Bioinspired materials that self-shape through programmed microstructures

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

(2013) Zi Liang Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Self-shaping composites with programmable bioinspired microstructures

(2013) Randall M. Erb et al.   Nature Communications

Catapulting Tentacles in a Sticky Carnivorous Plant

(2012) Simon Poppinga et al.   PLoS One

How the Cucumber Tendril Coils and Overwinds

(2012) S. J. Gerbode et al.   SCIENCE

Composites Reinforced in Three Dimensions by Using Low Magnetic Fields

(2012) R. M. Erb et al.   SCIENCE

Non-linear alignment dynamics in suspensions of platelets under rotating magnetic fields

(2012) Randall M. Erb et al.   Soft Matter

Bioinspired Mechanically Adaptive Polymer Nanocomposites with Water-Activated Shape-Memory Effect

(2011) Julie Mendez et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Ultra-fast underwater suction traps

(2011) O. Vincent et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Shape-memory polymers and their composites: Stimulus methods and applications

(2011) Jinsong Leng et al.   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE

Geometry and Mechanics in the Opening of Chiral Seed Pods

(2011) S. Armon et al.   SCIENCE

Soft microorigami: self-folding polymer films

(2011) Leonid Ionov   Soft Matter

Origami-like unfolding of hydro-actuated ice plant seed capsules

(2011) Matthew J. Harrington et al.   Nature Communications

Programmable matter by folding

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

Self-winding of helices in plant tendrils and cellulose liquid crystal fibers

(2010) M. H. Godinho et al.   Soft Matter

Hygromorphs: from pine cones to biomimetic bilayers

(2009) E. Reyssat et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Biomaterial systems for mechanosensing and actuation

(2009) Peter Fratzl et al.   NATURE

Printed artificial cilia from liquid-crystal network actuators modularly driven by light

(2009) Casper L. van Oosten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Actuation systems in plants as prototypes for bioinspired devices

(2009) I. Burgert et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Biomimetic mechanically adaptive nanocomposites

(2009) Kadhiravan Shanmuganathan et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

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

(2009) M. H. Godinho et al.   Soft Matter

Helical Twisting of Electrospun Liquid Crystalline Cellulose Micro- and Nanofibers

(2008) João P. Canejo et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Cellulose fibrils direct plant organ movements

(2008) Peter Fratzl et al.   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Nanocomposites Inspired by the Sea Cucumber Dermis

(2008) J. R. Capadona et al.   SCIENCE