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The Formation and Evolution of Creased Morphologies Using Reactive Diffusion in Ultrathin Polymer Brush Platforms

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Dynamic Polymeric Microtubes for the Remote-Controlled Capture, Guidance, and Release of Sperm Cells

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An integrated design and fabrication strategy for entirely soft, autonomous robots

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Optogenetic skeletal muscle-powered adaptive biological machines

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Electrotonic coupling of excitable and nonexcitable cells in the heart revealed by optogenetics

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Hybrid-Actuating Macrophage-Based Microrobots for Active Cancer Therapy

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Mechanical Self-Assembly of a Strain-Engineered Flexible Layer: Wrinkling, Rolling, and Twisting

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

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Reversible Morphological Transformation between Polymer Nanocapsules and Thin Films through Dynamic Covalent Self-Assembly

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Stimuli-Responsive Microjets with Reconfigurable Shape

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Motility and more: the flagellum of Trypanosoma brucei

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Three-dimensionally printed biological machines powered by skeletal muscle

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Rapid evolution of a native species following invasion by a congener

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A self-propelled biohybrid swimmer at low Reynolds number

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Self-assembled insect muscle bioactuators with long term function under a range of environmental conditions

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Development of a Sperm-Flagella Driven Micro-Bio-Robot

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Engineered Nanomembranes for Directing Cellular Organization Toward Flexible Biodevices

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Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics

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Local Switching of Chemical Patterns through Light-Triggered Unfolding of Creased Hydrogel Surfaces

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A tissue-engineered jellyfish with biomimetic propulsion

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Nonlinear Geometric Effects in Mechanical Bistable Morphing Structures

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Deep-tissue anatomical imaging of mice using carbon nanotube fluorophores in the second near-infrared window

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