Prof. He is named as 2023 Moore Inventor Fellow, to develop advanced polymer materials for energy storage technology with the support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Featured by UCLA Samueli Newsroom

Prof. He is selected as the recipient of 2023 Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholar, awarded to promising women researchers to inspire future female STEM leaders.

Soft Focus: A Flexible Future for Robots. UCLA engineers lay the groundwork for machines with astounding abilities.

UCLA Materials Scientists Show Way to Make Durable Artificial Tendons from Improved Hydrogels, reported by UCLA Samueli Newsroom.

Prof. He is selected as the recipient of 2021 Young Investigator Medal of the Society of Engineering Science (SES), awarded to promising early-career researchers whose work has high impacts in engineering sciences.

Prof.Ximin He has been awarded 3M Nontenured Faculty Award. This competitive award is presented to recognize outstanding young faculty commitmented to advancing the state of science and engineering.

New Anti-Ice Coating Could Prevent Frozen Cars and Pipes, reported by Popular Mechanics

Hydrogel coating is first to prevent ice formation in 3 different ways, reported by UCLA Newsroom

Video: Sunflowers inspire light-tracking solar material, reported by C&EN

Researchers create solar energy system inspired by flowers’ light-finding ability, reported by Daily Bruin

The first artificial material that follows sunlight may upgrade solar panels, reported by ScienceNews

Prof.Ximin He has been awarded CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar (2019-2021) (15/yr selected worldwide)

Prof.Ximin He has been awarded International Society of Bionic Engineering (ISBE) Outstanding Youth Award (2019) (1/yr every 3 years)

Yucheng Zhang has received the 2019 Morning Light Foundation Scholarship for Outstanding M.S. Student in South California Region

Jiaqi Song has received the 2019 UCLA Engineering Commencement Awards for Outstanding M.S. Students.

Prof.Ximin He has been awarded Hellman Fellows Award (2018)

Optical sensing of chemical and biological molecules-Photo-responsive materials for optics, photonics, waveguides, and photo-harvesting

Living organisms exhibit unique homeostatic abilities, maintaining tight control of their local environment through inter-conversions of chemical and mechanical energy and self-regulating feedback loops organized hierarchically across many length scales. Inspired by this, we have applied the concept of homeostasis to the design of autonomous materials and created a synthetic homeostatic material

The newest 3D printing system that we are building is able to print hybrid materials. Combining with our stimuli-responsive polymer research, 3D printing techniques will allow us to print out soft robotics, investigate its practical uses and provide the foundation for developing applications of self-regulated and bio-inspired photosensitive materials as well.