Shaoting Lin

@zhigangsuo Zhigang，many thanks for your kind words and long term support！

@lin_shaoting Wonderful! So happy to see you do great.

Thrilled to share our joint work on "Tissue-Adhesive Hydrogel-MXene Biosensor for In-situ Intraoral TNF-α Detection", just published in Science Advances (science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…). Congrats to my student Tsz Hung Wong, Jie Ma, Ruihao Lu!

@_SungminNam Many thanks for your kind words，Sungmin！

@lin_shaoting Congrats!!! This is a fantastic work!

The core idea is introduce selective-permeable hydrogel as an interfacing material between sensing probe and body fluid, only allowing the passage of target biomarkers while rejecting the transport of non-target biomolecules, thereby enhancing sensing performance.

USNC-TAM 2026 will be held on June 21–25, 2026 in Pasadena, California. Shaoting @lin_shaoting , Ruobing @RuobingB, Berkin and I are organizing a mini-symposium, Mechanics and Physics of Soft Materials. Please submit an abstract by Jan 15, 2026. usnctam26.org/home

@_SungminNam @RuobingB Many thanks，Sungmin！

@lin_shaoting @RuobingB Congrats!!! Beautiful work

Feel proud to share our recent work on defect-engineered elastocaloric polymers published in Advanced Science (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…), in collaboration with @RuobingB at NEU and Prof. Svetlana Boriskina @ MIT.

The defect-engineered polymer achieves an adiabatic temperature change of up to 8.14 °C at an elevated temperature above 65 °C. This working mechanism is due to competing effects of dangling-chain defects on strain-induced crystallization and temperature-induced crystallization.

Reading again the essay by Walter Noll, The Role of the Professor. He "lives" his subject and cannot easily switch it off, even while lying in bed awake or on vacation. He recreates the subject in his mind each time he lectures on it. math.cmu.edu/~wn0g/RP.pdf

We are excited about the 2025 SES meeting @SocEngScience next week. We will present our recent research progress covering topics: 1) Mechano-diffusion, 2) Tactile Robots, 3) Hydrogel Bioelectronics, 4) Topological Mechanics, 5) Elastocaloric Polymers. Feel free to stop by.

Highly excited to co-organize the 2026 MRS Spring Symposium SB08 with @Junsoo_twit , @cemilyd, and Wei Zhai on "High-Performance Soft Materials by Polymer-Network Design" at 2026 MRS Spring Meeting in Honolulu. Abstract submissions are now open! Look forward to your submission!

It's my great honor to host Prof. Bozhi Tian from U Chicago to give a seminar talk on Bioelectrical Interfaces for Translational Applications. We all enjoyed the talk and learned from the talk. Glad to see our students to have opportunities to interact with their role models.

In 1994, I went for my first sabbatical, at Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, in Stuttgart, Germany. My host, Manfred Rühle, let me alone. In the Institute Library, I discovered Gibbs’s paper on phases in a pure substance. What a revelation! docs.google.com/document/d/1iE…

@cemilyd Hearty Congrats，Emily！

Another paper out! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Postdoc Clement took on a big challenge - to synthesize monodisperse liquid crystalline oligomers. These molecules also crystallize, with curvature that (surprising to us!) depends on length. We dug in to try to figure out 'why'!

Many thanks for highlighting this. We feel grateful a recent award from the ACS Petroleum Research Fund, seeking a new direction for harnessing mechanical deformation to engineer nanoparticle transport, potentially beneficial for enhanced oil recovery and drilling fluid design.

I am looking for a PhD scientist to work together @SanaHeal. Will work on products based on our bioadhesive technology platform internally & with large publicly traded company partnered on diverse medical devices. Our office/lab is in Boston & competitive salary & compensation

@ida_shohei Prof Shohei Ida，excellent photographer👍👍. Nice to meet you in person and chair the session with you！Keep in touch！

Very nice photo! The photographer may be nice😂 Anyway, I'm happy to see you at PPC, and would like to keep in touch in our gel community!

@PolymerAdvanced @Gel_Tokyo Prof. Miyata，Many thanks for your kind words！Great to meet you in person！

@lin_shaoting @Gel_Tokyo Thank you very much for your excellent talk today. I really enjoyed your invited talk, which inspired me. Please keep in touch with Japanese gel scientists.

Feel deeply honored and truly grateful for being invited by Prof. Takamasa Sakai @Gel_Tokyo to give an invited talk on at the 19th Pacific Polymer Conference. This is my first time to visit Japan. Great to know polymer people in Japan.

We had a great one-day NSF-funded workshop this Friday, engaging more than 50 participants from more than 10 universities and industries. We hope this workshop can be an initiative to foster connections and collaborations between universities and industries.