Complex multiphase organohydrogels with programmable mechanics toward adaptive soft-matter machines

Mechanically Versatile Soft Machines through Laminar Jamming

(2018) Yashraj S. Narang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Soft Robotic Grippers

(2018) Jun Shintake et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Unravelling the Correlation between Charge Mobility and Cocrystallization in Rod-Rod Block Copolymers for High-Performance Field-Effect Transistors

(2018) Mingjing Zhu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Controllable and reversible tuning of material rigidity for robot applications

(2018) Liyu Wang et al.   Materials Today

Functional properties of silicone/ethanol soft-actuator composites

(2018) Aslan Miriyev et al.   MATERIALS & DESIGN

Confinement-driven radical change in a sequence of rotator phases: a study on n-octacosane

(2018) Sujeet Dutta et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

An under-actuated origami gripper with adjustable stiffness joints for multiple grasp modes

(2017) Amir Firouzeh et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Liquid Metal-Conductive Thermoplastic Elastomer Integration for Low-Voltage Stiffness Tuning

(2017) Steven Rich et al.   Advanced Materials Technologies

Electrically Actuated Hydraulic Solids 

(2016) Jeffrey Ian Lipton et al.   ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS

Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self-Healing Capability

(2016) Alice Tonazzini et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Morphing Metal and Elastomer Bicontinuous Foams for Reversible Stiffness, Shape Memory, and Self-Healing Soft Machines

(2016) Ilse M. Van Meerbeek et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

Materials that couple sensing, actuation, computation, and communication

(2015) M. A. McEvoy et al.   SCIENCE

The role of mechanics in biological and bio-inspired systems

(2015) Paul Egan et al.   Nature Communications

Effect of graphene on the thermophysical properties of melamine-urea-formaldehyde/N-hexadecane microcapsules

(2015) Bingyang Wu et al.   RSC Advances

Mechanically Adaptive Organic Transistors for Implantable Electronics

(2014) Jonathan Reeder et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Size-Dependent Phase Behavior of the Hexadecane–Octadecane System Confined in Nanoporous Glass

(2014) Li Ping Wang et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Co-crystallization phase transformations in all π-conjugated block copolymers with different main-chain moieties

(2014) Yi-Huan Lee et al.   Nanoscale

Confined Crystallization of n-Hexadecane Located inside Microcapsules or outside Submicrometer Silica Nanospheres: A Comparison Study

(2013) Dongsheng Fu et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Shape Memory Hydrogels via Micellar Copolymerization of Acrylic Acid and n-Octadecyl Acrylate in Aqueous Media

(2013) Cigdem Bilici et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Colloidal Analogues of Charged and Uncharged Polymer Chains with Tunable Stiffness

(2012) Hanumantha Rao Vutukuri et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Tunable elastic stiffness with microconfined magnetorheological domains at low magnetic field

(2010) Carmel Majidi et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials

(2010) Martien A. Cohen Stuart et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Photodegradable Hydrogels for Dynamic Tuning of Physical and Chemical Properties

(2009) April M. Kloxin et al.   SCIENCE

MATERIALS SCIENCE: Adaptive Composites

(2008) R. Vaia et al.   SCIENCE

Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Nanocomposites Inspired by the Sea Cucumber Dermis

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