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Fabrication of Moisture-Responsive Crystalline Smart Materials for Water Harvesting and Electricity Transduction

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A comprehensive review on the state-of-the-art of piezoelectric energy harvesting

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Recent Progress in Biomimetic Anisotropic Hydrogel Actuators

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High‐Performance Hierarchical Black‐Phosphorous‐Based Soft Electrochemical Actuators in Bioinspired Applications

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Protein Self-Assemblies That Can Generate, Hold, and Discharge Electric Potential in Response to Changes in Relative Humidity

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Hydraulically amplified self-healing electrostatic actuators with muscle-like performance

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High-performance graphdiyne-based electrochemical actuators

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Covalent-supramolecular hybrid polymers as muscle-inspired anisotropic actuators

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Metallic molybdenum disulfide nanosheet-based electrochemical actuators

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Harnessing the hygroscopic and biofluorescent behaviors of genetically tractable microbial cells to design biohybrid wearables

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One Single Graphene Oxide Film for Responsive Actuation

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Bio-inspired, Moisture-Powered Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Yarn Muscles

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Scaling up nanoscale water-driven energy conversion into evaporation-driven engines and generators

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