Shaoting Lin

Assistant Professor at UW-Madison, Extreme Soft Materials for healthcare, water, and energy. Ph.D. and Postdoc @ MIT, AP @ MSU.

[MSU College of Engineering @MSU_EGR]

Algae can help produce sustainable food, fuels and materials, but dense cultures block sunlight.

MSU researcher Xinyue Liu is part of a team developing light-scattering hydrogel optical fibers that bring sunlight deeper, helping algae grow 6x faster.

https://t.co/Nv4ulb6g2L

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

Excited to share that our Editor-Invited Review, titled "Mechano-Diffusion of Particles in Hydrogels", is just published in Extreme Mechanics Letter. This is a joint work in collaboration with Prof. Jingjie Yeo @JingjieYeo at Cornell. Link: https://t.co/cMF1MkEaaK

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

Great honor for being selected as the 2026 Class of PMSE Early Investigators！Hearty congratulations to other honorees！Look forward to ACS Fall 2026 in Chicago.

[ACS PMSE Division @acspmse]

🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Class of #PMSE Early Investigators!

We’re proud to recognize these emerging leaders for their innovative contributions to polymer science & engineering.

🧪 Honorees will be celebrated during #ACSFall2026
📍 Chicago, IL | 🗓 Aug. 24–27, 2026

[酒井崇匡| gel scientist @Gel_Tokyo]

よし、たまにはゲルのことでも呟こう。このままだと、ただの酒飲みだと思われてしまう。
今回のMRSでの発表内容は、Fatigue-Resistant High-Strength Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Gels。世の中に強いゲルは数多あれど、靭帯に耐えるようなゲルはまだまだ存在しません。なぜかというと、そもそもメチャクチャ要求特性が高いんですよ。

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

@_SungminNam Thanks, Sungmin!

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

Today is a milestone of my group. We graduate our first PhD student Jiabin Liu with her thesis, titled "Topological Mechanics of Hydrogels". The core of her thesis is to explore network topology as a fundamental determinant for enabling extreme mechanical and transport properties

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@christos_edward Many thanks for your kind words, Christos!

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

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

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

Thrilled to share our joint work on "Tissue-Adhesive Hydrogel-MXene Biosensor for In-situ Intraoral TNF-α Detection", just published in Science Advances (https://t.co/YWntcH3Owi). Congrats to my student Tsz Hung Wong, Jie Ma, Ruihao Lu!

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

@_SungminNam Many thanks for your kind words，Sungmin！

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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.

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

Thrilled to share our joint work on "Tissue-Adhesive Hydrogel-MXene Biosensor for In-situ Intraoral TNF-α Detection", just published in Science Advances (https://t.co/YWntcH3Owi). Congrats to my student Tsz Hung Wong, Jie Ma, Ruihao Lu!

[Lihua Jin @lihuajin2014]

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.
https://t.co/73ORg7TjQy

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

@_SungminNam @RuobingB Many thanks，Sungmin！

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

Feel proud to share our recent work on defect-engineered elastocaloric polymers published in Advanced Science (https://t.co/qMN5XRnVFK), in collaboration with @RuobingB at NEU and Prof. Svetlana Boriskina @ MIT.

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

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.

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

Feel proud to share our recent work on defect-engineered elastocaloric polymers published in Advanced Science (https://t.co/qMN5XRnVFK), in collaboration with @RuobingB at NEU and Prof. Svetlana Boriskina @ MIT.

[Zhigang Suo @zhigangsuo]

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.
https://t.co/T09LkIsHD6

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

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.

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

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!

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

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.

[Zhigang Suo @zhigangsuo]

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!
https://t.co/qnf62DT7No