Tianyu Chen

Employment

• The University of Bristol Academic , Research Associate in Artificial Muscles and Soft Actuator Technologies for Wearable Assistance
  2025 - Present

Education

• Nanyang Technological University Ph.D.
  2021 - 2025
• Northwestern Polytechnical University M.Eng.
  2017 - 2020
• Northwestern Polytechnical University B.Eng.
  2013 - 2017

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (20)

• Suture‐Inspired Interlocking Metamaterials for Energy‐Efficient Morphing
  Advanced Functional Materials 2026 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.78343
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• Muscle Coactivation-Inspired Stiffness-Driven Control Strategy for Antagonistic Soft Robots
  Science Advances 2026 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aeg3346
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• Thermally Responsive Architected Actuators with Programmable Shape Morphing and Tunable Stiffness
  Advanced Intelligent Systems 2025 DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202500123
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• Flexible Multichannel Muscle Impedance Sensors for Collaborative Human-machine Interfaces
  Science Advances 2025 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adv3359
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• Negative-pressure soft pneumatic actuators enabled by asymmetrically distributed bending units
  Extreme Mechanics Letters 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.eml.2025.102340
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• Design and modeling of a programmable morphing structure with variable stiffness capability
  International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2024.109699
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• Multistable Soft Robots Assembled from Bistable Auxetic Building Blocks
  Advanced Intelligent Systems 2024 DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202400529
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• Active Fabrics With Controllable Stiffness for Robotic Assistive Interfaces
  Advanced Materials 2024 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202404502
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• Scale-inspired programmable robotic structures with concurrent shape morphing and stiffness variation
  Science Robotics 2024 DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.adl0307
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• Tunable mechanics of architectured composites from particle assemblies
  Extreme Mechanics Letters 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.eml.2024.102121
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• Hierarchical tessellation enables programmable morphing matter
  Matter 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2023.11.002
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• High‐Efficiency Single‐Droplet Energy Harvester for Self‐Sustainable Environmental Intelligent Networks
  Advanced Energy Materials 2023 DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202302858
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• A Dual‐Responsive Artificial Skin for Tactile and Touchless Interfaces
  Small 2023 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202206830
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• Self‐Sensing Robotic Structures from Architectured Particle Assemblies
  Advanced Intelligent Systems 2023 DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202200250
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• Computational modelling of frictional deformation of bimodal nanograined metals
  International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2022.107220
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• Modelling the Shear Banding in Gradient Nano-Grained Metals
  Nanomaterials 2021 DOI: 10.3390/nano11102468
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• Enhanced frictional performance in gradient nanostructures by strain delocalization
  International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2021.106458
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• Shear band multiplication induced strong strain delocalization and high tensile ductility in amorphous thin films by metallic substrates
  International Journal of Solids and Structures 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2020.03.011
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• Tailoring tensile ductility of thin film by grain size graded substrates
  International Journal of Solids and Structures 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2019.02.011
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• Eliminating deformation incompatibility in composites by gradient nanolayer architectures
  Scientific Reports 2018 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34369-9
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