Bioinspired 3D structures with programmable morphologies and motions

Advanced Materials by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

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Growth patterns for shape-shifting elastic bilayers

(2017) Wim M. van Rees et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DNA sequence–directed shape change of photopatterned hydrogels via high-degree swelling

(2017) Angelo Cangialosi et al.   SCIENCE

Stretchable surfaces with programmable 3D texture morphing for synthetic camouflaging skins

(2017) J. H. Pikul et al.   SCIENCE

Sequential self-folding of polymer sheets

(2017) Ying Liu et al.   Science Advances

Light-Controlled Radical Polymerization: Mechanisms, Methods, and Applications

(2016) Mao Chen et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Mechanism of Photoinduced Metal-Free Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization: Experimental and Computational Studies

(2016) Xiangcheng Pan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Biomimetic 4D printing

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

Phototactic guidance of a tissue-engineered soft-robotic ray

(2016) S.-J. Park et al.   SCIENCE

Grayscale gel lithography for programmed buckling of non-Euclidean hydrogel plates

(2016) Jun-Hee Na et al.   Soft Matter

Biologically Inspired Dynamic Material Systems

(2015) André R. Studart   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Design, fabrication and control of soft robots

(2015) Daniela Rus et al.   NATURE

Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

(2015) Timothy J. White et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

(2015) Taylor H. Ware et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

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Conversion of light into macroscopic helical motion

(2014) Supitchaya Iamsaard et al.   Nature Chemistry

"Nonswellable" Hydrogel Without Mechanical Hysteresis

(2014) H. Kamata et al.   SCIENCE

Modeling the Photoinduced Reconfiguration and Directed Motion of Polymer Gels

(2013) Olga Kuksenok et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Biomimetic Hydrogel-Based Actuating Systems

(2013) Leonid Ionov   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Photo-controlled Growth of Telechelic Polymers and End-linked Polymer Gels

(2013) Huaxing Zhou et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics

(2013) Sangbae Kim et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Bio-Origami Hydrogel Scaffolds Composed of Photocrosslinked PEG Bilayers

(2013) Mustapha Jamal et al.   Advanced Healthcare Materials

Rajiform locomotion: three-dimensional kinematics of the pectoral fin surface during swimming in the freshwater stingray Potamotrygon orbignyi

(2012) E. L. Blevins et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A tissue-engineered jellyfish with biomimetic propulsion

(2012) Janna C Nawroth et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Designing Responsive Buckled Surfaces by Halftone Gel Lithography

(2012) Jungwook Kim et al.   SCIENCE

Programmed buckling by controlled lateral swelling in a thin elastic sheet

(2011) M. A. Dias et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Experimental Study of Shape Transitions and Energy Scaling in Thin Non-Euclidean Plates

(2011) Yael Klein et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Growth, geometry, and mechanics of a blooming lily

(2011) H. Liang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Multigait soft robot

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

Differentially photo-crosslinked polymers enable self-assembling microfluidics

(2011) Mustapha Jamal et al.   Nature Communications

The mechanics of non-Euclidean plates

(2010) Eran Sharon et al.   Soft Matter

Toward an enhanced understanding and implementation of photopolymerization reactions

(2008) Christopher N. Bowman et al.   AICHE JOURNAL

Conical Defects in Growing Sheets

(2008) Martin Michael Müller et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Morphogenesis of Growing Soft Tissues

(2008) Julien Dervaux et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS