Scaling up nanoscale water-driven energy conversion into evaporation-driven engines and generators

Moisture-Activated Torsional Graphene-Fiber Motor

(2014) Huhu Cheng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Evaporative microclimate driven hygrometers and hygromotors

(2014) Jun Young Chung et al.   EPL

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

Bacillus spores as building blocks for stimuli-responsive materials and nanogenerators

(2014) Xi Chen et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Bio-Hybrid Cell-Based Actuators for Microsystems

(2014) Rika Wright Carlsen et al.   Small

Asymmetric water diffusion driven nanotube actuator

(2014) Atikur Rahman et al.   RSC Advances

Humidity-Responsive Bilayer Actuators Based on a Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Network

(2013) Mian Dai et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

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

(2013) M. Ma et al.   SCIENCE

Bioinspired Hygromorphic Actuator Exhibiting Controlled Locomotion

(2013) Sang-Wook Lee et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Evaporation-induced cavitation in nanofluidic channels

(2012) C. Duan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films for Building Energetic Walking Devices

(2011) Ying Ma et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Spider silk as a novel high performance biomimetic muscle driven by humidity

(2009) I. Agnarsson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Hygromorphs: from pine cones to biomimetic bilayers

(2009) E. Reyssat et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Biomaterial systems for mechanosensing and actuation

(2009) Peter Fratzl et al.   NATURE

Graphene-Based Actuators

(2009) Sungjin Park et al.   Small

Wet and dry density ofBacillus anthracisand otherBacillusspecies

(2008) M. Carrera et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

The transpiration of water at negative pressures in a synthetic tree

(2008) Tobias D. Wheeler et al.   NATURE