Brisset, F., Hubert, O., He, Y. 1 Dec 2024, In: Acta Materialia
• Characterization on thermal hysteresis of shape memory alloys via macroscopic interface propagation, Zhang, C., Chen, X., Hubert, O., He, Y. 1 Mar 2024, In: Materialia
• Microstructure-Reconfigured Graphene Oxide Aerogel Metamaterials for Ultrarobust Directional Sensing at Human–Machine Interfaces, Wang, Y., Qin, Z., Wang, D., Liu, D., Wang, Z., Jazzar, A., He, P., Guo, Z., Chen, S., Jia, C., He, X., Zhang, X., Xu, B., Chen, F. 25 Sep 2024, In: Nano Letters

• Engineering PhD June 18 2014
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy FHEA 2018