Bioinspired hydrogel actuator for soft robotics: Opportunity and challenges

Y Chen, Y Zhang, H Li, J Shen, F Zhang, J He, J Lin… - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural organisms offer abundant inspiration for designing and fabricating hydrogel robots
with autonomous and intelligent behaviors, including motion, perception, and response to …

Control and autonomy of microrobots: Recent progress and perspective

J Jiang, Z Yang, A Ferreira… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
After decades of development, microrobots have exhibited great application potential in the
biomedical field, such as minimally invasive surgery, drug delivery, and bio‐sensing …

Liquid metal–based soft microfluidics

L Zhu, B Wang, S Handschuh‐Wang, X Zhou - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Motivated by the increasing demand of wearable and soft electronics, liquid metal (LM)‐
based microfluidics has been subjected to tremendous development in the past decade …

Droplet bouncing: Fundamentals, regulations, and applications

X Han, J Li, X Tang, W Li, H Zhao, L Yang, L Wang - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet impact is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature, daily life, and industrial processes. It
is thus crucial to tune the impact outcomes for various applications. As a special outcome of …

Small‐scale robotics with tailored wettability

B Wang, S Handschuh‐Wang, J Shen… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Small‐scale robots (SSRs) have emerged as promising and versatile tools in various
biomedical, sensing, decontamination, and manipulation applications, as they are uniquely …

Liquid metal droplets enabled soft robots

L Zheng, S Handschuh‐Wang, Z Ye, B Wang - Applied Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Soft robots have attracted significant interest due to their suitability for applications in a
variety of engineering and biomedical applications. Particularly, fluid-based soft robots, such …

Reconfigurable liquid‐bodied miniature machines: magnetic control and microrobotic applications

Q Wang, N **ang, J Lang, B Wang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soft miniature machines demonstrate multimodal actuation and morphology change
capabilities in narrow spaces smaller than their dimension. The wirelessly controlled soft …

Liquid marbles: review of recent progress in physical properties, formation techniques, and lab-in-a-marble applications in microreactors and biosensors

M Tenjimbayashi, T Mouterde, PK Roy, K Uto - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid marbles (LMs) are nonsticking droplets whose surfaces are covered with low-
wettability particles. Owing to their high mobility, shape reconfigurability, and widely …

Miniature robots for battling bacterial infection

W Zhong, S Handschuh-Wang, UT Uthappa, J Shen… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Micro/nanorobots have shown great promise for minimally invasive bacterial infection
therapy. However, bacterial infections usually form biofilms inside the body by aggregation …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid marbles as miniature reactors for chemical and biological applications

NK Nguyen, CH Ooi, P Singha, J **, KR Sreejith… - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
The need for miniaturised reaction systems has led to the development of various
microreactor platforms, such as droplet-based microreactors. However, these microreactors …