Kirigami‐Based Light‐Induced Shape‐Morphing and Locomotion

Photothermal Bimorph Actuators with In‐Built Cooler for Light Mills, Frequency Switches, and Soft Robots

(2019) Jingjing Li et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A Millimeter‐Scale Snail Robot Based on a Light‐Powered Liquid Crystal Elastomer Continuous Actuator

(2019) Mikołaj Rogóż et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Light or thermally-powered autonomous rolling of an elastomer rod

(2018) Chihyung Ahn et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Untethered Recyclable Tubular Actuators with Versatile Locomotion for Soft Continuum Robots

(2018) Xiaojie Qian et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Liquid-Crystalline Dynamic Networks Doped with Gold Nanorods Showing Enhanced Photocontrol of Actuation

(2018) Xili Lu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Soft Robotics

(2018) George M. Whitesides   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Programming the shape-shifting of flat soft matter

(2018) Teunis van Manen et al.   Materials Today

Motorizing fibres with geometric zero-energy modes

(2018) Arthur Baumann et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Bioinspired microrobots

(2018) Stefano Palagi et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion

(2018) Wenqi Hu et al.   NATURE

In-built thermo-mechanical cooperative feedback mechanism for self-propelled multimodal locomotion and electricity generation

(2018) Xiao-Qiao Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Photomodulated Tricolor-Changing Artificial Flowers

(2018) Bo Zuo et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

4D Printed Actuators with Soft-Robotic Functions

(2017) María López-Valdeolivas et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Dynamic Switching of Helical Microgel Ribbons

(2017) Hang Zhang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Making waves in a photoactive polymer film

(2017) Anne Helene Gelebart et al.   NATURE

A light-driven artificial flytrap

(2017) Owies M. Wani et al.   Nature Communications

Steering with light: indexable photomotility in liquid crystalline polymers

(2017) Mahnoush Babaei et al.   RSC Advances

Sequential self-folding of polymer sheets

(2017) Ying Liu et al.   Science Advances

Modeling out-of-plane actuation in thin-film nematic polymer networks: From chiral ribbons to auto-origami boxes via twist and topology

(2017) Vianney Gimenez-Pinto et al.   Scientific Reports

Programmable Kiri-Kirigami Metamaterials

(2016) Yichao Tang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photocontrol of fluid slugs in liquid crystal polymer microactuators

(2016) Jiu-an Lv et al.   NATURE

Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots

(2016) Stefano Palagi et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

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

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

Photomotility of polymers

(2016) Jeong Jae Wie et al.   Nature Communications

Light-Driven Soft Robot Mimics Caterpillar Locomotion in Natural Scale

(2016) Mikołaj Rogóż et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Light-Fueled Microscopic Walkers

(2015) Hao Zeng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Design, fabrication and control of soft robots

(2015) Daniela Rus et al.   NATURE

Origami structures with a critical transition to bistability arising from hidden degrees of freedom

(2015) Jesse L. Silverberg et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

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

Soft Grippers Using Micro-fibrillar Adhesives for Transfer Printing

(2014) Sukho Song et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2014) Jun-Hee Na et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

New strategies and implications for the photoalignment of liquid crystalline polymers

(2014) Takahiro Seki   POLYMER JOURNAL

Using origami design principles to fold reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials

(2014) J. L. Silverberg et al.   SCIENCE

Swimming by reciprocal motion at low Reynolds number

(2014) Tian Qiu et al.   Nature Communications

Wavelength-Selective, IR Light-Driven Hinges Based on Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Composites

(2013) Ryan R. Kohlmeyer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Contactless, photoinitiated snap-through in azobenzene-functionalized polymers

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

Angular deficits in flat space: remotely controllable apertures in nematic solid sheets

(2013) C. D. Modes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Controlled Flight of a Biologically Inspired, Insect-Scale Robot

(2013) K. Y. Ma et al.   SCIENCE

Self-Propelled Nanotools

(2012) Alexander A. Solovev et al.   ACS Nano

Engineering of Complex Order and the Macroscopic Deformation of Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

(2012) Laurens T. de Haan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photo-origami—Bending and folding polymers with light

(2012) Jennie Ryu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Photoalignment of liquid crystals: basics and current trends

(2011) Oleg Yaroshchuk et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Multigait soft robot

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

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

(2010) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

First jump of microgel; actuation speed enhancement by elastic instability

(2010) Howon Lee et al.   Soft Matter

Photomobile Polymer Materials: Towards Light-Driven Plastic Motors

(2008) Munenori Yamada et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A high frequency photodriven polymer oscillator

(2008) Timothy J. White et al.   Soft Matter