Light-powered soft steam engines for self-adaptive oscillation and biomimetic swimming

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Thickness-dependent wrinkling of PDMS films for programmable mechanochromic responses

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Coupling magnetic and plasmonic anisotropy in hybrid nanorods for mechanochromic responses

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Magnetically Tunable Plasmon Coupling of Au Nanoshells Enabled by Space-Free Confined Growth

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Polarization‐Modulated Multidirectional Photothermal Actuators

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Bioinspired Actuators based on Stimuli‐Responsive Polymers

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Stimuli-Responsive Optical Nanomaterials

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Space-Confined Seeded Growth of Cu Nanorods with Strong Surface Plasmon Resonance for Photothermal Actuation

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Insect-scale fast moving and ultrarobust soft robot

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Soft phototactic swimmer based on self-sustained hydrogel oscillator

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Hydrogels as an Emerging Material Platform for Solar Water Purification

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Artificial phototropism for omnidirectional tracking and harvesting of light

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Light-fuelled freestyle self-oscillators

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

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Printing ferromagnetic domains for untethered fast-transforming soft materials

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

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An Anisotropic Hydrogel Actuator Enabling Earthworm-Like Directed Peristaltic Crawling

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Chemical Transformation of Colloidal Nanostructures with Morphological Preservation by Surface-Protection with Capping Ligands

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Making waves in a photoactive polymer film

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Fast-moving soft electronic fish

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An autonomous actuator driven by fluctuations in ambient humidity

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A chaotic self-oscillating sunlight-driven polymer actuator

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Thermoresponsive actuation enabled by permittivity switching in an electrostatically anisotropic hydrogel

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Transparent hydrogel with enhanced water retention capacity by introducing highly hydratable salt

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An excitable signal integrator couples to an idling cytoskeletal oscillator to drive cell migration

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Aerial shaking performance of wet Anna's hummingbirds

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Temporal and spatial oscillations in bacteria

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