Self-Folded Gripper-Like Architectures from Stimuli-Responsive Bilayers

Hydraulic hydrogel actuators and robots optically and sonically camouflaged in water

(2017) Hyunwoo Yuk et al.   Nature Communications

Soft Actuators for Small-Scale Robotics

(2016) Lindsey Hines et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Programmable shape transformation of elastic spherical domes

(2016) Arif M. Abdullah et al.   Soft Matter

A Self-Folding HydrogelIn VitroModel for Ductal Carcinoma

(2016) Hye Rin Kwag et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART C-METHODS

Self-Folding Thermo-Magnetically Responsive Soft Microgrippers

(2015) Joyce C. Breger et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Toward a New Generation of Electrically Controllable Hygromorphic Soft Actuators

(2015) Silvia Taccola et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Undulatory Locomotion of Magnetic Multilink Nanoswimmers

(2015) Bumjin Jang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

(2015) Taylor H. Ware et al.   SCIENCE

Ultra-Small, High-Frequency, and Substrate-Immune Microtube Inductors Transformed from 2D to 3D

(2015) Xin Yu et al.   Scientific Reports

Pneumatic Networks for Soft Robotics that Actuate Rapidly

(2014) Bobak Mosadegh et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Stimuli-Responsive Theragrippers for Chemomechanical Controlled Release

(2014) Kate Malachowski et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A chemo-mechanical model of lithiation in silicon

(2014) Hui Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Self-Folding Single Cell Grippers

(2014) Kate Malachowski et al.   NANO LETTERS

25th Anniversary Article: A Soft Future: From Robots and Sensor Skin to Energy Harvesters

(2013) Siegfried Bauer et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Slow, fast and furious: understanding the physics of plant movements

(2013) Yoël Forterre   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Light-Controlled Graphene-Elastin Composite Hydrogel Actuators

(2013) Eddie Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

3D hierarchical architectures based on self-rolled-up silicon nitride membranes

(2013) Paul Froeter et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Variable stiffness material based on rigid low-melting-point-alloy microstructures embedded in soft poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS)

(2013) Bryan E. Schubert et al.   RSC Advances

Hierarchical Multi-Step Folding of Polymer Bilayers

(2012) Georgi Stoychev et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A Strategy for Depositing Different Types of Cells in Three Dimensions to Mimic Tubular Structures in Tissues

(2012) Bo Yuan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Biopsy with Thermally-Responsive Untethered Microtools

(2012) Evin Gultepe et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Laser triggered sequential folding of microstructures

(2012) Kate E. Laflin et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Self-folding thin-film materials: From nanopolyhedra to graphene origami

(2012) Vivek B. Shenoy et al.   MRS BULLETIN

On-Chip Inductors with Self-Rolled-Up SiNx Nanomembrane Tubes: A Novel Design Platform for Extreme Miniaturization

(2012) Wen Huang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Rolled-up magnetic microdrillers: towards remotely controlled minimally invasive surgery

(2012) Wang Xi et al.   Nanoscale

Enhanced optical axial confinement in asymmetric microtube cavities rolled up from circular-shaped nanomembranes

(2012) Vladimir A. Bolaños Quiñones et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Controlled Folding of 2D Au-Polymer Brush Composites into 3D Microstructures

(2011) Tim S. Kelby et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Microchemomechanical Systems

(2011) Jatinder S. Randhawa et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Self-folding all-polymer thermoresponsive microcapsules

(2011) Georgi Stoychev et al.   Soft Matter

Differentially photo-crosslinked polymers enable self-assembling microfluidics

(2011) Mustapha Jamal et al.   Nature Communications

Enzymatically Triggered Actuation of Miniaturized Tools

(2010) Noy Bassik et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Self-Assembled Ultra-Compact Energy Storage Elements Based on Hybrid Nanomembranes

(2010) Carlos César Bof Bufon et al.   NANO LETTERS

Geometry Effect on the Strain-Induced Self-Rolling of Semiconductor Membranes

(2010) Ik Su Chun et al.   NANO LETTERS

Lab-in-a-Tube: Detection of Individual Mouse Cells for Analysis in Flexible Split-Wall Microtube Resonator Sensors

(2010) Elliot J. Smith et al.   NANO LETTERS

High-Strain Shape-Memory Polymers

(2009) Walter Voit et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Reversible Actuation of Microstructures by Surface-Chemical Modification of Thin-Film Bilayers

(2009) Jatinder S. Randhawa et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Inhomogeneous swelling of a gel in equilibrium with a solvent and mechanical load

(2009) Wei Hong et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

Tetherless thermobiochemically actuated microgrippers

(2009) Timothy G. Leong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pick-and-Place Using Chemically Actuated Microgrippers

(2008) Jatinder S. Randhawa et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A theory of coupled diffusion and large deformation in polymeric gels

(2007) Wei Hong et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS