Polymer-based responsive structural color materials

H Wang, H Zhang, Z Chen, Y Zhao, Z Gu… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polymer-based responsive structural color materials are polymers with ordered
microstructures that can change colors. They offer unique advantages and present a novel …

Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)-based smart hydrogels: Design, properties and applications

L Tang, L Wang, X Yang, Y Feng, Y Li… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of polymer-based smart materials, which can autonomously alter their
physical and/or chemical properties when exposed to external stimuli, is a thriving research …

High-throughput printing of customized structural-color graphics with circularly polarized reflection and mechanochromic response

Y Yang, X Zhang, C Valenzuela, R Bi, Y Chen, Y Liu… - Matter, 2024 - cell.com
Arbitrary patterning of chiral structural-color materials on various substrates in a robust,
scalable, and customized way is of paramount importance for smart camouflage, wearable …

Injectable stretchable self-healing dual dynamic network hydrogel as adhesive anti-oxidant wound dressing for photothermal clearance of bacteria and promoting …

M Li, Y Liang, Y Liang, G Pan, B Guo - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the frequent movement and stretching of skin, traditional wound dressings are difficult
to adapt to motion wounds on the stretchable parts of the body surface (eg elbow, hip and …

Recent advances in photonic crystal-based sensors

T Li, G Liu, H Kong, G Yang, G Wei, X Zhou - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Photonic crystal (PC) is an emerging optical microstructure material with adjustable
dielectric constant, which can vary with its space periodically. It has exhibited excellent …

Bioinspired MXene-based soft actuators exhibiting angle-independent structural color

P Xue, Y Chen, Y Xu, C Valenzuela, X Zhang… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
In nature, many living organisms exhibiting unique structural coloration and soft-bodied
actuation have inspired scientists to develop advanced structural colored soft actuators …

Multistimuli-responsive actuators derived from natural materials for entirely biodegradable and programmable untethered soft robots

Z Chen, B Gao, P Li, X Zhao, Q Yan, Z Liu, L Xu… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Untethered soft robots have attracted growing attention due to their safe interaction with
living organisms, good flexibility, and accurate remote control. However, the materials …

Computational microstructure characterization and reconstruction: Review of the state-of-the-art techniques

R Bostanabad, Y Zhang, X Li, T Kearney… - Progress in Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Building sensible processing-structure-property (PSP) links to gain fundamental insights and
understanding of materials behavior has been the focus of many works in computational …

Patterned colloidal photonic crystals

J Hou, M Li, Y Song - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Colloidal photonic crystals (PCs) have been well developed because they are easy to
prepare, cost‐effective, and versatile with regards to modification and functionalization …

Efficient recovery of highly viscous crude oil spill by superhydrophobic ocean biomass-based aerogel assisted with solar energy

Y Guan, D Qiao, L Dong, X Chen, Z Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The crude oil spills is one of the crucial ocean environmental disaster. The low fluidity of
high-viscosity crude oil poses significant challenges for its penetration into conventional …