Liquid Crystal Elastomer Metamaterials with Giant Biaxial Thermal Shrinkage for Enhancing Skin Regeneration

Spatiotemporal control of liquid crystal structure and dynamics through activity patterning

(2021) Rui Zhang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Healable and Rearrangeable Networks of Liquid Crystal Elastomers Enabled by Diselenide Bonds

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Hydrogel–mesh composite for wound closure

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Soft three-dimensional network materials with rational bio-mimetic designs

(2020) Dongjia Yan et al.   Nature Communications

A nonlinear beam model of photomotile structures

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Shape‐Memory Polymers for Biomedical Applications

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Designing Biodegradable Shape Memory Polymers for Tissue Repair

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Liquid‐Crystal‐Elastomer‐Based Dissipative Structures by Digital Light Processing 3D Printing

(2020) Nicholas A. Traugutt et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Lipid coating and end functionalization govern the formation and stability of transmembrane carbon nanotube porins

(2020) Chun Shen et al.   CARBON

Resilient yet entirely degradable gelatin-based biogels for soft robots and electronics

(2020) Melanie Baumgartner et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Instant tough bioadhesive with triggerable benign detachment

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Prolate and oblate chiral liquid crystal spheroids

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Repeatable and Reprogrammable Shape Morphing from Photoresponsive Gold Nanorod/Liquid Crystal Elastomers

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Processing advances in liquid crystal elastomers provide a path to biomedical applications

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Functional hydrogel coatings

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Three-dimensional printing of functionally graded liquid crystal elastomer

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Designing Mechanical Metamaterials with Kirigami‐Inspired, Hierarchical Constructions for Giant Positive and Negative Thermal Expansion

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Mechanics of unusual soft network materials with rotatable structural nodes

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Pure PEDOT:PSS hydrogels

(2019) Baoyang Lu et al.   Nature Communications

Adhesive Hemostatic Conducting Injectable Composite Hydrogels with Sustained Drug Release and Photothermal Antibacterial Activity to Promote Full‐Thickness Skin Regeneration During Wound Healing

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Temperature- and rigidity-mediated rapid transport of lipid nanovesicles in hydrogels

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Long Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fibers with Large Reversible Actuation Strains for Smart Textiles and Artificial Muscles

(2019) Devin J. Roach et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

A viscoelastic adhesive epicardial patch for treating myocardial infarction

(2019) Xiao Lin et al.   Nature Biomedical Engineering

Design Molecular Topology for Wet–Dry Adhesion

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Enhanced Dynamic Adhesion in Nematic Liquid Crystal Elastomers

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Bioinspired mechanically active adhesive dressings to accelerate wound closure

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Evaluation of anisotropic properties of striae distensae with regard to skin surface texture and viscoelasticity

(2019) Min Ah Kim et al.   SKIN RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

Remotely Triggered Assembly of 3D Mesostructures Through Shape‐Memory Effects

(2019) Jun Kyu Park et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

2D Mechanical Metamaterials with Widely Tunable Unusual Modes of Thermal Expansion

(2019) Xiaoyue Ni et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2019) Hyunwoo Yuk et al.   NATURE

Electrically controlled liquid crystal elastomer–based soft tubular actuator with multimodal actuation

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Mechanically transformative electronics, sensors, and implantable devices

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Fundamental Limits to the Electrochemical Impedance Stability of Dielectric Elastomers in Bioelectronics

(2019) Paul Le Floch et al.   NANO LETTERS

Dynamically Crystalizing Liquid‐Crystal Elastomers for an Expandable Endplate‐Conforming Interbody Fusion Cage

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3D Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomeric Actuators with Spatially Programed Nematic Order

(2018) Arda Kotikian et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Double-layer Sandwich Annulus with Ultra-low Thermal Expansion

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Universal inverse design of surfaces with thin nematic elastomer sheets

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Thermomechanical properties of monodomain nematic main-chain liquid crystal elastomers

(2018) Daniel R. Merkel et al.   Soft Matter

Rapid transport of deformation-tuned nanoparticles across biological hydrogels and cellular barriers

(2018) Miaorong Yu et al.   Nature Communications

Liquid crystal elastomer coatings with programmed response of surface profile

(2018) Greta Babakhanova et al.   Nature Communications

A Light-Powered Ultralight Tensegrity Robot with High Deformability and Load Capacity

(2018) Zhijian Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Multiresponsive polymeric microstructures with encoded predetermined and self-regulated deformability

(2018) Yuxing Yao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The tension biology of wound healing

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Advances in engineering hydrogels

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Liquid-crystal order during synthesis affects main-chain liquid-crystal elastomer behavior

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3D printed reversible shape changing soft actuators assisted by liquid crystal elastomers

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Printing, folding and assembly methods for forming 3D mesostructures in advanced materials

(2017) Yihui Zhang et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Flexible piezoelectric devices for gastrointestinal motility sensing

(2017) Canan Dagdeviren et al.   Nature Biomedical Engineering

Isotropic Negative Thermal Expansion Metamaterials

(2016) Lingling Wu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Printed Carbon Nanotube Electronics and Sensor Systems

(2016) Kevin Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A nonlinear mechanics model of bio-inspired hierarchical lattice materials consisting of horseshoe microstructures

(2016) Qiang Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

The Current State of Silicone-Based Dielectric Elastomer Transducers

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Photocontrol of fluid slugs in liquid crystal polymer microactuators

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Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots

(2016) Stefano Palagi et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Localized soft elasticity in liquid crystal elastomers

(2016) Taylor H. Ware et al.   Nature Communications

Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

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Porous composite with negative thermal expansion obtained by photopolymer additive manufacturing

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Thin Films with Ultra-low Thermal Expansion

(2014) Namiko Yamamoto et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Wound repair and regeneration: Mechanisms, signaling, and translation

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A review of shape memory alloy research, applications and opportunities

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Mouldable liquid-crystalline elastomer actuators with exchangeable covalent bonds

(2013) Zhiqiang Pei et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Recent advances in shape–memory polymers: Structure, mechanism, functionality, modeling and applications

(2012) Jinlian Hu et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Electrically, Chemically, and Photonically Powered Torsional and Tensile Actuation of Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Yarn Muscles

(2012) M. D. Lima et al.   SCIENCE

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

(2010) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Nematic main-chain elastomers: Coupling and orientational behavior

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Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers: Monomer and Cross-Linker Molecular Control of the Thermotropic and Elastic Properties

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