Ionoprinted Multi-Responsive Hydrogel Actuators

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

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

Self-Folding Thermo-Magnetically Responsive Soft Microgrippers

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

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-Clay Nanocomposite Hydrogels with Responsive Bending Property as Temperature-Controlled Manipulators

(2015) Chen Yao et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Photothermally Reprogrammable Buckling of Nanocomposite Gel Sheets

(2015) Adam W. Hauser et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Shape transformations of soft matter governed by bi-axial stresses

(2015) Héloïse Thérien-Aubin et al.   Soft Matter

High strength nanocomposite hydrogel bilayer with bidirectional bending and shape switching behaviors for soft actuators

(2015) Bo Xu et al.   RSC Advances

Novel Hydrogel Actuator Inspired by Reversible Mussel Adhesive Protein Chemistry

(2014) Bruce P. Lee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Supramolecular Lego Assembly Towards Three-Dimensional Multi-Responsive Hydrogels

(2014) Chunxin Ma et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Programming Reversibly Self-Folding Origami with Micropatterned Photo-Crosslinkable Polymer Trilayers

(2014) Jun-Hee Na et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Hydrogel-based actuators: possibilities and limitations

(2014) Leonid Ionov   Materials Today

Edge-defined metric buckling of temperature-responsive hydrogel ribbons and rings

(2014) Jinhye Bae et al.   POLYMER

Hybrid hydrogel sheets that undergo pre-programmed shape transformations

(2014) Zengjiang Wei et al.   Soft Matter

Hybrid hydrogels containing vertically aligned carbon nanotubes with anisotropic electrical conductivity for muscle myofiber fabrication

(2014) Samad Ahadian et al.   Scientific Reports

Hydrophobic hydration of poly-N-isopropyl acrylamide: a matter of the mean energetic state of water

(2014) I. Bischofberger et al.   Scientific Reports

Self-Propelled Microswimmer Actuated by Stimuli-Sensitive Bilayered Hydrogel

(2014) Svetoslav V. Nikolov et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Advances in smart materials: Stimuli-responsive hydrogel thin films

(2013) Evan M. White et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Multiple Shape Transformations of Composite Hydrogel Sheets

(2013) Héloïse Thérien-Aubin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Modeling programmable deformation of self-folding all-polymer structures with temperature-sensitive hydrogels

(2013) Wei Guo et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Micromechanics of temperature sensitive microgels: dip in the Poisson ratio near the LCST

(2013) Panayiotis Voudouris et al.   Soft Matter

Reconfigurable and actuating structures from soft materials

(2013) Ren Geryak et al.   Soft Matter

Electro-actuated hydrogel walkers with dual responsive legs

(2013) Daniel Morales et al.   Soft Matter

Bioinspired materials that self-shape through programmed microstructures

(2013) André R. Studart et al.   Soft Matter

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

(2013) Zi Liang Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Reversible patterning and actuation of hydrogels by electrically assisted ionoprinting

(2013) Etienne Palleau et al.   Nature Communications

Stabilization of electrophoretically adhered gel-interfaces to construct multi-layered hydrogels

(2013) Taka-Aki Asoh et al.   RSC Advances

Electronically Programmable, Reversible Shape Change in Two- and Three-Dimensional Hydrogel Structures

(2012) Cunjiang Yu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Deswelling Mechanisms of Surface-Grafted Poly(NIPAAm) Brush: Molecular Dynamics Simulation Approach

(2012) Seung Geol Lee et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Behaviour of hydrogen bonding and structure of poly(acrylic acid) in water–ethanol solution investigated by explicit ion molecular dynamics simulations

(2012) Sriram Srikant et al.   MOLECULAR SIMULATION

Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels

(2012) Jeong-Yun Sun et al.   NATURE

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Designing Responsive Buckled Surfaces by Halftone Gel Lithography

(2012) Jungwook Kim et al.   SCIENCE

Dual signal glucose reporter based on inverse opal conducting hydrogel films

(2012) Lu Jin et al.   Soft Matter

Thermally responsive rolling of thin gel strips with discrete variations in swelling

(2012) Jungwook Kim et al.   Soft Matter

Interfacing biodegradable molecular hydrogels with liquid crystals

(2012) I-Hsin Lin et al.   Soft Matter

Optically- and Thermally-Responsive Programmable Materials Based on Carbon Nanotube-Hydrogel Polymer Composites

(2011) Xiaobo Zhang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Self-folding all-polymer thermoresponsive microcapsules

(2011) Georgi Stoychev et al.   Soft Matter

Adhesion and Mechanical Properties of PNIPAM Microgel Films and Their Potential Use as Switchable Cell Culture Substrates

(2010) Stephan Schmidt et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Electrophoretic adhesion of stimuli-responsive hydrogels

(2010) Taka-Aki Asoh et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Tailoring the mechanical properties of polyacrylamide-based hydrogels

(2010) Bryan A. Baker et al.   POLYMER

Photolithographically patterned smart hydrogel based bilayer actuators

(2010) Noy Bassik et al.   POLYMER

Temperature controlled encapsulation and release using partially biodegradable thermo-magneto-sensitive self-rolling tubes

(2010) Svetlana Zakharchenko et al.   Soft Matter

Patterning hydrogels in three dimensions towards controlling cellular interactions

(2010) Sudhir Khetan et al.   Soft Matter

Optimization of Electroactive Hydrogel Actuators

(2009) Megan L. O’Grady et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Hydrogels in Regenerative Medicine

(2009) Brandon V. Slaughter et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Responsive hydrogel layers—from synthesis to applications

(2009) Dirk Kuckling   COLLOID AND POLYMER SCIENCE

Bilayer hydrogel assembly

(2008) Dirk Kuckling et al.   POLYMER

Biomimetic Soft Multifunctional Miniature Aquabots

(2008) Gu Han Kwon et al.   Small