On Nov 1, 2024, Prof. Wu Ziliang from Zhejiang University, recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, was invited to visit Institute of New Concept Sensors and Molecular Materials and give a report titled “High Performance Hydrogel Materials and Devices”.

The report focuses on the important progress made by Prof. Wu’s group in recent years in the design and preparation of high-performance hydrogels, deformation-driven functional regulation, especially the breakthroughs in the molecular formation mechanism of the glassy state of hydrogels and the method of multi-stable deformation control.

The report was moderated by Prof. Liu Kaiqiang, and attended by more than 60 people, including faculty and students of the Institute and Prof. Yu You of Northwestern University, who discussed with Prof. Wu in issues of gel design and soft-matter driving strategies.