Personal profile
Research interests
Mechanics and physics of smart materials and soft matter
- Multi-physics coupling behaviours in smart materials
- Energy conversion behaviours in smart materials
- Instability behaviours in soft materials
- Multi-scale modelling for material behaviours
- Design and development of novel smart materials and structures for energy applications
- Design, modelling and optimization of smart-materials-based flexible devices
Biography
Dr. Xue (Sherry) Chen joined Northumbria University in 2017. She was awarded PhD in Solid Mechanics from École Polytechnique (France) in 2014, after obtaining the Engineer’s Diploma (MEng) from ENSTA ParisTech (France) in 2009 and BEng in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) in 2006. During 2014 ~ 2016, she worked at University of Toronto (Canada) as a postdoctoral researcher.
The research interests of Dr. Chen cover the mechanics and physics of smart materials and soft matter, focusing on studying the energy conversion behaviours of materials, developing multi-scale modelling tools, and designing and modelling smart-materials-based flexible sensors, actuators, energy harvesters, etc.
Education/Academic qualification
Engineering, PhD
1 Oct 2009 → 25 Jun 2013
Award Date: 18 Jun 2014
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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A Natural Lignification Inspired Super-Hard Wood-based Composites with Extreme Resilience
Huang, Y., Jiang, K., He, Y., Hu, J., Dyer, K., Chen, S., Akinlabi, E., Zhang, D., Zhang, X., Yu, Y., Yu, W. & Xu, B. B., 12 May 2025, In: Advanced Materials. 37, 19, 11 p., 2502266.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Semi-transparent Strong Biomimetic Wound Healing Material: Zinc Oxide and Sodium Alginate Based Bi-layer Nanofiber Membrane
Kuddushi, M., Kumar, T., Wu, H., Chen, S., Xu, B. B., Malek, N., Unsworth, L. D., Xu, J., Zhang, J., Wang, X. & Zhang, X., 20 Feb 2025, In: Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials. 8, 2, 13 p., 179.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Key mechanisms to mechanically improve polyacrylamide-based hydrogels
Liu, J., Chen, X., Zhang, C., Maitournam, H. & He, Y., 1 Aug 2025, In: Journal of Polymer Science. 63, 15, p. 3214-3228 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Soft Gel-Based Transformative Structured Engineering Design
Jiang, K., Chen, S., Dai, C. & Xu, B. B., 26 Dec 2025, In: Accounts of Materials Research. 6, 12, p. 1422-1434 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Stability of propagating Austenite-Martensite interface in Ni-Mn-Ga single crystal
Gao, X., Zhang, C., Chen, S., Brisset, F., Hubert, O. & He, Y., 10 Aug 2025, In: Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1037, 17 p., 182344.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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