Hao, Menglong https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2359-4978
Li, Menglin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7187-642X
Zou, Ziwen
Kuo, Hsiner https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3489-4414
Bhat, Ashwath https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3146-7478
Li, Xiaobo
Liu, Jie
Wei, Yangbing
Xu, Sheng
Sun, Yiwei
Ding, Hui
Snyder, G. Jeffrey https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1414-8682
Zhong, Wenqi
Dames, Chris https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2660-7607
Article History
Received: 9 January 2025
Accepted: 31 March 2026
First Online: 5 May 2026
Competing interests
: M.H., M.L. and Y.S. are inventors listed on Chinese patent application (ZL202310852275.7) filed by Southeast University, which covers the fabrication of the finger-joint thermal interface reported in this paper. M.H., M.L., Y.S. and W.Z. are inventors listed on Chinese patent application (ZL202511966472.7) filed by Southeast University, which covers the fabrication of plug-in electrical connectors inspired by the mortise–tenon reported in this paper. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.