“Freezing”, morphing, and folding of stretchy tough hydrogels

Rational design of reconfigurable prismatic architected materials

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Enzymatic mineralization generates ultrastiff and tough hydrogels with tunable mechanics

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Liquid metal sponges for mechanically durable, all-soft, electrical conductors

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

(2017) Yihui Zhang et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Engineered Elastomer Substrates for Guided Assembly of Complex 3D Mesostructures by Spatially Nonuniform Compressive Buckling

(2016) Kewang Nan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A Mineralized High Strength and Tough Hydrogel for Skull Bone Regeneration

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A Universal Soaking Strategy to Convert Composite Hydrogels into Extremely Tough and Rapidly Recoverable Double-Network Hydrogels

(2016) Yanyu Yang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Morphing Metal and Elastomer Bicontinuous Foams for Reversible Stiffness, Shape Memory, and Self-Healing Soft Machines

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Ultrafast Digital Printing toward 4D Shape Changing Materials

(2016) Limei Huang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Engineering of Tough Double Network Hydrogels

(2016) Qiang Chen et al.   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Biomimetic 4D printing

(2016) A. Sydney Gladman et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Pursuing prosthetic electronic skin

(2016) Alex Chortos et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

“ 2D or not 2D”: Shape-programming polymer sheets

(2016) Ying Liu et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Sensitive electromechanical sensors using viscoelastic graphene-polymer nanocomposites

(2016) C. S. Boland et al.   SCIENCE

Soft micromachines with programmable motility and morphology

(2016) Hen-Wei Huang et al.   Nature Communications

Skin-inspired hydrogel–elastomer hybrids with robust interfaces and functional microstructures

(2016) Hyunwoo Yuk et al.   Nature Communications

3D Stretchable, Compressible, and Highly Conductive Metal-Coated Polydimethylsiloxane Sponges

(2016) Suqing Liang et al.   Advanced Materials Technologies

Oppositely Charged Polyelectrolytes Form Tough, Self-Healing, and Rebuildable Hydrogels

(2015) Feng Luo et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Weak Hydrogen Bonding Enables Hard, Strong, Tough, and Elastic Hydrogels

(2015) Xiaobo Hu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Sensitive and Biodegradable Pressure Sensor Array for Cardiovascular Monitoring

(2015) Clementine M. Boutry et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Stretchable Hydrogel Electronics and Devices

(2015) Shaoting Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Tough bonding of hydrogels to diverse non-porous surfaces

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A mechanically driven form of Kirigami as a route to 3D mesostructures in micro/nanomembranes

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Wearable energy-dense and power-dense supercapacitor yarns enabled by scalable graphene–metallic textile composite electrodes

(2015) Libin Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Thin, Tough, pH-Sensitive Hydrogel Films with Rapid Load Recovery

(2014) Sina Naficy et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

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

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

Tough Stimuli-Responsive Supramolecular Hydrogels with Hydrogen-Bonding Network Junctions

(2014) Mingyu Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A method for building self-folding machines

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Super Tough, Ultrastretchable, and Thermoresponsive Hydrogels with Functionalized Triblock Copolymer Micelles as Macro-Cross-Linkers

(2014) Yuan-na Sun et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Strengthening Alginate/Polyacrylamide Hydrogels Using Various Multivalent Cations

(2013) Can Hui Yang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

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

(2013) Zi Liang Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels

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Designing Responsive Buckled Surfaces by Halftone Gel Lithography

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