Pei Liu
Pei Liu

Pei Liu

Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering
Rice University

I study the mechanics of soft materials and bioelectronics. I love solid mechanics and playing volleyball.

Education

2024–Present
Rice University — Ph.D. student, Mechanical EngineeringAdvisor: Raudel Avila
2023
Johns Hopkins University — Research Assistant, Mechanical EngineeringAdvisor: Sung Hoon Kang
2020–2024
Dalian University of Technology — B.S., Engineering MechanicsAdvisor: Yiqiang Wang

Mechanics of Functional Materials and Structures

Deformation and instability for functional structures and fluid transport.

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Water propelled upward from a deformable structure during a fluid transport experiment.

Mechanics of Transient Systems

Mechanics and function of materials and devices as they degrade.

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Experimental images and computational models of a transient device at days 0, 20, and 40, showing progressive degradation.

Mechanics of Bioelectronics and Wireless Systems

Coupled mechanics and electrical function in soft electronic systems.

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A stretchable electronic structure held by gloved fingers alongside a simulation showing its strain distribution under stretching.

In the news

Publications

2026:

  1. Pei Liu, Ali Garmroudi, Zhengwei Li, Raudel Avila. System-level transient simulation of bioresorbable and flexible electronic circuits. npj Flexible Electronics (2026). Article in press.

  2. Yeonhee Heo†, Pei Liu†, Jeongmin Yoo†, Jae Hyuk Hwang, Gooyoon Chung, Dong-Gyun Kim, Raudel Avila, Yoonseok Park. Physical Anchoring-Assisted Mechanically Guided Assembly for Material-Independent 3D Mesostructures. Small 22, e74211 (2026).

  3. Rajaram Kaveti†, Akshay Bhardwaj†, Pei Liu†, Ayemeh Bagheri Hashkavayi†, Bhavya Jain, Adrian Rodriguez-Kattan, Mahaboobbatcha Aleem, Baha Erim Uzunoğlu, Gurudatt N. G., Bünyamin Şahin, Veena Misra, Raudel Avila, Abraham Vázquez-Guardado, Amay J. Bandodkar. Safe, high-performance, moisture-activated batteries for powering next-generation Internet-of-Things devices. Science Advances 12, eaee2065 (2026).

  4. Gooyoon Chung†, Jeongmin Yoo†, Pei Liu†, Gyuri Shin, Dongkyu Jeong, Sunjin Lee, Jae-Young Yoo, Sang Min Won, Dong-Soo Han, Ji-Hoon Kim, Wooseok Song, Raudel Avila, Yoonseok Park. Magnetically levitated metasurface enabling tangible and bidirectional human-machine interaction. Science Advances 12, eaeg0480 (2026).

  5. Navya Mishra, Rajaram Kaveti, Pei Liu, Baha Erim Uzunoglu, Aram Mirabedini, Anna Tran, Z. Begum Yagci, Tyler Johnson, Parvez Ahmmed, Qiuli Wang, Jeong Yong Kim, Paris Brown, Surjendu Maity, Shyni Varghese, Michael D. Dickey, Yong Zhu, Alper Bozkurt, Raudel Avila, Albert J. Keung, Amay J. Bandodkar. Carbon nanotube microelectrode arrays enable scalable and accessible electrophysiological recordings of cerebral organoids. npj Biosensing 3, 20 (2026).

  6. Xu Guo†, Raudel Avila†, Ziqi Wu, Xinning Wang, Peixin Xu, Pengbin Ju, Qinzhe Yang, Pei Liu, Sherry Choi, Nikitsin Andrei, Zhaoqian Xie. Stimulation Modalities in Wearable Haptic Systems: Single-Mode Feedback to Multiphysics Actuation. Research 9, 1192 (2026).

2025:

  1. Pei Liu, Chihtong Lee, Nicole Carusetta, Raudel Avila. Transient Mechanics: A Perspective on Bioresorbable Electronics. Journal of Applied Mechanics 92, 051007 (2025).

† Equal contribution.