Giving Direction to Motion and Surface with Ultra-Fast Speed Using Oriented Hydrogel Fibers

Unusual and Superfast Temperature-Triggered Actuators

(2015) Shaohua Jiang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Toward a New Generation of Electrically Controllable Hygromorphic Soft Actuators

(2015) Silvia Taccola et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Effect of polymer nanofibers thermoelasticity on deformable fluid-saturated porous membrane

(2015) Charly Azra et al.   POLYMER

Thermophilic films and fibers from photo cross-linkable UCST-type polymers

(2015) Fangyao Liu et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Solvent-driven temperature memory and multiple shape memory effects

(2015) Rui Xiao et al.   Soft Matter

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

(2015) Kai Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Polymer origami: programming the folding with shape

(2014) Leonid Ionov   E-POLYMERS

Conversion of light into macroscopic helical motion

(2014) Supitchaya Iamsaard et al.   Nature Chemistry

A Bioinspired Soft Actuated Material

(2013) Ellen T. Roche et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2013) M. Ma et al.   SCIENCE

Three-dimensional shape transformations of hydrogel sheets induced by small-scale modulation of internal stresses

(2013) Zi Liang Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Self-shaping composites with programmable bioinspired microstructures

(2013) Randall M. Erb et al.   Nature Communications

Hierarchical Multi-Step Folding of Polymer Bilayers

(2012) Georgi Stoychev et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Fluorescent Actuator Based on Microporous Conjugated Polymer with Intramolecular Stack Structure

(2012) Wang-Eun Lee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Engineering of Complex Order and the Macroscopic Deformation of Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

(2012) Laurens T. de Haan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photocontrollable Liquid-Crystalline Actuators

(2011) Haifeng Yu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Programming magnetic anisotropy in polymeric microactuators

(2011) Jiyun Kim et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Geometry and Mechanics in the Opening of Chiral Seed Pods

(2011) S. Armon et al.   SCIENCE

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

(2010) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Monolithic Actuators from Flash-Welded Polyaniline Nanofibers

(2007) C. O. Baker et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS