Rapid Moisture-Responsive Silk Fibroin Actuators

β‐Sheet Nanocrystals Dictate Water Responsiveness of Bombyx Mori Silk

(2020) Yaewon Park et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Controlling the shape of 3D microstructures by temperature and light

(2019) Marc Hippler et al.   Nature Communications

Spider dragline silk as torsional actuator driven by humidity

(2019) Dabiao Liu et al.   Science Advances

Moisture Sensitive Smart Yarns and Textiles from Self-Balanced Silk Fiber Muscles

(2019) Tianjiao Jia et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Silk fibroin bending actuators as an approach towards natural polymer based active materials

(2019) Ander Reizabal et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Development of novel network structures in crosslinked liquid-crystalline polymers

(2019) Toru Ube   POLYMER JOURNAL

Moisture-Responsive Graphene Actuators Prepared by Two-Beam Laser Interference of Graphene Oxide Paper

(2019) Hao-Bo Jiang et al.   Frontiers in Chemistry

Controlling silk fibroin conformation for dynamic, responsive, multifunctional, micropatterned surfaces

(2019) Yu Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dual-responsive (pH/temperature) Pluronic F-127 hydrogel drug delivery system for textile-based transdermal therapy

(2019) Sudipta Chatterjee et al.   Scientific Reports

A bio-inspired homogeneous graphene oxide actuator driven by moisture gradients

(2018) Yuanhang Ge et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Molecular-channel driven actuator with considerations for multiple configurations and color switching

(2018) Jiuke Mu et al.   Nature Communications

An instant responsive polymer driven by anisotropy of crystal phases

(2018) Heng Deng et al.   Materials Horizons

Biomedical applications of soft robotics

(2018) Matteo Cianchetti et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Bioinspired Smart Moisture Actuators Based on Nanoscale Cellulose Materials and Porous, Hydrophilic EVOH Nanofibrous Membranes

(2018) Qing Zhu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Biocompatible silk-conducting polymer composite trilayer actuators

(2017) Carly V Fengel et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Sub-micron silk fibroin film with high humidity sensibility through color changing

(2017) Qingsong Li et al.   RSC Advances

Polybenzoxazole Nanofiber-Reinforced Moisture-Responsive Soft Actuators

(2017) Meiling Chen et al.   Scientific Reports

One Single Graphene Oxide Film for Responsive Actuation

(2016) Huhu Cheng et al.   ACS Nano

Spontaneous, Straightforward Fabrication of Partially Reduced Graphene Oxide–Polypyrrole Composite Films for Versatile Actuators

(2016) Yue Jiang et al.   ACS Nano

Humidity- and Photo-Induced Mechanical Actuation of Cross-Linked Liquid Crystal Polymers

(2016) Yuyun Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Soft Actuators for Small-Scale Robotics

(2016) Lindsey Hines et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Magnetic Hydrogels from Alkyne/Cobalt Carbonyl-Functionalized ABA Triblock Copolymers

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

An autonomous actuator driven by fluctuations in ambient humidity

(2016) Hiroki Arazoe et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Electrochemically driven mechanical energy harvesting

(2016) Sangtae Kim et al.   Nature Communications

How two-dimensional bending can extraordinarily stiffen thin sheets

(2016) V. Pini et al.   Scientific Reports

Scaling up nanoscale water-driven energy conversion into evaporation-driven engines and generators

(2015) Xi Chen et al.   Nature Communications

Moisture-responsive films of cellulose stearoyl esters showing reversible shape transitions

(2015) Kai Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Regenerated Silk Fibroin Films with Controllable Nanostructure Size and Secondary Structure for Drug Delivery

(2014) Juan Zhou et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Actuating Porous Polyimide Films

(2014) Yaoming Zhang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Biocompatible Electromechanical Actuators Composed of Silk-Conducting Polymer Composites

(2014) Isabella S. Romero et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Silk-based resorbable electronic devices for remotely controlled therapy and in vivo infection abatement

(2014) Hu Tao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An instant multi-responsive porous polymer actuator driven by solvent molecule sorption

(2014) Qiang Zhao et al.   Nature Communications

Bio-Inspired Polymer Composite Actuator and Generator Driven by Water Gradients

(2013) M. Ma et al.   SCIENCE

Fast low-voltage electroactive actuators using nanostructured polymer electrolytes

(2013) Onnuri Kim et al.   Nature Communications

Regulation of Silk Material Structure by Temperature-Controlled Water Vapor Annealing

(2011) Xiao Hu et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Structure and properties of biomedical films prepared from aqueous and acidic silk fibroin solutions

(2011) Rangam Rajkhowa et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A

Silk as a Biomimetic Ideal for Structural Polymers

(2009) David Porter et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Spider silk as a novel high performance biomimetic muscle driven by humidity

(2009) I. Agnarsson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

How super is supercontraction? Persistent versus cyclic responses to humidity in spider dragline silk

(2009) T. A. Blackledge et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Actuation systems in plants as prototypes for bioinspired devices

(2009) I. Burgert et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Dynamic Protein−Water Relationships during β-Sheet Formation

(2008) Xiao Hu et al.   MACROMOLECULES