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Enzymatically Triggered Jack-in-the-Box-like Hydrogels

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Transparent Light‐Driven Hydrogel Actuator Based on Photothermal Marangoni Effect and Buoyancy Flow for Three‐Dimensional Motion

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Autonomous Shapeshifting Hydrogels via Temporal Programming of Photoswitchable Dynamic Network

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Strong tough hydrogels via the synergy of freeze-casting and salting out

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

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Highly thermal conductive and electrical insulating polymer composites with boron nitride

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Electric field-driven building blocks for introducing multiple gradients to hydrogels

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Programmable Reversible Shape Transformation of Hydrogels Based on Transient Structural Anisotropy

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Achieving a high thermal conductivity for segregated BN / PLA composites via hydrogen bonding regulation through cellulose network

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Multiple-Stimuli-Responsive and Cellulose Conductive Ionic Hydrogel for Smart Wearable Devices and Thermal Actuators

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In situ synthesis of polymer-modified boron nitride nanosheets via anionic polymerization

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Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-based smart hydrogels: Design, properties and applications

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Recent Progress in Biomimetic Anisotropic Hydrogel Actuators

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

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Dual-gradient enabled ultrafast biomimetic snapping of hydrogel materials

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

(2019) Haili Qin et al.   Nature Communications

Multi-functional soft-bodied jellyfish-like swimming

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Spray-assisted assembled spherical boron nitride as fillers for polymers with enhanced thermally conductivity

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Multiple-Responsive and Amphibious Hydrogel Actuator Based on Asymmetric UCST-Type Volume Phase Transition

(2019) Luqin Hua et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Disruptive, Soft, Wearable Sensors

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Tough, Self‐Healing Hydrogels Capable of Ultrafast Shape Changing

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Photothermal Nanocomposite Hydrogel Actuator with Electric-Field-Induced Gradient and Oriented Structure

(2018) Yang Yang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Instantaneous Magnetically Assembled and Hydrophilic Photonic Crystals with Controlled Diffraction Colors

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Mimosa inspired bilayer hydrogel actuator functioning in multi-environments

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Shape Changing Hydrogels and Their Applications as Soft Actuators

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

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Snap-Buckling Motivated Controllable Jumping of Thermo-Responsive Hydrogel Bilayers

(2018) Guorong Gao et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Temperature-Responsive Electrocatalysis Based on Poly(N -Isopropylacrylamide)-Modified Graphene Oxide (PNIPAm-GO)

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Mechanochemical route to the synthesis of nanostructured Aluminium nitride

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

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

Gradient Porous Elastic Hydrogels with Shape-Memory Property and Anisotropic Responses for Programmable Locomotion

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A tissue-engineered jellyfish with biomimetic propulsion

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Programmable responsive shaping behavior induced by visible multi-dimensional gradients of magnetic nanoparticles

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Fabrication of Temperature-Responsive Bending Hydrogels with a Nanostructured Gradient

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The effect of mechanical activation on the properties of β-sialon precursors

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