Programming a crystalline shape memory polymer network with thermo- and photo-reversible bonds toward a single-component soft robot

Sequential self-folding of polymer sheets

(2017) Ying Liu et al.   Science Advances

Fast-moving soft electronic fish

(2017) Tiefeng Li et al.   Science Advances

Thermoset Shape-Memory Polyurethane with Intrinsic Plasticity Enabled by Transcarbamoylation

(2016) Ning Zheng et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

(2016) Yang Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Advancing Reversible Shape Memory by Tuning the Polymer Network Architecture

(2016) Qiaoxi Li et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Photoinscription of Chain Anisotropy into Polymer Networks

(2016) Yuan Meng et al.   MACROMOLECULES

An integrated design and fabrication strategy for entirely soft, autonomous robots

(2016) Michael Wehner et al.   NATURE

Exploring Dynamic Equilibrium of Diels–Alder Reaction for Solid State Plasticity in Remoldable Shape Memory Polymer Network

(2016) Guogao Zhang et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Shape memory polymer network with thermally distinct elasticity and plasticity

(2016) Q. Zhao et al.   Science Advances

Design, fabrication and control of soft robots

(2015) Daniela Rus et al.   NATURE

Recent progress in shape memory polymer: New behavior, enabling materials, and mechanistic understanding

(2015) Qian Zhao et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

(2015) Taylor H. Ware et al.   SCIENCE

A 3D-printed, functionally graded soft robot powered by combustion

(2015) N. W. Bartlett et al.   SCIENCE

Shape Actuation via Internal Stress-Induced Crystallization of Dual-Cure Networks

(2015) Yuan Meng et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Switchable Micropatterned Surface Topographies Mediated by Reversible Shape Memory

(2014) Sara A. Turner et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Wearable soft sensing suit for human gait measurement

(2014) Yiğit Mengüç et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH

Tunable Temperature Memory Effect of Photo-Cross-Linked Star PCL–PEG Networks

(2014) Lin Wang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Shapeshifting: Reversible Shape Memory in Semicrystalline Elastomers

(2014) Jing Zhou et al.   MACROMOLECULES

A method for building self-folding machines

(2014) S. Felton et al.   SCIENCE

A Resilient, Untethered Soft Robot

(2014) Michael T. Tolley et al.   Soft Robotics

Designed Autonomic Motion in Heterogeneous Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ)-Gelatin Composites by Synchronicity

(2013) Matthew L. Smith et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Reversible Bidirectional Shape-Memory Polymers

(2013) Marc Behl et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Temperature-memory polymer actuators

(2013) M. Behl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics

(2013) Sangbae Kim et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Photo-origami—Bending and folding polymers with light

(2012) Jennie Ryu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Camouflage and Display for Soft Machines

(2012) S. A. Morin et al.   SCIENCE

Designing Responsive Buckled Surfaces by Halftone Gel Lithography

(2012) Jungwook Kim et al.   SCIENCE

Semi-crystalline two-way shape memory elastomer

(2011) Junjun Li et al.   POLYMER

Synthesis, Properties, and Light-Induced Shape Memory Effect of Multiblock Polyesterurethanes Containing Biodegradable Segments and Pendant Cinnamamide Groups

(2010) Linbo Wu et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Soft robotics: Biological inspiration, state of the art, and future research

(2008) Deepak Trivedi et al.   Applied Bionics and Biomechanics

Two-Way Reversible Shape Memory in a Semicrystalline Network

(2007) Taekwoong Chung et al.   MACROMOLECULES