Caterpillar-Inspired Design and Fabrication of A Self-Walking Actuator with Anisotropy, Gradient, and Instant Response

Biodegradable Self-Folding Polymer Films with Controlled Thermo-Triggered Folding

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Near-Infrared Light-Driven, Highly Efficient Bilayer Actuators Based on Polydopamine-Modified Reduced Graphene Oxide

(2014) Mingyang Ji et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Humidity-Responsive Liquid Crystalline Polymer Actuators with an Asymmetry in the Molecular Trigger That Bend, Fold, and Curl

(2014) Laurens T. de Haan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Accordion-like Actuators of Multiple 3D Patterned Liquid Crystal Polymer Films

(2013) Laurens T. de Haan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Controlled Polymer-Brush Growth from Microliter Volumes using Sacrificial-Anode Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerization

(2013) Junfeng Yan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Polymer-Based Muscle Expansion and Contraction

(2013) Molla R. Islam et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Electrochemically Mediated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization on Nonconducting Substrates: Controlled Brush Growth through Catalyst Diffusion

(2013) Bin Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Dramatically Tuning Friction Using Responsive Polyelectrolyte Brushes

(2013) Qiangbing Wei et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Light-Controlled Graphene-Elastin Composite Hydrogel Actuators

(2013) Eddie Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Stretchable, Transparent, Ionic Conductors

(2013) C. Keplinger et al.   SCIENCE

Bio-Inspired Polymer Composite Actuator and Generator Driven by Water Gradients

(2013) M. Ma et al.   SCIENCE

Three-dimensional shape transformations of hydrogel sheets induced by small-scale modulation of internal stresses

(2013) Zi Liang Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Reversible patterning and actuation of hydrogels by electrically assisted ionoprinting

(2013) Etienne Palleau et al.   Nature Communications

Bio-Origami Hydrogel Scaffolds Composed of Photocrosslinked PEG Bilayers

(2013) Mustapha Jamal et al.   Advanced Healthcare Materials

Shape-Programmed Folding of Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Bilayers

(2012) Georgi Stoychev et al.   ACS Nano

Autonomous, Hands-Free Shape Memory in Glassy, Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks

(2012) Kyung Min Lee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Electrochemically Induced Surface-Initiated Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerization

(2012) Bin Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A tissue-engineered jellyfish with biomimetic propulsion

(2012) Janna C Nawroth et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Expansion–contraction of photoresponsive artificial muscle regulated by host–guest interactions

(2012) Yoshinori Takashima et al.   Nature Communications

Microchemomechanical Systems

(2011) Jatinder S. Randhawa et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Bending and Stretching Actuation of Soft Materials through Surface-Initiated Polymerization

(2011) Yuquan Zou et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Optically- and Thermally-Responsive Programmable Materials Based on Carbon Nanotube-Hydrogel Polymer Composites

(2011) Xiaobo Zhang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Origami-like unfolding of hydro-actuated ice plant seed capsules

(2011) Matthew J. Harrington et al.   Nature Communications

An Asymmetrically Surface-Modified Graphene Film Electrochemical Actuator

(2010) Xuejun Xie et al.   ACS Nano

Directional Roll-up of Nanomembranes Mediated by Wrinkling

(2010) Peter Cendula et al.   NANO LETTERS

Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials

(2010) Martien A. Cohen Stuart et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Polymer Brushes via Surface-Initiated Controlled Radical Polymerization: Synthesis, Characterization, Properties, and Applications

(2009) Raphael Barbey et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Actuation systems in plants as prototypes for bioinspired devices

(2009) I. Burgert et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Tetherless thermobiochemically actuated microgrippers

(2009) Timothy G. Leong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Polyelectrolyte Brush Amplified Electroactuation of Microcantilevers

(2008) Feng Zhou et al.   NANO LETTERS