Controllable and versatile self-motivated motion of a fiber on a hot surface

Light-propelled self-sustained swimming of a liquid crystal elastomer torus at low Reynolds number

(2022) Kai Li et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCES

Autonomous snapping and jumping polymer gels

(2021) Yongjin Kim et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Coupled liquid crystalline oscillators in Huygens’ synchrony

(2021) Ghislaine Vantomme et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Leidenfrost droplet trampolining

(2021) Gustav Graeber et al.   Nature Communications

Light-driven continuous rotating Möbius strip actuators

(2021) Zhen-Zhou Nie et al.   Nature Communications

Phototunable self-oscillating system driven by a self-winding fiber actuator

(2021) Zhiming Hu et al.   Nature Communications

Light-driven core-shell fiber actuator based on carbon nanotubes/liquid crystal elastomer for artificial muscle and phototropic locomotion

(2021) Yue Yu et al.   CARBON

Light‐Fueled Polymer Film Capable of Directional Crawling, Friction‐Controlled Climbing, and Self‐Sustained Motion on a Human Hair

(2021) Ming Cheng et al.   Advanced Science

A nonlinear beam model of photomotile structures

(2020) Kevin Korner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Self-Excited Motions of Volatile Drops on Swellable Sheets

(2020) Aditi Chakrabarti et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Self-sustained rolling of a thermally responsive rod on a hot surface

(2020) Kai Li et al.   Extreme Mechanics Letters

Untethered soft robotic matter with passive control of shape morphing and propulsion

(2019) Arda Kotikian et al.   Science Robotics

Light-fuelled freestyle self-oscillators

(2019) Hao Zeng et al.   Nature Communications

Light or thermally-powered autonomous rolling of an elastomer rod

(2018) Chihyung Ahn et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Motorizing fibres with geometric zero-energy modes

(2018) Arthur Baumann et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Photothermocapillary Oscillators

(2018) Adam W. Hauser et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Making waves in a photoactive polymer film

(2017) Anne Helene Gelebart et al.   NATURE

A four-blade light-driven plastic mill based on hydrazone liquid-crystal networks

(2017) G. Vantomme et al.   TETRAHEDRON

Optical Pendulum Generator Based on Photomechanical Liquid-Crystalline Actuators

(2015) Rong Tang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Self-oscillation

(2012) Alejandro Jenkins   PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS

Multiple types of spatio-temporal oscillations induced by differential diffusion in the Landolt reaction

(2011) Jacques Boissonade et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Liquid crystalline polymer cantilever oscillators fueled by light

(2009) Svetlana Serak et al.   Soft Matter