Programmable Actuation of Porous Poly(Ionic Liquid) Membranes by Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

Dual-Stimuli-Responsive Microparticles

(2015) Ekaterina Sokolovskaya et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Polypyrrole Asymmetric Bilayer Artificial Muscle: Driven Reactions, Cooperative Actuation, and Osmotic Effects

(2015) Masaki Fuchiwaki et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Sensing Solvents with Ultrasensitive Porous Poly(ionic liquid) Actuators

(2015) Qiang Zhao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Toward a New Generation of Electrically Controllable Hygromorphic Soft Actuators

(2015) Silvia Taccola et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Graphene Fibriform Responsor for Sensing Heat, Humidity, and Mechanical Changes

(2015) Fei Zhao et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Tunable Photothermal Actuators Based on a Pre-programmed Aligned Nanostructure

(2015) Jue Deng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Ultralight anisotropic foams from layered aligned carbon nanotube sheets

(2015) Shaghayegh Faraji et al.   Nanoscale

The Geometric Design and Fabrication of Actuating Cellular Structures

(2015) Lorenzo Guiducci et al.   Advanced Materials Interfaces

Actuating Porous Polyimide Films

(2014) Yaoming Zhang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Poly(vinyl alcohol) Reinforced and Toughened with Poly(dopamine)-Treated Graphene Oxide, and Its Use for Humidity Sensing

(2014) Sang-Ha Hwang et al.   ACS Nano

Biocompatible Electromechanical Actuators Composed of Silk-Conducting Polymer Composites

(2014) Isabella S. Romero et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Electrochemical and electromechanical properties of carbon black/carbon fiber composite polymer actuator with higher performance than single-walled carbon nanotube polymer actuator

(2014) Naohiro Terasawa et al.   ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA

Thermoresponsive polymerized gemini dicationic ionic liquid

(2014) Yongjun Men et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Nanoporous frameworks exhibiting multiple stimuli responsiveness

(2014) Pintu K. Kundu et al.   Nature Communications

Conjugated polymer composite artificial muscle with solvent-induced anisotropic mechanical actuation

(2014) Xin Lu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Ultrafast Graphene Oxide Humidity Sensors

(2013) Stefano Borini et al.   ACS Nano

Graphene Fibers with Predetermined Deformation as Moisture-Triggered Actuators and Robots

(2013) Huhu Cheng et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Red-Light-Controllable Liquid-Crystal Soft Actuators via Low-Power Excited Upconversion Based on Triplet–Triplet Annihilation

(2013) Zhen Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Poly(ionic liquid)s: An update

(2013) Jiayin Yuan et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

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

(2013) M. Ma et al.   SCIENCE

Bioinspired materials that self-shape through programmed microstructures

(2013) André R. Studart et al.   Soft Matter

Three-dimensional shape transformations of hydrogel sheets induced by small-scale modulation of internal stresses

(2013) Zi Liang Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Self-shaping composites with programmable bioinspired microstructures

(2013) Randall M. Erb et al.   Nature Communications

Hierarchical Multi-Step Folding of Polymer Bilayers

(2012) Georgi Stoychev et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

pH-Dependent Release of Doxorubicin from Fast Photo-Cross-Linkable Polymersomes Based on Benzophenone Units

(2012) Mohamed A. Yassin et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Aligned carbon nanotube/polymer composite film with anisotropic tribological behavior

(2012) Hui Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Electrically, Chemically, and Photonically Powered Torsional and Tensile Actuation of Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Yarn Muscles

(2012) M. D. Lima et al.   SCIENCE

Electromechanical Actuators Based on Graphene and Graphene/Fe3O4 Hybrid Paper

(2011) Jiajie Liang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

How wet paper curls

(2011) E. Reyssat et al.   EPL

An excursion into the design space of biomimetic architectured biphasic actuators

(2011) Sébastien Turcaud et al.   International Journal of Materials Research

Edge Effects Determine the Direction of Bilayer Bending

(2011) Silas Alben et al.   NANO LETTERS

An Asymmetrically Surface-Modified Graphene Film Electrochemical Actuator

(2010) Xuejun Xie et al.   ACS Nano

Ionic Liquid Monomers and Polymers as Precursors of Highly Conductive, Mesoporous, Graphitic Carbon Nanostructures

(2010) Jiayin Yuan et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

First jump of microgel; actuation speed enhancement by elastic instability

(2010) Howon Lee et al.   Soft Matter

A Mechanical Actuator Driven Electrochemically by Artificial Molecular Muscles

(2009) Bala Krishna Juluri et al.   ACS Nano

Biomaterial systems for mechanosensing and actuation

(2009) Peter Fratzl et al.   NATURE

The Design of Polymeric Ionic Liquids for the Preparation of Functional Materials

(2009) Omar Green et al.   Polymer Reviews

Stimuli-responsive monolayers for biotechnology

(2009) Himabindu Nandivada et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Aligned Carbon Nanotube/Polymer Composite Films with Robust Flexibility, High Transparency, and Excellent Conductivity

(2007) Huisheng Peng   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY