A mobile magnetic pad with fast light-switchable adhesion capabilities

Reconfiguration, Camouflage, and Color‐Shifting for Bioinspired Adaptive Hydrogel‐Based Millirobots

(2020) Xuemin Du et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Octopus Arm-Inspired Tapered Soft Actuators with Suckers for Improved Grasping

(2020) Zhexin Xie et al.   Soft Robotics

Four-dimensional micro-building blocks

(2020) T.-Y. Huang et al.   Science Advances

Stimuli-Responsive Actuator Fabricated by Dynamic Asymmetric Femtosecond Bessel Beam for In Situ Particle and Cell Manipulation

(2020) Rui Li et al.   ACS Nano

Light-Driven Hovering of a Magnetic Microswarm in Fluid

(2020) Fengtong Ji et al.   ACS Nano

Liquid‐Superrepellent Bioinspired Fibrillar Adhesives

(2020) Ville Liimatainen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

In-air fast response and high speed jumping and rolling of a light-driven hydrogel actuator

(2020) Mingtong Li et al.   Nature Communications

Electrothermal soft manipulator enabling safe transport and handling of thin cell/tissue sheets and bioelectronic devices

(2020) Byoung Soo Kim et al.   Science Advances

Real-Time Magnetic Navigation of a Rotating Colloidal Microswarm Under Ultrasound Guidance

(2020) Qianqian Wang et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Fast and programmable locomotion of hydrogel-metal hybrids under light and magnetic fields

(2020) Chuang Li et al.   Science Robotics

Design and Real-Time Optimization for a Magnetic Actuation System With Enhanced Flexibility

(2020) Xingzhou Du et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

3D Printing of Multifunctional Hydrogels

(2019) Zhe Chen et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Adhesive Tough Magnetic Hydrogels with High Fe3O4 Content

(2019) Xiaocheng Hu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Mimicking the Structure and Function of Ant Bridges in a Reconfigurable Microswarm for Electronic Applications

(2019) Dongdong Jin et al.   ACS Nano

Four-dimensional direct laser writing of reconfigurable compound micromachines

(2019) Dongdong Jin et al.   Materials Today

High‐Resolution SPECT Imaging of Stimuli‐Responsive Soft Microrobots

(2019) Veronica Iacovacci et al.   Small

Molecular cargo delivery using multicellular magnetic microswimmers

(2019) Xiaohui Yan et al.   Applied Materials Today

Reversible adhesion to rough surfaces both in and out of water, inspired by the clingfish suction disc

(2019) Jessica Alexandra Sandoval et al.   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Botanical‐Inspired 4D Printing of Hydrogel at the Microscale

(2019) Yanlei Hu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Dry double-sided tape for adhesion of wet tissues and devices

(2019) Hyunwoo Yuk et al.   NATURE

Magnetic Shape Memory Polymers with Integrated Multifunctional Shape Manipulation

(2019) Qiji Ze et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Active generation and magnetic actuation of microrobotic swarms in bio-fluids

(2019) Jiangfan Yu et al.   Nature Communications

Slanted Functional Gradient Micropillars for Optimal Bioinspired Dry Adhesion

(2018) Zhengzhi Wang   ACS Nano

Design of a novel magnetic platform for cell manipulation

(2018) Gioia Lucarini et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING

Bonding dissimilar polymer networks in various manufacturing processes

(2018) Qihan Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Biodegradable Thermomagnetically Responsive Soft Untethered Grippers

(2018) Kunihiko Kobayashi et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Materials science: How to suck like an octopus

(2017) Jonathan J. Wilker   NATURE

A wet-tolerant adhesive patch inspired by protuberances in suction cups of octopi

(2017) Sangyul Baik et al.   NATURE

Controllable load sharing for soft adhesive interfaces on three-dimensional surfaces

(2017) Sukho Song et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dumbbell Fluidic Tweezers for Dynamical Trapping and Selective Transport of Microobjects

(2016) Qi Zhou et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Octopus-Inspired Smart Adhesive Pads for Transfer Printing of Semiconducting Nanomembranes

(2016) Hochan Lee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Soft micromachines with programmable motility and morphology

(2016) Hen-Wei Huang et al.   Nature Communications

Skin-inspired hydrogel–elastomer hybrids with robust interfaces and functional microstructures

(2016) Hyunwoo Yuk et al.   Nature Communications

Self-Folding Thermo-Magnetically Responsive Soft Microgrippers

(2015) Joyce C. Breger et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Magnetite Nanostructured Porous Hollow Helical Microswimmers for Targeted Delivery

(2015) Xiaohui Yan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Polydimethylsiloxane films doped with NdFeB powder: magnetic characterization and potential applications in biomedical engineering and microrobotics

(2015) V. Iacovacci et al.   BIOMEDICAL MICRODEVICES

Three-dimensional heterogeneous assembly of coded microgels using an untethered mobile microgripper

(2015) Su Eun Chung et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Tough bonding of hydrogels to diverse non-porous surfaces

(2015) Hyunwoo Yuk et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Soft Grippers Using Micro-fibrillar Adhesives for Transfer Printing

(2014) Sukho Song et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Magnetic Helical Micromachines: Fabrication, Controlled Swimming, and Cargo Transport

(2012) Soichiro Tottori et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Controlled Propulsion and Cargo Transport of Rotating Nickel Nanowires near a Patterned Solid Surface

(2010) Li Zhang et al.   ACS Nano

Artificial bacterial flagella: Fabrication and magnetic control

(2009) Li Zhang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Hierarchical Gecko-Like Adhesives

(2008) Christian Greiner et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS