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Research
Latest papers
Mesophase Tunable Actuation of Ionic Thiol-Acrylate Liquid Crystal Elastomers.
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026 · senior author
Artificial Intelligence Meets Micro/Nanorobotics.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
Driving Drugs Deeper: Force-Driven Microneedle Systems for Active Therapy and Their Road Towards Clinical Implementation.
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026
Latest funding
- $149,923
Microscope - Digital Micromirror Device Combo for the Characterization, Fabrication, and Manipulation of Microrobots
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $125,000
Soft Microrobots for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (SMART)
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $25,000
High Throughput Fabrication of Microrobots using Digital Micromirror Device Photolithography Combined with Microfluidics
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
20 publications.
Mesophase Tunable Actuation of Ionic Thiol-Acrylate Liquid Crystal Elastomers.
Maddah Y, Siddiquee Z, Scarfo MG, Rahimidarestani Y, Yu A, Mekonnen T, Jákli A, Shahsavan H
Artificial Intelligence Meets Micro/Nanorobotics.
Yurtsever FM, Ramakrishnan MC, Ross IK, Zelinka I, Shahsavan H, Otyepka M, Pumera M
Driving Drugs Deeper: Force-Driven Microneedle Systems for Active Therapy and Their Road Towards Clinical Implementation.
Amini M, Li P, Shahsavan H, Poudineh M
Porous Hybrid Soft Actuators From Liquid Crystal Networks and Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal Templated Hydrogels.
Herrera Restrepo RS, Tejedor García IH, Scarfo MG, Bouzari N, Rajabi N, Bantysh O, Torres-Andrés J, James CWV, Guix M, Aghakhani A, Ignés-Mullol J, Pané S, Puigmartí-Luis J, Shahsavan H
Stiffening Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Liquid Crystal Inclusions.
Vasanji S, Scarfo MG, Alyami A, Mekonnen TH, Hajireza P, Saed MO, Jákli A, Shahsavan H
Technology Roadmap of Micro/Nanorobots.
Ju X, Chen C, Oral CM, Sevim S, Golestanian R, Sun M, Bouzari N, Lin X, Urso M, Nam JS, Cho Y, Peng X, Landers FC, Yang S, Adibi A, Taz N, Wittkowski R, Ahmed D, Wang W, Magdanz V, Medina-Sánchez M, Guix M, Bari N, Behkam B, Kapral R, Huang Y, Tang J, Wang B, Morozov K, Leshansky A, Abbasi SA, Choi H, Ghosh S, Borges Fernandes B, Battaglia G, Fischer P, Ghosh A, Jurado Sánchez B, Escarpa A, Martinet Q, Palacci J, Lauga E, Moran J, Ramos-Docampo MA, Städler B, Herrera Restrepo RS, Yossifon G, Nicholas JD, Ignés-Mullol J, Puigmartí-Luis J, Liu Y, Zarzar LD, Shields CW, Li L, Li S, Ma X, Gracias DH, Velev O, Sánchez S, Esplandiu MJ, Simmchen J, Lobosco A, Misra S, Wu Z, Li J, Kuhn A, Nourhani A, Maric T, Xiong Z, Aghakhani A, Mei Y, Tu Y, Peng F, Diller E, Sakar MS, Sen A, Law J, Sun Y, Pena-Francesch A, Villa K, Li H, Fan DE, Liang K, Huang TJ, Chen XZ, Tang S, Zhang X, Cui J, Wang H, Gao W, Kumar Bandari V, Schmidt OG, Wu X, Guan J, Sitti M, Nelson BJ, Pané S, Zhang L, Shahsavan H, He Q, Kim ID, Wang J, Pumera M
Hybrid Zwitterionic Hydrogels with Encoded Differential Swelling and Programmed Deformation for Small-Scale Robotics.
Bouzari N, Nasseri R, Huang J, Ganguly S, Tang XS, Mekonnen TH, Aghakhani A, Shahsavan H
Sperm cell empowerment: X-ray-guided magnetic fields for enhanced actuation and localization of cytocompatible biohybrid microrobots.
Magdanz V, van der Mijle Meijer JK, Ligtenberg LW, Pervez Y, LaBrash-White M, Shabani Dargah M, Mulder I, Mohsenkani S, Gorbet M, Bouzari N, Shahsavan H, Weber L, Liefers RH, Warlé MC, Khalil ISM
Liquid Crystal Networks Meet Water: It's Complicated!
Pinchin NP, Guo H, Meteling H, Deng Z, Priimagi A, Shahsavan H
Programmable nanocomposites of cellulose nanocrystals and zwitterionic hydrogels for soft robotics.
Nasseri R, Bouzari N, Huang J, Golzar H, Jankhani S, Tang XS, Mekonnen TH, Aghakhani A, Shahsavan H
Microscope - Digital Micromirror Device Combo for the Characterization, Fabrication, and Manipulation of Microrobots
Principal investigators: Shahsavan, Hamed
Keywords: Digital Micromirror Device; Digital Projection Lithography; Hydrogels; Layer-by-layer Microfabrication; Liquid Crystals; Material Characterization; Microrobotics Control and Manipulation; Optical Microscopy; Smart Materials; Soft Microrobots
Soft Microrobots for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (SMART)
Principal investigators: Shahsavan, Hamed
High Throughput Fabrication of Microrobots using Digital Micromirror Device Photolithography Combined with Microfluidics
Principal investigators: Shahsavan, Hamed H
Keywords: biomedical engineering; digital micromirror device; hydrogels; liquid crystals; lithography; microfluidics; microrobotics; nano- microtechnology; polymers; smart polymers
Novel cellulose-based membranes for CO2 filtration and ion exchange in aluminum/air batteries
Principal investigators: Shahsavan, Hamed H
Keywords: cellulose nano crystal; co2 filtration; hydrogel membranes; ionic exchange; membrane technology; metal-air batteries; polymers; renewable materials
Novel electroactive liquid crystal elastomers for soft robotic applications
Principal investigators: Shahsavan, Hamed HS
Keywords: Dielectric Elastomers; Electroactive; Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals; Ionic Liquids; Liquid Crystal Elastomers; Medical Robots; Polymers; Programmable Materials; Soft Robots
Development of Novel Programmable Stimuli-responsive Polymers for Small-scale Soft Robots
Principal investigators: Shahsavan, Hamed
Keywords: programmable materials; stimuli-responsive polymers; liquid crystal networks; soft micro-robotics; nanocomposies; micro/nanofabrication; two-photon polymerization; 4d additive manufacturing; molecular engineering; medical robotics
Development of Novel Programmable Stimuli-responsive Polymers for Small-scale Soft Robots
Principal investigators: Shahsavan, Hamed
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Boxin Zhao and Hamed Shahsavan: 6 shared papers
- Hamed Shahsavan and Veronika Magdanz: 2 shared papers
- Yu Sun and Eric Diller: 1 shared paper
- Yu Sun and Hamed Shahsavan: 1 shared paper
- Yu Sun and Veronika Magdanz: 1 shared paper
- Eric Diller and Hamed Shahsavan: 1 shared paper
- Eric Diller and Veronika Magdanz: 1 shared paper
- Mahla Poudineh and Hamed Shahsavan: 1 shared paper
- Aiping Yu and Tizazu Mekonnen: 1 shared paper
- Aiping Yu and Hamed Shahsavan: 1 shared paper
- Maud Gorbet and Hamed Shahsavan: 1 shared paper
- Maud Gorbet and Veronika Magdanz: 1 shared paper
- Tizazu Mekonnen and Hamed Shahsavan: 1 shared paper
- Chemical Engineering
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Systems Design Engineering
- Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
Co-authors at University of Waterloo, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Boxin Zhao
Department of Chemical Engineering
6 shared papers, latest 2017
Veronika Magdanz
Systems Design Engineering
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Eric Diller
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Mahla Poudineh
Electrical and Computer Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Yu Sun
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Aiping Yu
Department of Chemical Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Maud Gorbet
Systems Design Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Tizazu Mekonnen
Chemical Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2026
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