Light-Mediated Manufacture and Manipulation of Actuators

Multimodal Nonlinear Optical Imaging of MoS2 and MoS2-Based van der Waals Heterostructures

(2016) Dawei Li et al.   ACS Nano

Biomimetic 4D printing

(2016) A. Sydney Gladman et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Optical Pendulum Generator Based on Photomechanical Liquid-Crystalline Actuators

(2015) Rong Tang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Increasing Efficiency, Speed, and Responsivity of Vanadium Dioxide Based Photothermally Driven Actuators Using Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Thin-Films

(2015) Tongyu Wang et al.   ACS Nano

Laser Trapping of Colloidal Metal Nanoparticles

(2015) Anni Lehmuskero et al.   ACS Nano

Gradient Porous Elastic Hydrogels with Shape-Memory Property and Anisotropic Responses for Programmable Locomotion

(2015) Rongcong Luo et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Bioinspired Graphene Actuators Prepared by Unilateral UV Irradiation of Graphene Oxide Papers

(2015) Dong-Dong Han et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Magnetic Helical Microswimmers Functionalized with Lipoplexes for Targeted Gene Delivery

(2015) Famin Qiu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A Graphene-Based Bimorph Structure for Design of High Performance Photoactuators

(2015) Ying Hu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Buckling of Elastomeric Beams Enables Actuation of Soft Machines

(2015) Dian Yang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Nanoarchitectonics for Dynamic Functional Materials from Atomic-/Molecular-Level Manipulation to Macroscopic Action

(2015) Katsuhiko Ariga et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photothermally Reprogrammable Buckling of Nanocomposite Gel Sheets

(2015) Adam W. Hauser et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Light- and Humidity-Induced Motion of an Acidochromic Film

(2015) Lidong Zhang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Self-folding graphene-polymer bilayers

(2015) Tao Deng et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Photoreversible current ON/OFF switching by the photoinduced bending of gold-coated diarylethene crystals

(2015) Daichi Kitagawa et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Molecular Design of Light-Responsive Hydrogels, For in Situ Generation of Fast and Reversible Valves for Microfluidic Applications

(2015) Jeroen ter Schiphorst et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Photoinduced Bending of Self-Assembled Azobenzene–Siloxane Hybrid

(2015) Sufang Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Optical trapping and manipulation of micrometer and submicrometer particles

(2015) Mark Daly et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Photosensitive Functionalized Surface-Modified Quantum Dots for Polymeric Structures via Two-Photon-Initiated Polymerization Technique

(2015) Redouane Krini et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Electrochemical nanoarchitectonics and layer-by-layer assembly: From basics to future

(2015) Gaulthier Rydzek et al.   Nano Today

A light-driven supramolecular nanowire actuator

(2015) Junho Lee et al.   Nanoscale

Origami structures with a critical transition to bistability arising from hidden degrees of freedom

(2015) Jesse L. Silverberg et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

(2015) Timothy J. White et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Long-range and rapid transport of individual nano-objects by a hybrid electrothermoplasmonic nanotweezer

(2015) Justus C. Ndukaife et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Reverse switching of surface roughness in a self-organized polydomain liquid crystal coating

(2015) Danqing Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A 3D-printed, functionally graded soft robot powered by combustion

(2015) N. W. Bartlett et al.   SCIENCE

Micromotors with asymmetric shape that efficiently convert light into work by thermocapillary effects

(2015) Claudio Maggi et al.   Nature Communications

A supramolecular assembly of cross-linked azobenzene/polymers for a high-performance light-driven actuator

(2015) Chengqun Qin et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Solvent-tunable PDMS microlens fabricated by femtosecond laser direct writing

(2015) Dong-Xiao Lu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

A reactive azobenzene liquid-crystalline block copolymer as a promising material for practical application of light-driven soft actuators

(2015) Jiu-an Lv et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Photomobile materials with interpenetrating polymer networks composed of liquid-crystalline and amorphous polymers

(2015) T. Ube et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Ultrafast photonic PCR

(2015) Jun Ho Son et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Bioinspired optical antennas: gold plant viruses

(2015) SoonGweon Hong et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Origami-inspired active graphene-based paper for programmable instant self-folding walking devices

(2015) J. Mu et al.   Science Advances

Photoswitchable Ratchet Surface Topographies Based on Self-Protonating Spiropyran–NIPAAM Hydrogels

(2014) Jelle E. Stumpel et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Shape-Responsive Actuator from a Single Layer of a Liquid-Crystal Polymer

(2014) Tahseen Kamal et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Surface-Plasmon-Mediated Programmable Optical Nanofabrication of an Oriented Silver Nanoplate

(2014) Bin-Bin Xu et al.   ACS Nano

Photoresponsive Soft-Robotic Platform: Biomimetic Fabrication and Remote Actuation

(2014) Weitao Jiang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Moisture-Responsive Graphene Paper Prepared by Self-Controlled Photoreduction

(2014) Dong-Dong Han et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Programming Reversibly Self-Folding Origami with Micropatterned Photo-Crosslinkable Polymer Trilayers

(2014) Jun-Hee Na et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Self-assembled Dynamic 3D Fingerprints in Liquid-Crystal Coatings Towards Controllable Friction and Adhesion

(2014) Danqing Liu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photodeformable polymer materials: towards light-driven spoke-type micromotor application

(2014) Yutian Zhu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING

Stimuli-responsive photonic polymer coatings

(2014) Jelle E. Stumpel et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Photochromism of Diarylethene Molecules and Crystals: Memories, Switches, and Actuators

(2014) Masahiro Irie et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Stimuli-responsive buckling mechanics of polymer films

(2014) Dayong Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Mechanism of Photoinduced Bending and Twisting in Crystalline Microneedles and Microribbons Composed of 9-Methylanthracene

(2014) Taehyung Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Model for Photoinduced Bending of Slender Molecular Crystals

(2014) Naba K. Nath et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Dynamic laser prototyping for biomimetic nanofabrication

(2014) Dong-Xu Liu et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Selective Trapping or Rotation of Isotropic Dielectric Microparticles by Optical Near Field in a Plasmonic Archimedes Spiral

(2014) Wei-Yi Tsai et al.   NANO LETTERS

Self-Folding Single Cell Grippers

(2014) Kate Malachowski et al.   NANO LETTERS

Bioactive nanocarbon assemblies: Nanoarchitectonics and applications

(2014) Waka Nakanishi et al.   Nano Today

Conversion of light into macroscopic helical motion

(2014) Supitchaya Iamsaard et al.   Nature Chemistry

Quantitative imaging of single mRNA splice variants in living cells

(2014) Kyuwan Lee et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Photochemical reaction in azobenzene-containing rigid poly(amide acid) networks

(2014) Daichi Kusano et al.   POLYMER

Programmed morphing of liquid crystal networks

(2014) Laurens T. de Haan et al.   POLYMER

Shape-Shifting 3D Protein Microstructures with Programmable Directionality via Quantitative Nanoscale Stiffness Modulation

(2014) Mian Rong Lee et al.   Small

Design of a UV-responsive microactuator on a smart device for light-induced ON-OFF-ON motion

(2014) Meng Xiao et al.   NPG Asia Materials

Photomechanical bending of linear azobenzene polymer

(2014) Hongying Wen et al.   RSC Advances

Enhancement of mechanical stability in hydrogen-bonded photomobile materials with chemically modified single-walled carbon nanotubes

(2014) Tetsuya Ozawa et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Protein-based soft micro-optics fabricated by femtosecond laser direct writing

(2014) Yun-Lu Sun et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Light scattering and surface plasmons on small spherical particles

(2014) Xiaofeng Fan et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Design and Characterization of Molecular Nonlinear Optical Switches

(2013) Frédéric Castet et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

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

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

Hybrid Nanoscale Organic Molecular Crystals Assembly as a Photon-Controlled Actuator

(2013) Tian Lan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photoinduced Curling of Organic Molecular Crystal Nanowires

(2013) Taehyung Kim et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Wavelength-Selective, IR Light-Driven Hinges Based on Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Composites

(2013) Ryan R. Kohlmeyer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Graphene Fibers with Predetermined Deformation as Moisture-Triggered Actuators and Robots

(2013) Huhu Cheng et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A liquid crystal polymer based single layer chemo-responsive actuator

(2013) Tahseen Kamal et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Enzyme nanoarchitectonics: organization and device application

(2013) Katsuhiko Ariga et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Spiropyran-based dynamic materials

(2013) Rafal Klajn   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Light-Driven Bending Crystals of Salicylidenephenylethylamines in Enantiomeric and Racemate Forms

(2013) Hideko Koshima et al.   CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN

Red-Light-Controllable Liquid-Crystal Soft Actuators via Low-Power Excited Upconversion Based on Triplet–Triplet Annihilation

(2013) Zhen Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Gearing up for optical microrobotics: micromanipulation and actuation of synthetic microstructures by optical forces

(2013) Darwin Palima et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Optical trapping and manipulation of nanostructures

(2013) Onofrio M. Maragò et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Alkyl substituent effects in photochemical and thermal reactions of photochromic thiophene-S,S-dioxidized diarylethenes

(2013) Hiroaki Shoji et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Environmentally Responsive Graphene Systems

(2013) Jing Zhang et al.   Small

Swelling-driven rolling and anisotropic expansion of striped gel sheets

(2013) Myunghwan Byun et al.   Soft Matter

Design of polarization-dependent, flexural–torsional deformation in photo responsive liquid crystalline polymer networks

(2013) Matthew L. Smith et al.   Soft Matter

Plasmon-enhanced photocurrent generation and water oxidation from visible to near-infrared wavelengths

(2013) Kosei Ueno et al.   NPG Asia Materials

Photoreduction of Graphene Oxides: Methods, Properties, and Applications

(2013) Yong-Lai Zhang et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Programmable assembly of CdTe quantum dots into microstructures by femtosecond laser direct writing

(2013) Bin-Bin Xu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Magnetic Helical Micromachines: Fabrication, Controlled Swimming, and Cargo Transport

(2012) Soichiro Tottori et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Biopsy with Thermally-Responsive Untethered Microtools

(2012) Evin Gultepe et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Functional Organic Materials Based on Polymerized Liquid-Crystal Monomers: Supramolecular Hydrogen-Bonded Systems

(2012) Dirk J. Broer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photoinduced Deformation of Crosslinked Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Film Oriented by a Highly Aligned Carbon Nanotube Sheet

(2012) Wei Wang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Light to work transduction and shape memory in glassy, photoresponsive macromolecular systems: Trends and opportunities

(2012) Timothy J. White   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Remote, Local, and Chemical Programming of Healable Multishape Memory Polymer Nanocomposites

(2012) Ryan R. Kohlmeyer et al.   NANO LETTERS

Giant-Amplitude, High-Work Density Microactuators with Phase Transition Activated Nanolayer Bimorphs

(2012) Kai Liu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Designing Responsive Buckled Surfaces by Halftone Gel Lithography

(2012) Jungwook Kim et al.   SCIENCE

Photodeformable polymer gels and crosslinked liquid-crystalline polymers

(2012) Jia Wei et al.   Soft Matter

Photo-switchable control of pH-responsive actuators via pH jump reaction

(2012) Prapatsorn Techawanitchai et al.   Soft Matter

Thermally responsive rolling of thin gel strips with discrete variations in swelling

(2012) Jungwook Kim et al.   Soft Matter

Forming nanomaterials as layered functional structures toward materials nanoarchitectonics

(2012) Katsuhiko Ariga et al.   NPG Asia Materials

Plasmonic Antenna Effects on Photochemical Reactions

(2011) Shuyan Gao et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Photodriven, Flexural-Torsional Oscillation of Glassy Azobenzene Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

(2011) Kyung Min Lee et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Mechanical Control of Nanomaterials and Nanosystems

(2011) Katsuhiko Ariga et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photocontrollable Liquid-Crystalline Actuators

(2011) Haifeng Yu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light-Driven Molecular-Crystal Actuators: Rapid and Reversible Bending of Rodlike Mixed Crystals of Diarylethene Derivatives

(2011) Fumitaka Terao et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Dynamically Tunable Protein Microlenses

(2011) Yun-Lu Sun et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photomechanical bending of salicylideneaniline crystals

(2011) Hideko Koshima et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Large-area graphene realizing ultrasensitive photothermal actuator with high transparency: new prototype robotic motions under infrared-light stimuli

(2011) Changzheng Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

NIR-Light-Induced Deformation of Cross-Linked Liquid-Crystal Polymers Using Upconversion Nanophosphors

(2011) Wei Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Reversible Photoinduced Twisting of Molecular Crystal Microribbons

(2011) Lingyan Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Optical Force Stamping Lithography

(2011) Spas Nedev et al.   NANO LETTERS

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

(2011) Xiaobo Zhang et al.   NANO LETTERS

A photon-driven micromotor can direct nerve fibre growth

(2011) Tao Wu et al.   Nature Photonics

Tweezers with a twist

(2011) Miles Padgett et al.   Nature Photonics

Solvent response of polymers for micromachine manipulation

(2011) Ye Tian et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Wrinkled Liquid-Crystalline Microparticle-Enhanced Photoresponse of PDLC-Like Films by Coupling with Mechanical Stretching

(2011) Haifeng Yu et al.   Small

Thin-Film-Based Nanoarchitectures for Soft Matter: Controlled Assemblies into Two-Dimensional Worlds

(2011) Keita Sakakibara et al.   Small

Nanoscale Origami for 3D Optics

(2011) Jeong-Hyun Cho et al.   Small

Self-folding of polymer sheets using local light absorption

(2011) Ying Liu et al.   Soft Matter

Self-folding devices and materials for biomedical applications

(2011) Christina L. Randall et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Differentially photo-crosslinked polymers enable self-assembling microfluidics

(2011) Mustapha Jamal et al.   Nature Communications

Ferrofluids for Fabrication of Remotely Controllable Micro-Nanomachines by Two-Photon Polymerization

(2010) Hong Xia et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photodeformable CLCP material: study on photo-activated microvalve applications

(2010) Maolin Chen et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING

Multiple optical trapping and binding: new routes to self-assembly

(2010) T Čižmár et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS

Enzymatically Triggered Actuation of Miniaturized Tools

(2010) Noy Bassik et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Diarylethene Cocrystal that Converts Light into Mechanical Work

(2010) Masakazu Morimoto et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Direct imprinting of microcircuits on graphene oxides film by femtosecond laser reduction

(2010) Yonglai Zhang et al.   Nano Today

Designable 3D nanofabrication by femtosecond laser direct writing

(2010) Yong-Lai Zhang et al.   Nano Today

Tunable polymer multi-shape memory effect

(2010) Tao Xie   NATURE

Optomechanical device actuation through the optical gradient force

(2010) Dries Van Thourhout et al.   Nature Photonics

Fully plastic microrobots which manipulate objects using only visible light

(2010) Futao Cheng et al.   Soft Matter

Can sunlight drive the photoinduced bending of polymer films?

(2009) Ruoyuan Yin et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Surface Tension Mediated Conversion of Light to Work

(2009) David Okawa et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Printed actuators in a flap

(2009) Peter Palffy-Muhoray   NATURE MATERIALS

Printed artificial cilia from liquid-crystal network actuators modularly driven by light

(2009) Casper L. van Oosten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Azobenzene liquid crystal polymer-based membrane and cantilever optical systems

(2009) Svetlana V. Serak et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Liquid crystalline polymer cantilever oscillators fueled by light

(2009) Svetlana Serak et al.   Soft Matter

Photomobile Polymer Materials: Towards Light-Driven Plastic Motors

(2008) Munenori Yamada et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photomobile polymer materials—various three-dimensional movements

(2008) Munenori Yamada et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

The effect of Mie resonances on trapping in optical tweezers

(2008) Alexander B. Stilgoe et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS