A New Strategy of Discretionarily Reconfigurable Actuators Based on Self‐Healing Elastomers for Diverse Soft Robots

Near‐Infrared Photodriven Self‐Sustained Oscillation of Liquid‐Crystalline Network Film with Predesignated Polydopamine Coating

(2020) Ruochen Lan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Liquid-Crystalline Soft Actuators with Switchable Thermal Reprogrammability

(2020) Yahe Wu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

“Self-Lockable” Liquid Crystalline Diels-Alder Dynamic Network Actuators with Room Temperature Programmability and Solution Reprocessability

(2020) Zhi-Chao Jiang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Strong, Self‐Healable, and Recyclable Visible‐Light‐Responsive Hydrogel Actuators

(2020) Zhen Jiang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Design Rationale for Stimuli‐Responsive, Semi‐interpenetrating Polymer Network Hydrogels–A Quantitative Approach

(2020) Nupur Gupta et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Recent Progress in Biomimetic Anisotropic Hydrogel Actuators

(2019) Xiaoxia Le et al.   Advanced Science

Organic Molecule-Driven Polymeric Actuators

(2019) Huijuan Lin et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Selective Decrosslinking in Liquid Crystal Polymer Actuators for Optical Reconfiguration of Origami and Light-Fueled Locomotion

(2019) Zhi-Chao Jiang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Ultrafast Fabrication of Gradient Nanoporous All‐Polysaccharide Films as Strong, Superfast, and Multiresponsive Actuators

(2019) Huilin Cui et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Photocrosslinking Patterning of Single-Layered Polymer Actuators for Controllable Motility and Automatic Devices

(2019) Jiang Wei et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Biomimetic Materials with Multiple Protective Functionalities

(2019) Zenghe Liu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A Highly Efficient Self‐Healing Elastomer with Unprecedented Mechanical Properties

(2019) Luzhi Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A humidity-driven flexible carbon nitride film with multiple deformations

(2019) Xueting Wang et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Soft robots based on dielectric elastomer actuators: a review

(2019) Ujjaval Gupta et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Robust, Reprocessable, Reconfigurable Cellulose-based Multiple-Shape Memory Polymer Enabled by Dynamic Metal-ligand Bonds

(2019) Wentao Wang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

3D Printable and Reconfigurable Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Light‐Induced Shape Memory via Dynamic Bond Exchange

(2019) Emily C. Davidson et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Reprocessable Thermoset Soft Actuators

(2019) Yang Yang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Monolithic shape-programmable dielectric liquid crystal elastomer actuators

(2019) Zoey S. Davidson et al.   Science Advances

Dual Salt- and Thermoresponsive Programmable Bilayer Hydrogel Actuators with Pseudo-Interpenetrating Double-Network Structures

(2018) Shengwei Xiao et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Untethered Recyclable Tubular Actuators with Versatile Locomotion for Soft Continuum Robots

(2018) Xiaojie Qian et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Adaptable liquid crystal elastomers with transesterification-based bond exchange reactions

(2018) Drew W. Hanzon et al.   Soft Matter

Programming a crystalline shape memory polymer network with thermo- and photo-reversible bonds toward a single-component soft robot

(2018) Binjie Jin et al.   Science Advances

A facile dynamic crosslinked healable poly(oxime-urethane) elastomer with high elastic recovery and recyclability

(2018) Daihua Fu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

A readily programmable, fully reversible shape-switching material

(2018) Matthew K. McBride et al.   Science Advances

Reconfigurable photoactuator through synergistic use of photochemical and photothermal effects

(2018) Markus Lahikainen et al.   Nature Communications

Oxime-Based and Catalyst-Free Dynamic Covalent Polyurethanes

(2017) Wen-Xing Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Reversible bidirectional bending of hydrogel-based bilayer actuators

(2017) Xue Li et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Bilayered polyurethane/dipole–dipole and H-bonding interaction reinforced hydrogels as thermo-responsive soft manipulators

(2017) Haiyan Jia et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Tough Hydrogels with Programmable and Complex Shape Deformations by Ion Dip-Dyeing and Transfer Printing

(2016) Xin Peng et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Soft Actuators for Small-Scale Robotics

(2016) Lindsey Hines et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Making and Remaking Dynamic 3D Structures by Shining Light on Flat Liquid Crystalline Vitrimer Films without a Mold

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

Polydopamine coated shape memory polymer: enabling light triggered shape recovery, light controlled shape reprogramming and surface functionalization

(2016) Zhen Li et al.   Chemical Science

A plant tendril mimic soft actuator with phototunable bending and chiral twisting motion modes

(2016) Meng Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Novel Hydrogel Actuator Inspired by Reversible Mussel Adhesive Protein Chemistry

(2014) Bruce P. Lee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Supramolecular Lego Assembly Towards Three-Dimensional Multi-Responsive Hydrogels

(2014) Chunxin Ma et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

An instant multi-responsive porous polymer actuator driven by solvent molecule sorption

(2014) Qiang Zhao et al.   Nature Communications

Reversible patterning and actuation of hydrogels by electrically assisted ionoprinting

(2013) Etienne Palleau et al.   Nature Communications