[HTML][HTML] 4D bioprinting of smart polymers for biomedical applications: Recent progress, challenges, and future perspectives

ZU Arif, MY Khalid, A Zolfagharian… - Reactive and Functional …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract 4D bioprinting is the next-generation additive manufacturing-based fabrication
platform employed to construct intricate, adaptive, and dynamic soft and hard tissue …

3D and 4D printing of polymers for tissue engineering applications

DG Tamay, T Dursun Usal, AS Alagoz… - … in bioengineering and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Three-dimensional (3D) and Four-dimensional (4D) printing emerged as the next generation
of fabrication techniques, spanning across various research areas, such as engineering …

Self-healing polymeric soft actuators

S Bonardd, M Nandi, JI Hernandez Garcia… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Natural evolution has provided multicellular organisms with sophisticated functionalities and
repair mechanisms for surviving and preserve their functions after an injury and/or infection …

[HTML][HTML] Applications and multidisciplinary perspective on 3D printing techniques: Recent developments and future trends

AA Elhadad, A Rosa-Sainz, R Canete, E Peralta… - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In industries as diverse as automotive, aerospace, medical, energy, construction,
electronics, and food, the engineering technology known as 3D printing or additive …

Ionic liquid‐based stimuli‐responsive functional materials

J Cui, Y Li, D Chen, TG Zhan… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ionic liquids (ILs) have many attractive properties. For example, their physical and chemical
properties can be tuned by a judicious design of the cations and anions, making them ideal …

Polymeric actuators

L Ionov - Langmuir, 2015 - ACS Publications
Actuators are materials and devices that are able to change their shape in response to
changes in environmental conditions and perform mechanical work on nano-, micro-, and …

Rapid moisture-responsive silk fibroin actuators

G Manikandan, A Murali, R Kumar… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report the unique actuation characteristics of moisture-driven, fully reversible soft
biopolymer films fabricated from Bombyx mori silk. The instantaneous actuation is driven by …

Polymer-based actuators: back to the future

P Martins, DM Correia, V Correia… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymer-based actuators play a key role in the area of smart materials and devices, and for
this reason different polymer-based actuators have appeared in recent years and are …

Programmable electrofabrication of porous Janus films with tunable Janus balance for anisotropic cell guidance and tissue regeneration

M Lei, X Qu, H Liu, Y Liu, S Wang, S Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Janus films with controlled pore structures can be particularly important in diverse
applications. There remains a challenge for simple, rapid, and scalable fabrication methods …

Thermal stable polymer-based solid electrolytes: Design strategies and corresponding stable mechanisms for solid-state Li metal batteries

M Chen, Z Yue, Y Wu, Y Wang, Y Li, Z Chen - Sustainable Materials and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Compared to extensively used lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) with flammable carbonate-based
organic liquid-electrolytes, lithium metal batteries (LMBs) with the combinations of solid-state …