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Tayler S. Hebner

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Early career · publishing since 2019Rising activity
Advanced Materials and MechanicsAdvanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsPolymer composites and self-healingLiquid Crystal Research AdvancementsHydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications

Publications

22

Citations

615

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

8

Publishing since 2019

Research summary
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Tayler S. Hebner works on designing and controlling advanced soft materials, particularly hydrogels and liquid crystalline elastomers, which are stimuli-responsive polymer networks that can change shape or degrade in programmable ways. This research combines polymer chemistry with materials science to create materials for applications such as tissue engineering, shape-changing (soft robotic-like) structures, and biomedical scaffolds. The work spans both fundamental studies of polymer network chemistry and applied studies relevant to biomedical and structural materials.

Hydrogels and tissue engineering scaffoldsLiquid crystalline elastomers and shape-changing materialsPolymer network chemistry and dynamic/reversible bondingPhotochemical and radical-mediated control of material propertiesSoft matter mechanics and structural behavior

Publication output grew from essentially none in 2017-2018 to a peak of about 4-5 papers per year in 2022-2024, suggesting a steadily active and productive recent research program.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.4/year recently
17182019: 1 publication192020: 1 publication202021: 3 publications212022: 4 publications222023: 5 publications5232024: 4 publications242025: 2 publications252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Macromolecules×3
  • Advanced Science×2
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×2
  • Environmental Science Processes & Impacts×1
  • Science Advances×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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