Transformer hydrogels: a review

O Erol, A Pantula, W Liu… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels, which are hydrophilic soft porous networks, are an important class of materials of
broad relevance to bioanalytical chemistry, soft‐robotics, drug delivery, and regenerative …

Bioinspired structures for soft actuators

S Wei, TK Ghosh - Advanced Materials Technologies, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biological organisms present marvelous morphing behaviors from the quiescent blooming of
flowers to the energetic wing‐flap** of birds that have always inspired humans to design …

Magneto-induced Janus adhesive-tough hydrogels for wearable human motion sensing and enhanced low-grade heat harvesting

Y Xu, K Sun, L Huang, Y Dai, X Zhang… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Janus hydrogels with different properties on the two surfaces have considerable potential in
the field of material engineering applications. Various Janus hydrogels have been …

Exploring stimuli-responsive elastin-like polypeptide for biomedicine and beyond: potential application as programmable soft actuators

Y Noh, E Son, C Cha - Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
With the emergence of soft robotics, there is a growing need to develop actuator systems
that are lightweight, mechanically compliant, stimuli-responsive, and readily programmable …

Monolithic polymer nanoridges with programmable wetting transitions

WK Lee, WB Jung, D Rhee, J Hu, YAL Lee… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes polymeric nanostructures with dynamically tunable wetting properties.
Centimeter‐scale areas of monolithic nanoridges can be generated by strain relief of …

Fabrication of Self‐Wrinkling Polymer Films with Tunable Patterns through an Interfacial‐Fuming‐Induced Surface Instability Process

YC Chen, YW Luo, CY Huang, YL Li, TL Chen, TY Xu… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by the superglue fuming method for fingerprint collection, this study developed a
novel interfacial‐fuming‐induced surface instability process to generate wrinkled patterns on …

Smart polymer surfaces with complex wrinkled patterns: Reversible, non-planar, gradient, and hierarchical structures

MA Sarabia-Vallejos, FE Cerda-Iglesias… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
This review summarizes the relevant developments in preparing wrinkled structures with
variable characteristics. These include the formation of smart interfaces with reversible …

[HTML][HTML] Wrinkling prediction, formation and evolution in thin films adhering on polymeric substrata

A Cutolo, V Pagliarulo, F Merola, S Coppola, P Ferraro… - Materials & Design, 2020 - Elsevier
Wrinkling has recently attracted an increasing interest by suggesting a number of
unforeseeable applications in many emerging material science and engineering fields. If …

Pattern formation, structure and functionalities of wrinkled liquid crystal surfaces: A soft matter biomimicry platform

Z Wang, P Servio, AD Rey - Frontiers in Soft Matter, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This review presents an integrated theoretical and computational characterization and
analysis of surface pattern formation in chiral and achiral liquid crystal self-assembly and the …

Morphological Diagram of Dynamic-Interfacial-Release-Induced Surface Instability

YF Lai, MY Chang, YY Liou, CC Lee… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this study, a morphological diagram was constructed for quantitatively predicting various
modes of surface instabilities caused by the dynamic interfacial release of strain in initially …