Modern science and engineering have greatly increased our understanding of the fundamental principles that nature uses to build and regulate living systems that exhibit an enormous range of complexity and functionality as well as a high level of adaptability to the surrounding environments. These insights into the sophisticated functions of nature offer unique opportunities to create new engineering principles inspired by biological systems and use them to develop intelligent biomaterials that may potentially lead to transformative breakthroughs in biomedicine and many other areas of human endeavor.

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Our primary research interest lies in the discovery and utilization of these bio-inspired design principles and engineering strategies with the goal to improve the quality of human life. We utilize these bio-inspired concepts to design functional and intelligent biomaterials, as well as develop new tissue engineering methods, therapeutics, and sensing/screening platforms for biomedical applications.