Liquid-Crystalline Soft Actuators with Switchable Thermal Reprogrammability

Mechano-Plastic Pyrolysis of Dynamic Covalent Polymer Network toward Hierarchical 3D Ceramics

(2019) Ning Zheng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Recent Progress in Biomimetic Anisotropic Hydrogel Actuators

(2019) Xiaoxia Le et al.   Advanced Science

Reprogrammable recovery and actuation behaviour of shape-memory polymers

(2019) Andreas Lendlein et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Selective Decrosslinking in Liquid Crystal Polymer Actuators for Optical Reconfiguration of Origami and Light-Fueled Locomotion

(2019) Zhi-Chao Jiang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Arbitrarily 3D Configurable Hygroscopic Robots with a Covalent–Noncovalent Interpenetrating Network and Self‐Healing Ability

(2019) Jie Cao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photothermal Bimorph Actuators with In‐Built Cooler for Light Mills, Frequency Switches, and Soft Robots

(2019) Jingjing Li et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Biomimetic Locomotion of Electrically Powered “Janus” Soft Robots Using a Liquid Crystal Polymer

(2019) Yao‐Yu Xiao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Interpenetrating Liquid-Crystal Polyurethane/Polyacrylate Elastomer with Ultrastrong Mechanical Property

(2019) Hai-Feng Lu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Reprocessable Thermoset Soft Actuators

(2019) Yang Yang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Adaptable Crosslinks in Polymeric Materials: Resolving the Intersection of Thermoplastics and Thermosets

(2019) Georg M. Scheutz et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Multi-stimuli-responsive programmable biomimetic actuator

(2019) Yue Dong et al.   Nature Communications

Soft Ultrathin Electronics Innervated Adaptive Fully Soft Robots

(2018) Chengjun Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Untethered Recyclable Tubular Actuators with Versatile Locomotion for Soft Continuum Robots

(2018) Xiaojie Qian et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Soft Robotics

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

Instant Locking of Molecular Ordering in Liquid Crystal Elastomers by Oxygen-Mediated Thiol-Acrylate Click Reactions

(2018) Yu Xia et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

PDMS with designer functionalities—Properties, modifications strategies, and applications

(2018) Marc P. Wolf et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Reprogrammable, magnetically controlled polymeric nanocomposite actuators

(2018) Li Wang et al.   Materials Horizons

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

A readily programmable, fully reversible shape-switching material

(2018) Matthew K. McBride et al.   Science Advances

Reconfigurable photoactuator through synergistic use of photochemical and photothermal effects

(2018) Markus Lahikainen et al.   Nature Communications

Chemical control of the viscoelastic properties of vinylogous urethane vitrimers

(2017) Wim Denissen et al.   Nature Communications

Soft Actuators for Small-Scale Robotics

(2016) Lindsey Hines et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photomobile Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers with Rearrangeable Networks

(2016) Toru Ube et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Making and Remaking Dynamic 3D Structures by Shining Light on Flat Liquid Crystalline Vitrimer Films without a Mold

(2016) Yang Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photocontrol of fluid slugs in liquid crystal polymer microactuators

(2016) Jiu-an Lv et al.   NATURE

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

(2016) Meng Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Photothermally Reprogrammable Buckling of Nanocomposite Gel Sheets

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

Dynamically Cross-Linked Polydimethylsiloxane Networks with Ambient-Temperature Self-Healing

(2015) Willi Schmolke et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Design, fabrication and control of soft robots

(2015) Daniela Rus et al.   NATURE

Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

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

Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

(2015) Taylor H. Ware et al.   SCIENCE

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

Reversible Bidirectional Shape-Memory Polymers

(2013) Marc Behl et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Mouldable liquid-crystalline elastomer actuators with exchangeable covalent bonds

(2013) Zhiqiang Pei et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Dynamic self-stiffening in liquid crystal elastomers

(2013) Aditya Agrawal et al.   Nature Communications

A Surprise from 1954: Siloxane Equilibration Is a Simple, Robust, and Obvious Polymer Self-Healing Mechanism

(2012) Peiwen Zheng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Camouflage and Display for Soft Machines

(2012) S. A. Morin et al.   SCIENCE

Self-folding of polymer sheets using local light absorption

(2011) Ying Liu et al.   Soft Matter

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

(2010) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Dispersion and Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes in Liquid Crystalline Polymers and Elastomers

(2010) Yan Ji et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS