Solvent-assisted programming of flat polymer sheets into reconfigurable and self-healing 3D structures

Polydopamine nanoparticles doped in liquid crystal elastomers for producing dynamic 3D structures

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Making and Remaking Dynamic 3D Structures by Shining Light on Flat Liquid Crystalline Vitrimer Films without a Mold

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Stress Relaxation, Dynamics, and Plasticity of Transient Polymer Networks

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Cationic antimicrobial copolymer poly (methylmethacrylate-co-PHMG) decontaminates water

(2016) Oren Aviv et al.   POLYMERS FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES

“ 2D or not 2D”: Shape-programming polymer sheets

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Vitrimers: permanent organic networks with glass-like fluidity

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Polydopamine coated shape memory polymer: enabling light triggered shape recovery, light controlled shape reprogramming and surface functionalization

(2016) Zhen Li et al.   Chemical Science

Multi-shape active composites by 3D printing of digital shape memory polymers

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Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-Clay Nanocomposite Hydrogels with Responsive Bending Property as Temperature-Controlled Manipulators

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Toward a New Generation of Electrically Controllable Hygromorphic Soft Actuators

(2015) Silvia Taccola et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Self-folding graphene-polymer bilayers

(2015) Tao Deng et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

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Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

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Assembly of micro/nanomaterials into complex, three-dimensional architectures by compressive buckling

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Sequential Folding using Light-activated Polystyrene Sheet

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Origami-inspired active graphene-based paper for programmable instant self-folding walking devices

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Transfer Printing of Self-Folding Polymer–Metal Bilayer Particles

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Shape-Reprogrammable Polymers: Encoding, Erasing, and Re-Encoding

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Using origami design principles to fold reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials

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A method for building self-folding machines

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Carbon nanotube–vitrimer composite for facile and efficient photo-welding of epoxy

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An instant multi-responsive porous polymer actuator driven by solvent molecule sorption

(2014) Qiang Zhao et al.   Nature Communications

Polylactide Vitrimers

(2014) Jacob P. Brutman et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Optically healable polymers

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Geometry of Miura-folded metamaterials

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A Tissue-Like Printed Material

(2013) G. Villar et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2013) Zi Liang Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Reversible patterning and actuation of hydrogels by electrically assisted ionoprinting

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Shape-Programmed Folding of Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Bilayers

(2012) Georgi Stoychev et al.   ACS Nano

Laser triggered sequential folding of microstructures

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

Metal-Catalyzed Transesterification for Healing and Assembling of Thermosets

(2012) Mathieu Capelot et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Designing Responsive Buckled Surfaces by Halftone Gel Lithography

(2012) Jungwook Kim et al.   SCIENCE

Catalytic Control of the Vitrimer Glass Transition

(2012) Mathieu Capelot et al.   ACS Macro Letters

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

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

Mechanistic considerations of guanidine-catalyzed reactions

(2011) Xiao Fu et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

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

Photodegradable, Photoadaptable Hydrogels via Radical-Mediated Disulfide Fragmentation Reaction

(2011) Benjamin D. Fairbanks et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Optically- and Thermally-Responsive Programmable Materials Based on Carbon Nanotube-Hydrogel Polymer Composites

(2011) Xiaobo Zhang et al.   NANO LETTERS

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(2011) Mark Burnworth et al.   NATURE

Silica-Like Malleable Materials from Permanent Organic Networks

(2011) D. Montarnal et al.   SCIENCE

DNA Origami with Complex Curvatures in Three-Dimensional Space

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Self-folding of polymer sheets using local light absorption

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Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials

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