Recent advances in conductive hydrogels: classifications, properties, and applications

T Zhu, Y Ni, GM Biesold, Y Cheng, M Ge, H Li… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogel-based conductive materials for smart wearable devices have attracted increasing
attention due to their excellent flexibility, versatility, and outstanding biocompatibility. This …

Untethered small-scale machines for microrobotic manipulation: From individual and multiple to collective machines

Q Wang, J Zhang, J Yu, J Lang, Z Lyu, Y Chen… - Acs Nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Untethered small-scale machines (USSMs) that can actively adjust their motion,
deformation, and collective states in response to external stimuli have gained enormous …

Untethered small-scale magnetic soft robot with programmable magnetization and integrated multifunctional modules

Y Dong, L Wang, N **a, Z Yang, C Zhang, C Pan… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Intelligent magnetic soft robots capable of programmable structural changes and
multifunctionality modalities depend on material architectures and methods for controlling …

Hydrogel muscles powering reconfigurable micro-metastructures with wide-spectrum programmability

M Zhang, A Pal, Z Zheng, G Gardi, E Yildiz, M Sitti - Nature materials, 2023 - nature.com
Stimuli-responsive geometric transformations endow metamaterials with dynamic properties
and functionalities. However, using existing transformation mechanisms to program a single …

Multimodal locomotion and cargo transportation of magnetically actuated quadruped soft microrobots

C Huang, Z Lai, X Wu, T Xu - Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2022 - spj.science.org
Untethered microrobots have attracted extensive attention due to their potential for
biomedical applications and micromanipulation at the small scale. Soft microrobots are of …

Programmable aniso-electrodeposited modular hydrogel microrobots

Z Zheng, H Wang, SO Demir, Q Huang, T Fukuda… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Systems with programmable and complex shape morphing are highly desired in many fields
wherein sensing, actuation, and manipulation must be performed. Living organisms use …

Environmentally adaptive shape-morphing microrobots for localized cancer cell treatment

C **n, D **, Y Hu, L Yang, R Li, L Wang, Z Ren… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microrobots have attracted considerable attention due to their extensive applications in
microobject manipulation and targeted drug delivery. To realize more complex micro …

Stimuli-responsive functional micro-/nanorobots: a review

Y Zhou, M Ye, C Hu, H Qian, BJ Nelson, X Wang - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Stimuli-responsive functional micro-/nanorobots (srFM/Ns) are a class of intelligent, efficient,
and promising microrobots that can react to external stimuli (such as temperature, light …

3D printing of hydrogels for stretchable ionotronic devices

G Ge, Q Wang, YZ Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the booming development of flexible electronics represented by electronic skins, soft
robots, and human–machine interfaces, 3D printing of hydrogels, an approach used by the …

Real-time ultrasound doppler tracking and autonomous navigation of a miniature helical robot for accelerating thrombolysis in dynamic blood flow

Q Wang, X Du, D **, L Zhang - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Untethered small-scale robots offer great promise for medical applications in complex
biological environments. However, challenges remain in the control and medical imaging of …