A Near‐Infrared Photoactuator Based on Shape Memory Semicrystalline Polymers toward Light‐Fueled Crane, Grasper, and Walker

Millisecond Response of Shape Memory Polymer Nanocomposite Aerogel Powered by Stretchable Graphene Framework

(2019) Fan Guo et al.   ACS Nano

Polydopamine-Coated Main-Chain Liquid Crystal Elastomer as Optically Driven Artificial Muscle

(2018) Hongmiao Tian et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Untethered Recyclable Tubular Actuators with Versatile Locomotion for Soft Continuum Robots

(2018) Xiaojie Qian et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Liquid-Crystalline Dynamic Networks Doped with Gold Nanorods Showing Enhanced Photocontrol of Actuation

(2018) Xili Lu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Shape Memory Polymers for Body Motion Energy Harvesting and Self-Powered Mechanosensing

(2018) Ruiyuan Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Fascinating Metallo-Supramolecular Polymer Network with Thermal/Magnetic/Light-Responsive Shape-Memory Effects Anchored by Fe3O4 Nanoparticles

(2018) Lan Du et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Layered liquid crystal elastomer actuators

(2018) Tyler Guin et al.   Nature Communications

Soft Materials Driven by Photothermal Effect and Their Applications

(2018) Hari Krishna Bisoyi et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Programming a crystalline shape memory polymer network with thermo- and photo-reversible bonds toward a single-component soft robot

(2018) Binjie Jin et al.   Science Advances

Carbon-Based Photothermal Actuators

(2018) Bing Han et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

In-built thermo-mechanical cooperative feedback mechanism for self-propelled multimodal locomotion and electricity generation

(2018) Xiao-Qiao Wang et al.   Nature Communications

An Anisotropic Hydrogel Actuator Enabling Earthworm-Like Directed Peristaltic Crawling

(2018) Zhifang Sun et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photomodulated Tricolor-Changing Artificial Flowers

(2018) Bo Zuo et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Self-assembled nematic colloidal motors powered by light

(2018) Ye Yuan et al.   Nature Communications

Reconfigurable photoactuator through synergistic use of photochemical and photothermal effects

(2018) Markus Lahikainen et al.   Nature Communications

Near-Infrared Chromophore Functionalized Soft Actuator with Ultrafast Photoresponsive Speed and Superior Mechanical Property

(2017) Li Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A light-driven artificial flytrap

(2017) Owies M. Wani et al.   Nature Communications

One-Way Multishape-Memory Effect and Tunable Two-Way Shape Memory Effect of Ionomer Poly(ethylene-co-methacrylic acid)

(2016) Lu Lu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Soft Actuators for Small-Scale Robotics

(2016) Lindsey Hines et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light-Driven Liquid Crystalline Materials: From Photo-Induced Phase Transitions and Property Modulations to Applications

(2016) Hari Krishna Bisoyi et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Flexible, All-Inorganic Actuators Based on Vanadium Dioxide and Carbon Nanotube Bimorphs

(2016) He Ma et al.   NANO LETTERS

A calamitic mesogenic near-infrared absorbing croconaine dye/liquid crystalline elastomer composite

(2016) Ling-Xiang Guo et al.   Chemical Science

A plant tendril mimic soft actuator with phototunable bending and chiral twisting motion modes

(2016) Meng Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Toward a New Generation of Electrically Controllable Hygromorphic Soft Actuators

(2015) Silvia Taccola et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Design, fabrication and control of soft robots

(2015) Daniela Rus et al.   NATURE

Thermoresponsive actuation enabled by permittivity switching in an electrostatically anisotropic hydrogel

(2015) Youn Soo Kim et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

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

Recent progress in shape memory polymer: New behavior, enabling materials, and mechanistic understanding

(2015) Qian Zhao et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Supramolecular free radicals: near-infrared organic materials with enhanced photothermal conversion

(2015) Yang Jiao et al.   Chemical Science

Programmed morphing of liquid crystal networks

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

Triple Shape Memory Effects of Cross-Linked Polyethylene/Polypropylene Blends with Cocontinuous Architecture

(2013) Jun Zhao et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Reversible Bidirectional Shape-Memory Polymers

(2013) Marc Behl et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Polymer-Based Muscle Expansion and Contraction

(2013) Molla R. Islam 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

Tensile Deformation of Polybutene-1 with Stable Form I at Elevated Temperature

(2013) Yaotao Wang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Stretching Temperature Dependency of Lamellar Thickness in Stress-Induced Localized Melting and Recrystallized Polybutene-1

(2013) Yaotao Wang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Light-Controlled Graphene-Elastin Composite Hydrogel Actuators

(2013) Eddie Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Temperature-memory polymer actuators

(2013) M. Behl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Light-Driven Chiral Molecular Switches or Motors in Liquid Crystals

(2012) Yan Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Magnetic Memory Effect of Nanocomposites

(2011) M. Y. Razzaq et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Photocontrollable Liquid-Crystalline Actuators

(2011) Haifeng Yu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Imidazole-promoted acceleration of crosslinking in epoxidized natural rubber/dicarboxylic acid blends

(2011) Myriam Pire et al.   POLYMER

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

(2010) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Thermal behavior of partially hydrogenated polydienes by p-toluenesulfonylhydrazide

(2010) C. K. Santin et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY

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

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

Two-Way Reversible Shape Memory in a Semicrystalline Network

(2007) Taekwoong Chung et al.   MACROMOLECULES