Covalent Bonding of Thermoplastics to Rubbers for Printable, Reel-to-Reel Processing in Soft Robotics and Microfluidics

Amidation of Polyesters Is Slow in Nonaqueous Solvents: Efficient Amidation of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) with 3-Aminopropyltriethoxysilane in Water for Generating Multifunctional Surfaces

(2016) Gilbert A. Castillo et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Soft Actuators for Small-Scale Robotics

(2016) Lindsey Hines et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Adhesion of Morphologically Distinct Crystals to and Selective Release from Elastomeric Surfaces

(2016) Mark A. Rose et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Biomimetic 4D printing

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

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

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

A three-dimensional actuated origami-inspired transformable metamaterial with multiple degrees of freedom

(2016) Johannes T.B. Overvelde et al.   Nature Communications

Implementation of soft microfingers for a hMSC aggregate manipulation system

(2016) Satoshi Konishi et al.   Microsystems & Nanoengineering

Stretchable Chemical Patterns for the Assembly and Manipulation of Arrays of Microdroplets with Lensing and Micromixing Functionality

(2015) John J. Bowen et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Reconfigurable microfluidic systems with reversible seals compatible with 2D and 3D surfaces of arbitrary chemical composition

(2015) Abhiteja Konda et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Instantaneous room temperature bonding of a wide range of non-silicon substrates with poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) elastomer mediated by a mercaptosilane

(2015) Wenming Wu et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Assembly of micro/nanomaterials into complex, three-dimensional architectures by compressive buckling

(2015) S. Xu et al.   SCIENCE

Thermoplastic building blocks for the fabrication of microfluidic masters

(2015) Michael A. Stoller et al.   RSC Advances

A method for building self-folding machines

(2014) S. Felton et al.   SCIENCE

Bioinspired Water-Enhanced Mechanical Gradient Nanocomposite Films That Mimic the Architecture and Properties of the Squid Beak

(2013) Justin D. Fox et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Droplet microfluidics driven by gradients of confinement

(2013) R. Dangla et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Investigation on the Mechanism of Aminosilane-Mediated Bonding of Thermoplastics and Poly(dimethylsiloxane)

(2012) Vijaya Sunkara et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Elastomeric Origami: Programmable Paper-Elastomer Composites as Pneumatic Actuators

(2012) Ramses V. Martinez et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Versatile method for bonding hard and soft materials

(2012) Vijaya Sunkara et al.   RSC Advances

Characterization of bonding between poly(dimethylsiloxane) and cyclic olefin copolymer using corona discharge induced grafting polymerization

(2011) Ke Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Multigait soft robot

(2011) R. F. Shepherd et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Self-folding of polymer sheets using local light absorption

(2011) Ying Liu et al.   Soft Matter

Biological Composites

(2010) John W.C. Dunlop et al.   Annual Review of Materials Research

A facile route for irreversible bonding of plastic-PDMS hybrid microdevices at room temperature

(2010) Linzhi Tang et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Simple room temperature bonding of thermoplastics and poly(dimethylsiloxane)

(2010) Vijaya Sunkara et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Stamps, inks and substrates: polymers in microcontact printing

(2010) Tobias Kaufmann et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Programmable matter by folding

(2010) E. Hawkes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Materials and Mechanics for Stretchable Electronics

(2010) J. A. Rogers et al.   SCIENCE

Characterization and fabrication of disposable screen printed microelectrodes

(2009) Rashid O. Kadara et al.   ELECTROCHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS

Two- and three-dimensional folding of thin film single-crystalline silicon for photovoltaic power applications

(2009) X. Guo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Developments and new applications of UV-induced surface graft polymerizations

(2008) J DENG et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

The Transition from Stiff to Compliant Materials in Squid Beaks

(2008) A. Miserez et al.   SCIENCE