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Preparation of biomimetic hierarchically helical fiber actuators from carbon nanotubes

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Helical Locomotion in a Granular Medium

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Reduction of granular drag inspired by self-burrowing rotary seeds

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Curvature-driven morphing of non-Euclidean shells

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Waveguiding Microactuators Based on a Photothermally Responsive Nanocomposite Hydrogel

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Mechanics of Fibrous Biological Materials With Hierarchical Chirality

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A plant tendril mimic soft actuator with phototunable bending and chiral twisting motion modes

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

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Mechanics of tunable helices and geometric frustration in biomimetic seashells

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Humidity-Responsive Liquid Crystalline Polymer Actuators with an Asymmetry in the Molecular Trigger That Bend, Fold, and Curl

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Supramolecular Helices: Chirality Transfer from Conjugated Molecules to Structures

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Light-Controlled Graphene-Elastin Composite Hydrogel Actuators

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Bioinspired Helical Microswimmers Based on Vascular Plants

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Various shape memory effects of stimuli-responsive shape memory polymers

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Modeling helicoid to spiral-ribbon transitions of twist-nematic elastomers

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Autonomous, Hands-Free Shape Memory in Glassy, Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks

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A Novel Electromechanical Actuation Mechanism of a Carbon Nanotube Fiber

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

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Nonlinear Geometric Effects in Mechanical Bistable Morphing Structures

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Switching shapes of nematic elastomers with various director configurations

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How the Cucumber Tendril Coils and Overwinds

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Electrically, Chemically, and Photonically Powered Torsional and Tensile Actuation of Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Yarn Muscles

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Composites Reinforced in Three Dimensions by Using Low Magnetic Fields

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Designing Responsive Buckled Surfaces by Halftone Gel Lithography

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Liquid Rope Coiling

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Hierarchically Structured Free-Standing Hydrogels with Liquid Crystalline Domains and Magnetic Nanoparticles as Dual Physical Cross-Linkers

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Edge Effects Determine the Direction of Bilayer Bending

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

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On the growth and form of the gut

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Shape selection of twist-nematic-elastomer ribbons

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Generating Helices in Nature

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Geometry and Mechanics in the Opening of Chiral Seed Pods

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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

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Polymeric Nanosprings by Bicomponent Electrospinning

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Curled Poly(ethylene glycol terephthalate)/Poly(ethylene propanediol terephthalate) Nanofibers Produced by Side-by-side Electrospinning

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How to mimic the shapes of plant tendrils on the nano and microscale: spirals and helices of electrospun liquid crystalline cellulose derivatives

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Helical Twisting of Electrospun Liquid Crystalline Cellulose Micro- and Nanofibers

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Magnetoactive liquid crystal elastomer nanocomposites

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Elastic theory of unconstrained non-Euclidean plates

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Stimuli-responsive polymer gels

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