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An Autonomous Soft Actuator with Light‐Driven Self‐Sustained Wavelike Oscillation for Phototactic Self‐Locomotion and Power Generation

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Ultrarobust Ti3C2Tx MXene-Based Soft Actuators via Bamboo-Inspired Mesoscale Assembly of Hybrid Nanostructures

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Insights into the Photothermal Conversion of 2D MXene Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Mechanism, and Applications

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Stimuli-Responsive MXene-Based Actuators

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Highly Conductive MXene Film Actuator Based on Moisture Gradients

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Multifunctional Soft Actuators Based on Anisotropic Paper/Polymer Bilayer Toward Bioinspired Applications

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

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Plasmonic Ti3C2Tx MXene Enables Highly Efficient Photothermal Conversion for Healable and Transparent Wearable Device

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Biomimetic Locomotion of Electrically Powered “Janus” Soft Robots Using a Liquid Crystal Polymer

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Leaf-inspired multiresponsive MXene-based actuator for programmable smart devices

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MXene artificial muscles based on ionically cross-linked Ti3C2Tx electrode for kinetic soft robotics

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Direct-Ink-Write 3D Printing of Hydrogels into Biomimetic Soft Robots

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Light-fuelled freestyle self-oscillators

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Ti3C2Tx MXene-graphene composite films for wearable strain sensors featured with high sensitivity and large range of linear response

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Biomimetic Color Changing Anisotropic Soft Actuators with Integrated Metal Nanowire Percolation Network Transparent Heaters for Soft Robotics

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Molecular-channel driven actuator with considerations for multiple configurations and color switching

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Stimuli-Responsive 2D Materials Beyond Graphene

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Carbon-Based Photothermal Actuators

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

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Graphene-Based Actuator with Integrated-Sensing Function

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Plasmonic‐Assisted Graphene Oxide Artificial Muscles

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Reconfigurable photoactuator through synergistic use of photochemical and photothermal effects

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Making waves in a photoactive polymer film

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Multiresponsive Bidirectional Bending Actuators Fabricated by a Pencil-on-Paper Method

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Photoactuators for Direct Optical-to-Mechanical Energy Conversion: From Nanocomponent Assembly to Macroscopic Deformation

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Ion-Exchange and Cation Solvation Reactions in Ti3C2 MXene

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A chaotic self-oscillating sunlight-driven polymer actuator

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A Graphene-Based Bimorph Structure for Design of High Performance Photoactuators

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Synthesis and characterization of high temperature proton exchange membrane from isocyanatopropyltriethoxysilane and hydroxyethane diphosphonic acid

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Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Carbides

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