Rationally designed architected materials have attained previously untapped territories in
materials property space. The properties and behaviours of architected materials need not …

The area of artificial muscle is a highly interdisciplinary field of research that has evolved
rapidly in the last 30 years. Recent advances in nanomaterial fabrication and …

Responsive polymer-based materials are capable of altering their chemical and/or physical
properties upon exposure to external stimuli. These materials have been intensively studied …

Conducting polymers (CPs), thanks to their unique properties, structures made on-demand,
new composite mixtures, and possibility of deposit on a surface by chemical, physical, or …

The increasingly intimate bond connecting soft actuation devices and emerging biomedical
applications is triggering the development of novel materials with superb biocompatibility …

Soft actuators, pivotal for converting external energy into mechanical motion, have become
increasingly vital in a wide range of applications, from the subtle engineering of soft robotics …

Search for energy storage devices towards sustainability, compatibility and versatility
demands flexible supercapacitors capable of sensing their surrounding conditions. Here …

Films of conducting polymers in the presence of electrolytes can be oxidized or reduced by
the flow of anodic or cathodic currents. Ions and solvent are exchanged during a reaction for …

Conducting polymers (CPs) have attracted significant attention in a variety of research fields,
particularly in biomedical engineering, because of the ease in controlling their morphology …

Electro-generations of conducting polymers are fast processes through a complex
mechanism of parallel reactions giving mixed materials. The films are three-dimensional …