Biography
Dr. Jiu-an Lv received his B. Sc. and M.S. degrees in the department of chemistry from northwest university, China, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. After that, he served as a process engineer at the China aerospace science and technology corporation for three years. In 2011, he began to study liquid crystal polymer materials at Fudan university and obtained Ph. D degree in 2016. Then he worked in the department of Materials in Fudan University as a postdoctoral researcher between 2016 and 2018. He joined Westlake University as an Assistant Professor in March 2018.
History
2022
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research-2021, School of Engineering, Westlake University
2021
Best Young Scientist Award, IEEE 6th Optoelectronics Global Conference, IEEE Photonics Society
2017
Excellent Doctoral Dissertation in Materials Science (Only Ten Selected over China), Chinese Materials Research Society (C-MRS)
2016
Top Ten Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs of Shanghai, Shanghai Municipal Committee of Science and Technology
Research
Dr. Jiu-an Lv's research interest focuses on photodeformable liquid crystal polymer materials and their application in functional devices. Dr. Lv has developed a conceptually novel optomicrofluidics technology that utilizes photodeformation to manipulate small amounts of liquids. His thesis has been selected as the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Chinese Materials Research Society in 2017 (only ten in China). In the future, Lv's group will continue working on deformable polymer materials and their functional devices. The research directions include but are not limited to the following: 1) Design and preparation of novel deformable liquid crystal polymer materials; 2) Design and fabrication of flexible smart device; 3) Development and application of novel optomicrofluidics technologies.
Representative Publications
1. Zhiming Hu, Yanlin Zhang, Hanqing Jiang*, Jiu-an Lv*. Bioinspired Helical-Artificial Fibrous Muscle Structured Tubular Soft Actuators. Sci. Adv. 2023, 9, eadh3350.
2. Wenhao Hou, Jiao Wang, Jiu-an Lv*. Bioinspired Liquid Crystalline Spinning Enables Scalable Fabrication of High-Performing Fibrous Artificial Muscles. Adv. Mater. 2023, 35, 2211800.
3. Jiao Wang, Tonghui Zhao, Yangyang Fan, Huimin Wu*, Jiu-an Lv*. Leveraging Bioinspired Structural Constraints for Tunable and Programmable Snapping Dynamics in High-Speed Soft Actuators. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, 33, 220979.
4. Zhiming Hu, Yunlong Li, Jiu-an Lv*. Phototunable Self-oscillating System Driven by a Self-winding Fiber Actuator. Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 3211.
5. Zhiming Hu#, Wei Fang#, Qunyang Li, Xi-Qiao Feng*, Jiu-an Lv*. Optocapillarity-Driven Assembly and Reconfiguration of Liquid Crystal Polymer Actuators. Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 5780.
6. Jiu-an Lv, Yuyun Liu, Jia Wei, Erqiang Chen, Lang Qin, Yanlei Yu*. Photocontrol of Fluid Slugs in Liquid Crystal Polymer Microactuators. Nature, 2016, 537, 179.
Contact Us
Email: lvjiuan@westlake.edu.cn
Our lab, Smart Polymer Materials Lab (SPML), has been developing deformable polymer materials and their functional devices. We explore unconventional and novel functions arising from stimulus-responsive shape-changes of liquid crystal polymers. Postdocs, graduate students, and research assistants, interested in smart soft materials and functional devices, are welcome to join SPML.
Please visit http://www.jiu-anlvlab.cn for more information.