Smart elastomers have attracted great interest due to their excellent adaptability to changing environments and affinity to living organisms,characterized by their ability to undergo programmable deformations or prope...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52275290 and 51905222);the Research Project of State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Oscillation(No.MSV202419);Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)for Basic Theory and Key Technology of Tri-Co Robots(No.92248301);Opening Project of the Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering(Ministry of Education),Jilin University(No.KF2023006);Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province(No.SJCX23_2091)。
Autonomous,adaptable,and multimodal locomotion capabilities,which are crucial for the advanced intelligence of biological systems.A prominent focus of investigations in the domain of bionic soft robotics pertains to t...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52325302 and 52173012);Shanxi-Zheda Institute of Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering(No.2022SZ-FR005)。
Achieving continuous motions typically requires dynamic external stimuli for cyclic deformation,or crafted geometries with intricate modules to form a self-regulated feedback loop upon static stimulation.It is still a...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.22278352);National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2021YFC3001100)。
Fibers with deformation-triggered responses are essential for smart textiles and wearable electronics.Here,smart core-shell elastomer fibers with a conductive core and a liquid crystal elastomer shell showing simultan...
financial support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(NSERC),le Fonds de recherche du Québec:Nature et technologies(FRQNT),and The Centre québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels.
Stimuli-responsive shape-changing materials,particularly hydrogel and liquid crystal elastomer(LCE),have demonstrated significant potential for applications across various fields.Although intricate deformation and act...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.22305033 received by Z.Y.L.,No.52161135102 received by P.Y.W.);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.2232024A-05 received by Z.Y.L.)。
Smart actuators and wearable and implantable devices have attracted much attention in healthcare and environmental sensing.Flexible electronic and ionic materials are the two main approaches used to construct these de...
financially supported by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(No.L233016)。
Polyaniline(PANi)hydrogels have a wide range of applications in artificial skin,flexible robotics,and movement monitoring.Nevertheless,limited by the modulus mismatch between rigid PANi and the soft hydrogel matrix,th...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2023YFB3812500);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52105003);Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation(No.2222058);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.YWF-22-K-101)。
Soft robots have shown great advantages with simple structure,high degree of freedom,continuous deformation,and benign human-machine interaction.In the past decades,a variety of soft robots,including crawling,jumping,...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52273111 and 51873197);the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province of China(No.LR22E030004);the Foundation of Westlake University。
Photonic fibrous soft actuators that can modulate light and produce responsive deformation would have broad technological implications in areas,ranging from smart textiles and intelligent artificial muscles to medical...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52103145 and 11832007);Science&Technology Department of Sichuan Province(No.2025ZNSFSC0352);State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering(No.sklpme-2024-1-03)。
Liquid crystal elastomers(LCEs)exhibit exceptional reversible deformation and unique physical properties owing to their order-disorder phase transition under external stimuli.Among these deformations,helical structure...