Multi‐Responsive Bilayer Hydrogel Actuators with Programmable and Precisely Tunable Motions

Soft Robotic Manipulation and Locomotion with a 3D Printed Electroactive Hydrogel

(2018) Daehoon Han et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Combining 3D Printing with Electrospinning for Rapid Response and Enhanced Designability of Hydrogel Actuators

(2018) Tingting Chen et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A Fast, Reversible, and Robust Gradient Nanocomposite Hydrogel Actuator with Water-Promoted Thermal Response

(2018) Yun Tan et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Dually Heterogeneous Hydrogels via Dynamic and Supramolecular Cross-Links Tuning Discontinuous Spatial Ruptures

(2018) Heqin Huang et al.   ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Hydrogel ionotronics

(2018) Canhui Yang et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Muscle-Inspired Highly Anisotropic, Strong, Ion-Conductive Hydrogels

(2018) Weiqing Kong et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Robust Heterogeneous Hydrogels with Dynamic Nanocrystal-Polymer Interface

(2017) Heqin Huang et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Hydraulic hydrogel actuators and robots optically and sonically camouflaged in water

(2017) Hyunwoo Yuk et al.   Nature Communications

Ultrastretchable, transparent triboelectric nanogenerator as electronic skin for biomechanical energy harvesting and tactile sensing

(2017) Xiong Pu et al.   Science Advances

Stimuli-Responsive Programmed Specific Targeting in Nanomedicine

(2016) Sheng Wang et al.   ACS Nano

A Multiresponsive Anisotropic Hydrogel with Macroscopic 3D Complex Deformations

(2016) Chunxin Ma et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Soft Microrobots Employing Nonequilibrium Actuation via Plasmonic Heating

(2016) Ahmed Mourran et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Programmable Volume Phase Transition of Hydrogels Achieved by Large Thermal Hysteresis for Static-Motion Bilayer Actuators

(2016) Dowan Kim et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Visible-Light-Responsive Azopolymers with Inhibited π–π Stacking Enable Fully Reversible Photopatterning

(2016) Philipp Weis et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Fast response dry-type artificial molecular muscles with [c2]daisy chains

(2016) Kazuhisa Iwaso et al.   Nature Chemistry

Shape memory polymer network with thermally distinct elasticity and plasticity

(2016) Q. Zhao et al.   Science Advances

Self-Folding Thermo-Magnetically Responsive Soft Microgrippers

(2015) Joyce C. Breger et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Conductive “Smart” Hybrid Hydrogels with PNIPAM and Nanostructured Conductive Polymers

(2015) Ye Shi et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Unusual and Superfast Temperature-Triggered Actuators

(2015) Shaohua Jiang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Stretchable Hydrogel Electronics and Devices

(2015) Shaoting Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Self-Healing, Expansion-Contraction, and Shape-Memory Properties of a Preorganized Supramolecular Hydrogel through Host-Guest Interactions

(2015) Kohei Miyamae et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Modeling of Polyelectrolyte Gels in Equilibrium with Salt Solutions

(2015) Peter Košovan et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Thermoresponsive actuation enabled by permittivity switching in an electrostatically anisotropic hydrogel

(2015) Youn Soo Kim et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Light-Responsive Micelles of Spiropyran Initiated Hyperbranched Polyglycerol for Smart Drug Delivery

(2014) Suhyun Son et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Hydrogel-based actuators: possibilities and limitations

(2014) Leonid Ionov   Materials Today

Co-nonsolvency of PNiPAM at the transition between solvation mechanisms

(2014) I. Bischofberger et al.   Soft Matter

Biomimetic Hydrogel-Based Actuating Systems

(2013) Leonid Ionov   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Redox-Generated Mechanical Motion of a Supramolecular Polymeric Actuator Based on Host-Guest Interactions

(2013) Masaki Nakahata et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Co-Nonsolvency of Poly(n-isopropylacrylamide) in Deuterated Water/Ethanol Mixtures

(2013) Michael J. A. Hore et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Light-Controlled Graphene-Elastin Composite Hydrogel Actuators

(2013) Eddie Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Electro-actuated hydrogel walkers with dual responsive legs

(2013) Daniel Morales et al.   Soft Matter

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

(2011) Xiaobo Zhang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Large deformation behavior and effective network chain density of swollen poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)–Laponite nanocomposite hydrogels

(2011) Tao Wang et al.   Soft Matter