Functional and Intelligent Polymer Hydrogels and Their Application Research in Bionic Actuation, Shape Memory, and Information Anti-Counterfeiting

2010/09-2014/06: Zhejiang University of Technology, Bachelor
2014/09-2019/06: Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, CAS, Ph.D.
2019/07-2021/12: Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, CAS, Postdoc
2022/01-present: Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, CAS, Associate Professor

[1] Shen, Y.; Shang, H.; Le, X. X.*; Wu, Y.; Sun, Y.; Théato, P.; Chen, T.* Spatiotemporal Regulation Enabling Photo-Dimerizable Gel Networks Toward Multi-Channel Information Encryption. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2025, e13532.
[2] Wu, Y.+; Sun, Y. M.+; Le, X. X.*; Shen, Y.; Jiang, S.; Théato, P.; Wu, S. L.*; Chen, T.* Regulating Interpenetrating Network Gels to Create Anisotropic Photonic Crystals toward Ultrasensitive Mechanochromism. Nano Lett., 2025, 25, 10178-10186.
[3] Shang, H.; Sun, Y.; Le, X. X.*; Shen Y.; Chen, T.* Dynamic metal-ligand coordination enables hydrogel with rewritable dual-mode pattern display. Mater. Horiz., 2024,11, 5244-5250.
[4] Wu, Y.; Shen, Y.; Han, J. Y.; Théato, P.; Le, X. X.*; Chen, T.* Brush-Like Polymeric Gels Enabled Photonic Crystals toward Ultrasensitive Cosolvent Chromism. Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, e202414136.
[5] Shang, H.; Le, X. X.*; Sun, Y.; Wu, S. S; Wang, Y.; Théato, P.; Chen, T.* Water-sensitive fluorescent microgel inks to produce verifiable information for highly secured anti-counterfeiting. Mater. Horiz., 2024, 11, 2856-2864.
[6] Sun, Y.; Le, X. X.*; Shang, H.; Shen, Y.; Wu, Y.; Liu, Q. Q.; Théato, P.; Chen, T.* Dual-mode Hydrogels with Structural and Fluorescent Colors Towards Multistage Secure Information Encryption. Adv. Mater., 2024, 202401589.
[7] Yin, G. Q.; Huo, G. F.; Qi, M.; Liu, D. P.; Li, L. Q.; Zhou, J. Y.; Le, X. X.*;  Wang, Y.; Chen, T.* Precisely Coordination-Modulated Ultralong Organic Phosphorescence Enables Biomimetic Fluorescence-Afterglow Dual-Modal Information Encryption. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 2310043.
[8] Shen, Y.; Le, X. X.*; Wu, Y.; Chen, T.* Stimulus-responsive polymer materials toward multi-mode and multi-level information anti-counterfeiting: recent advances and future challenges. Chem. Soc. Rev., 2024, 53, 606-623.
[9] Sun, Y.; Le, X. X.*; Zhou, S. Y.; Chen, T.* Recent progress in smart polymeric gel-based information storage for anti-counterfeiting, Adv. Mater. 2022, 2201262.
[10] Le, X. X.; Shang, H.; Wu, S. S.; Zhang, J. W.; Liu, M. J.*; Zheng, Y. F.; Chen, T.* Heterogeneous fluorescent organohydrogel enables dynamic anti-counterfeiting, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, 2108365.
[11] Le, X. X.; Shang, H.; Yan, H. Z.; Zhang, J. W.; Lu, W.; Liu, M. J.*; Wang, L. P.; Lu, G. M.; Xue, Q. J.; Chen, T.* A urease-containing fluorescent hydrogel for transient information storage, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 3640.
[12] Le, X. X.; Lu, W.; Zhang, J.; Chen, T. Recent progress in biomimetic anisotropic hydrogel actuators, Adv. Sci. 2019, 6, 1801584.