Tough, Self‐Healing Hydrogels Capable of Ultrafast Shape Changing

Dynamic Covalent Bonds in Polymeric Materials

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Recent Progress in Biomimetic Anisotropic Hydrogel Actuators

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Reprogrammable recovery and actuation behaviour of shape-memory polymers

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Transformer Hydrogels: A Review

(2019) Ozan Erol et al.   Advanced Materials Technologies

Ultrastiff and Tough Supramolecular Hydrogels with a Dense and Robust Hydrogen Bond Network

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Ultrafast Fabrication of Gradient Nanoporous All‐Polysaccharide Films as Strong, Superfast, and Multiresponsive Actuators

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Mechanically Robust and Recyclable Cross-Linked Fibers from Melt Blown Anthracene-Functionalized Commodity Polymers

(2019) Kailong Jin et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

A Highly Efficient Self‐Healing Elastomer with Unprecedented Mechanical Properties

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Inorganic Salts Induce Thermally Reversible and Anti-Freezing Cellulose Hydrogels

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Using Synergistic Multiple Dynamic Bonds to Construct Polymers with Engineered Properties

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Dual-gradient enabled ultrafast biomimetic snapping of hydrogel materials

(2019) Wenxin Fan et al.   Science Advances

Tailoring the Shape and Size of Artificial Cells

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Anisotropic and self-healing hydrogels with multi-responsive actuating capability

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Ultrathin Shape Change Smart Materials

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Dual Salt- and Thermoresponsive Programmable Bilayer Hydrogel Actuators with Pseudo-Interpenetrating Double-Network Structures

(2018) Shengwei Xiao et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Polyampholyte Hydrogels with pH Modulated Shape Memory and Spontaneous Actuation

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Combining 3D Printing with Electrospinning for Rapid Response and Enhanced Designability of Hydrogel Actuators

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4D Biofabrication: 3D Cell Patterning Using Shape-Changing Films

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Cooling-Triggered Shapeshifting Hydrogels with Multi-Shape Memory Performance

(2018) Xiaobo Hu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Highly Elastic and Ultratough Hybrid Ionic-Covalent Hydrogels with Tunable Structures and Mechanics

(2018) Yanyu Yang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Tough and Water-Insensitive Self-Healing Elastomer for Robust Electronic Skin

(2018) Jiheong Kang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Soft Robotics

(2018) George M. Whitesides   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Multifunctional Dye-doped Liquid Crystal Polymer Actuator: Light-guided Transportation, Turning in Locomotion and Autonomous Motion

(2018) Feijie Ge et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Actuating and memorizing bilayer hydrogels for a self-deformed shape memory function

(2018) Li Wang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Ca2+, redox, and thermoresponsive supramolecular hydrogel with programmed quadruple shape memory effect

(2018) Linya Tang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Quadruple H-Bonding Cross-Linked Supramolecular Polymeric Materials as Substrates for Stretchable, Antitearing, and Self-Healable Thin Film Electrodes

(2018) Xuzhou Yan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Fast, Reversible, and Robust Gradient Nanocomposite Hydrogel Actuator with Water-Promoted Thermal Response

(2018) Yun Tan et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Tough, Swelling-Resistant, Self-Healing, and Adhesive Dual-Cross-Linked Hydrogels Based on Polymer–Tannic Acid Multiple Hydrogen Bonds

(2018) Hailong Fan et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Programming the shape-shifting of flat soft matter

(2018) Teunis van Manen et al.   Materials Today

3D-printing of dynamic self-healing cryogels with tuneable properties

(2018) Milena Nadgorny et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Polymer engineering based on reversible covalent chemistry: A promising innovative pathway towards new materials and new functionalities

(2018) Ze Ping Zhang et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Spin-coating-assisted fabrication of ultrathin physical hydrogel films with high toughness and fast response

(2018) Si Yu Zheng et al.   Soft Matter

Super tough magnetic hydrogels for remotely triggered shape morphing

(2018) Jingda Tang et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Stretchable Multiresponsive Hydrogel with Actuatable, Shape Memory, and Self-Healing Properties

(2018) Feng Zhang et al.   Advanced Science

Carbon-Based Photothermal Actuators

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Programmed Deformations of 3D-Printed Tough Physical Hydrogels with High Response Speed and Large Output Force

(2018) Si Yu Zheng et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Colorless, Transparent, Robust, and Fast Scratch-Self-Healing Elastomers via a Phase-Locked Dynamic Bonds Design

(2018) Yue Lai et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Towards Dynamic but Supertough Healable Polymers through Biomimetic Hierarchical Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions

(2018) Yan Song et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

3D shape change of multi-responsive hydrogels based on a light-programmed gradient in volume phase transition

(2018) Zhen Jiang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Tough responsive hydrogels and applications as smart devices

(2018) Jun Fu   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Bioinspired 3D structures with programmable morphologies and motions

(2018) Amirali Nojoomi et al.   Nature Communications

Exploring a naturally tailored small molecule for stretchable, self-healing, and adhesive supramolecular polymers

(2018) Qi Zhang et al.   Science Advances

Rapid Recovery Hydrogel Actuators in Air with Bionic Large-Ranged Gradient Structure

(2018) Yun Tan et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

An Anisotropic Hydrogel Actuator Enabling Earthworm-Like Directed Peristaltic Crawling

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

CO2 -Cross-Linked Frustrated Lewis Networks as Gas-Regulated Dynamic Covalent Materials

(2018) Liang Chen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Hydrogels with a Memory: Dual-Responsive, Organometallic Poly(ionic liquid)s with Hysteretic Volume-Phase Transition

(2017) Kaihuan Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Aqueous solution behaviour of novel water-soluble amphiphilic copolymers with elevated hydrophobic unit content

(2017) Zhen Jiang et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Bioinspired fabrication of high strength hydrogels from non-covalent interactions

(2017) Wei Wang et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Ultrastretchable, Self-Healable Hydrogels Based on Dynamic Covalent Bonding and Triblock Copolymer Micellization

(2017) Peng Wang et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Reprogrammable ultra-fast shape-transformation of macroporous composite hydrogel sheets

(2017) Hongyu Guo et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry B

A Multiresponsive Anisotropic Hydrogel with Macroscopic 3D Complex Deformations

(2016) Chunxin Ma et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Ultrafast Digital Printing toward 4D Shape Changing Materials

(2016) Limei Huang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Self-Healing Hydrogels

(2016) Danielle Lynne Taylor et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Control of Imine Exchange Kinetics with Photoswitches to Modulate Self-Healing in Polysiloxane Networks by Light Illumination

(2016) Michael Kathan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Programmable Volume Phase Transition of Hydrogels Achieved by Large Thermal Hysteresis for Static-Motion Bilayer Actuators

(2016) Dowan Kim et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Conformation Transitions of Thermoresponsive Dendronized Polymers across the Lower Critical Solution Temperature

(2016) Cheng Zhang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Photocontrol of fluid slugs in liquid crystal polymer microactuators

(2016) Jiu-an Lv et al.   NATURE

Fast response dry-type artificial molecular muscles with [c2]daisy chains

(2016) Kazuhisa Iwaso et al.   Nature Chemistry

Biomimetic 4D printing

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

“ 2D or not 2D”: Shape-programming polymer sheets

(2016) Ying Liu et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Tough Al-alginate/Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Hydrogel with Tunable LCST for Soft Robotics

(2015) Wen Jiang Zheng et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Shape-Switching Microrobots for Medical Applications: The Influence of Shape in Drug Delivery and Locomotion

(2015) Stefano Fusco et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Strategies and Molecular Design Criteria for 3D Printable Hydrogels

(2015) Tomasz Jungst et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

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

Enhancing Mechanical Performance of a Covalent Self-Healing Material by Sacrificial Noncovalent Bonds

(2015) James A. Neal et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

4D Printing with Mechanically Robust, Thermally Actuating Hydrogels

(2015) Shannon E. Bakarich et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Conformation of Hydrophobically Modified Thermoresponsive Poly(OEGMA-co-TFEA) across the LCST Revealed by NMR and Molecular Dynamics Studies

(2015) Cheng Zhang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Spatially resolved multicomponent gels

(2015) Emily R. Draper et al.   Nature Chemistry

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

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

Supramolecular Lego Assembly Towards Three-Dimensional Multi-Responsive Hydrogels

(2014) Chunxin Ma et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

NMR investigation of effect of dissolved salts on the thermoresponsive behavior of oligo(ethylene glycol)-methacrylate-based polymers

(2014) Cheng Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY

Tough Stimuli-Responsive Supramolecular Hydrogels with Hydrogen-Bonding Network Junctions

(2014) Mingyu Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Biomimetic Hydrogel-Based Actuating Systems

(2013) Leonid Ionov   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Multiple Shape Transformations of Composite Hydrogel Sheets

(2013) Héloïse Thérien-Aubin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

Light-Controlled Graphene-Elastin Composite Hydrogel Actuators

(2013) Eddie Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Physical hydrogels composed of polyampholytes demonstrate high toughness and viscoelasticity

(2013) Tao Lin Sun et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Mouldable liquid-crystalline elastomer actuators with exchangeable covalent bonds

(2013) Zhiqiang Pei et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

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

(2013) Zi Liang Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Nano-structured smart hydrogels with rapid response and high elasticity

(2013) Lie-Wen Xia et al.   Nature Communications

Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels

(2012) Jeong-Yun Sun et al.   NATURE

Poly(vinyl alcohol) Hydrogel Can Autonomously Self-Heal

(2012) Hongji Zhang et al.   ACS Macro Letters

A pH-sensitive, strong double-network hydrogel: Poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylates-poly(acrylic acid)

(2011) Sina Naficy et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Using the dynamic bond to access macroscopically responsive structurally dynamic polymers

(2010) Rudy J. Wojtecki et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Why are double network hydrogels so tough?

(2010) Jian Ping Gong   Soft Matter

RAFT copolymerization of methacrylic acid and poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate in the presence of a hydrophobic chain transfer agent in organic solution and in water

(2009) David Rinaldi et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY

Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Nanocomposites Inspired by the Sea Cucumber Dermis

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