Liquid metal combinatorics toward materials discovery

D Wang, J Ye, Y Bai, F Yang, J Zhang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid metals and their derivatives provide several opportunities for fundamental and
practical exploration worldwide. However, the increasing number of studies and shortage of …

Controllable flow and manipulation of liquid metals

Y He, J You, MD Dickey, X Wang - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This review summarizes the controllable flow and manipulation of gallium‐based liquid
metals (eg, eutectic gallium indium, EGaIn). There are generally only a few ways to handle …

Coaxially printed magnetic mechanical electrical hybrid structures with actuation and sensing functionalities

Y Zhang, C Pan, P Liu, L Peng, Z Liu, Y Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Soft electromagnetic devices have great potential in soft robotics and biomedical
applications. However, existing soft-magneto-electrical devices would have limited hybrid …

Wrap-like transfer printing for three-dimensional curvy electronics

X Chen, W Jian, Z Wang, J Ai, Y Kang, P Sun… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Three-dimensional (3D) curvy electronics has wide-ranging application in biomedical health
care, soft machine, and high-density curved imager. Limited by material properties, complex …

Biodegradable electrohydraulic actuators for sustainable soft robots

EH Rumley, D Preninger, A Shagan Shomron… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Combating environmental pollution demands a focus on sustainability, in particular from
rapidly advancing technologies that are poised to be ubiquitous in modern societies. Among …

Direct electromagnetic information processing with planar diffractive neural network

Z Gu, Q Ma, X Gao, JW You, TJ Cui - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Diffractive neural network in electromagnetic wave–driven system has attracted great
attention due to its ultrahigh parallel computing capability and energy efficiency. However …

4D printing roadmap

M Bodaghi, L Wang, F Zhang, Y Liu… - Smart materials and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Four-dimensional (4D) printing is an advanced manufacturing technology that has
rapidly emerged as a transformative tool with the capacity to reshape various research …

Performance metrics for shape-morphing devices

J Wang, A Chortos - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Shape-morphing devices, with their capacity to undergo structural transformations, are on
the verge of revolutionizing multiple domains, from human–machine interfaces to biomedical …

Liquid metal functionalization innovations in wearables and soft robotics for smart healthcare applications

S Chen, S Fan, H Chan, Z Qiao, J Qi… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Smart healthcare solutions are crucial for early diagnosis, real‐time health monitoring, and
personalized therapy. Essential to these advancements are flexible wearable devices and …

Interlinking spatial dimensions and kinetic processes in dissipative materials to create synthetic systems with lifelike functionality

OE Shklyaev, AC Balazs - Nature Nanotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Biological systems spontaneously convert energy input into the actions necessary to survive.
Motivated by the efficacy of these processes, researchers aim to forge materials systems that …