Directed Motility of Hygroresponsive Biomimetic Actuators

Toward a New Generation of Electrically Controllable Hygromorphic Soft Actuators

(2015) Silvia Taccola et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Molecularly Engineered Dual-Crosslinked Hydrogel with Ultrahigh Mechanical Strength, Toughness, and Good Self-Recovery

(2015) Peng Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Dual-Responsive Supra-Amphiphilic Polypseudorotaxane Constructed from a Water-Soluble Pillar[7]arene and an Azobenzene-Containing Random Copolymer

(2015) Xiaodong Chi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Ceramic particulate thermal barrier surface coatings for glass fibre-reinforced epoxy composites

(2015) Piyanuch Luangtriratana et al.   MATERIALS & DESIGN

Photogated humidity-driven motility

(2015) Lidong Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Sensitive Humidity-Driven Reversible and Bidirectional Bending of Nanocellulose Thin Films as Bio-Inspired Actuation

(2015) Miao Wang et al.   Advanced Materials Interfaces

Photoresponsive Soft-Robotic Platform: Biomimetic Fabrication and Remote Actuation

(2014) Weitao Jiang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Moisture-Activated Torsional Graphene-Fiber Motor

(2014) Huhu Cheng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Measurement of the Distribution of Residual Stresses in Layered Thick-Walled GFRP Pipes

(2014) H. W. Carpenter et al.   EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS

Recycling solid residues recovered from glass fibre-reinforced composites – A review applied to wind turbine blade materials

(2014) Justine Beauson et al.   JOURNAL OF REINFORCED PLASTICS AND COMPOSITES

Humidity-Responsive Liquid Crystalline Polymer Actuators with an Asymmetry in the Molecular Trigger That Bend, Fold, and Curl

(2014) Laurens T. de Haan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Conversion of light into macroscopic helical motion

(2014) Supitchaya Iamsaard et al.   Nature Chemistry

Bioinspired structural materials

(2014) Ulrike G. K. Wegst et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Actuation of shape-memory colloidal fibres of Janus ellipsoids

(2014) Aayush A. Shah et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Bacillus spores as building blocks for stimuli-responsive materials and nanogenerators

(2014) Xi Chen et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Fabrications and Applications of Stimulus-Responsive Polymer Films and Patterns on Surfaces: A Review

(2014) Jem-Kun Chen et al.   Materials

Actuation based on thermo/photosalient effect: a biogenic smart hybrid driven by light and heat

(2014) Subash Chandra Sahoo et al.   RSC Advances

Humidity-Responsive Bilayer Actuators Based on a Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Network

(2013) Mian Dai et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Humidity-Sensitive Polypyrrole Films for Electro-Active Polymer Actuators

(2013) Hidenori Okuzaki et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Agarose drug delivery systems upgraded by surfactants inclusion: Critical role of the pore architecture

(2013) T. Marras-Marquez et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

Magnetic responsive polymer composite materials

(2013) Julie Thévenot et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Large negative thermal expansion of a polymer driven by a submolecular conformational change

(2013) Xingyuan Shen et al.   Nature Chemistry

Bio-Inspired Polymer Composite Actuator and Generator Driven by Water Gradients

(2013) M. Ma et al.   SCIENCE

Reversible patterning and actuation of hydrogels by electrically assisted ionoprinting

(2013) Etienne Palleau et al.   Nature Communications

Ultrahigh humidity sensitivity of graphene oxide

(2013) Hengchang Bi et al.   Scientific Reports

Shape-Programmed Folding of Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Bilayers

(2012) Georgi Stoychev et al.   ACS Nano

Hierarchical Multi-Step Folding of Polymer Bilayers

(2012) Georgi Stoychev et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

How the Cucumber Tendril Coils and Overwinds

(2012) S. J. Gerbode et al.   SCIENCE

Expansion–contraction of photoresponsive artificial muscle regulated by host–guest interactions

(2012) Yoshinori Takashima et al.   Nature Communications

The mechanics of explosive dispersal and self-burial in the seeds of the filaree, Erodium cicutarium (Geraniaceae)

(2011) D. Evangelista et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Three-dimensional actuators transformed from the programmed two-dimensional structures via bending, twisting and folding mechanisms

(2011) Kwang-Un Jeong et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Bending and twisting of soft materials by non-homogenous swelling

(2011) Douglas P. Holmes et al.   Soft Matter

Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials

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

Hygromorphs: from pine cones to biomimetic bilayers

(2009) E. Reyssat et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Printed artificial cilia from liquid-crystal network actuators modularly driven by light

(2009) Casper L. van Oosten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Visualizing the 3D Internal Structure of Calcite Single Crystals Grown in Agarose Hydrogels

(2009) H. Li et al.   SCIENCE