Cellulose-based ionic conductor: An emerging material toward sustainable devices

Y Ye, L Yu, E Lizundia, Y Zhu, C Chen… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ionic conductors (ICs) find widespread applications across different fields, such as smart
electronic, ionotronic, sensor, biomedical, and energy harvesting/storage devices, and …

Bioinspired design toward nanocellulose-based materials

X Zhao, S Bhagia, D Gomez-Maldonado, X Tang… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Nature provides lots of inspiration for material and structural design for various applications.
Deriving design principles from the investigation of nature can provide a rich source of …

Programmable Mechanically Active Hydrogel‐Based Materials

Y Dong, AN Ramey‐Ward, K Salaita - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Programmable mechanically active materials (MAMs) are defined as materials that can
sense and transduce external stimuli into mechanical outputs or conversely that can detect …

A Review of Recent Advances in Electrically Driven Polymer‐Based Flexible Actuators: Smart Materials, Structures, and Their Applications

J Ahn, J Gu, J Choi, C Han, Y Jeong… - Advanced Materials …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer‐based flexible actuators have recently attracted significant attention owing to their
great potentials in soft robotics, wearables, haptics, and medical devices. In particular …

Electroconductive nanobiomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

E Mostafavi, D Medina-Cruz, K Kalantari, A Taymoori… - Bioelectricity, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Regenerative medicine aims to engineer tissue constructs that can recapitulate the
functional and structural properties of native organs. Most novel regenerative therapies are …

Plant‐like tropisms in artificial muscles

S Aziz, X Zhang, S Naficy, B Salahuddin… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Helical plants have the ability of tropisms to respond to natural stimuli, and biomimicry of
such helical shapes into artificial muscles has been vastly popular. However, the shape …

Solvent-exchange triggered hydrogen bond activation strategy toward self-adaptive strong and tough organohydrogel artificial muscle

XJ Zha, B Zhang, ZC Cheng, S Zhang, JH Pu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrogel actuators have aroused tremendous interests in various fields such as artificial
muscles, biomedicine and wearable devices. However, hydrogel actuators face persistent …

Flexible stimuli-responsive materials for smart personal protective equipment

L Zhang, J Li, F Wang, J Shi, W Chen, X Tao - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Flexible stimuli-responsive materials are deformable, stretchable, light-weight, and desirable
for smart personal protective equipment (PPE), and as the primarily functional components …

Carbon‐Based Nanomaterials Electrodes of Ionic Soft Actuators: From Initial 1D Structure to 3D Composite Structure for Flexible Intelligent Devices

B Wang, P Huang, B Li, Z Wu, Y **ng, J Zhu, L Liu - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the rapid development of autonomous and intelligent devices driven by soft actuators,
ion soft actuators in flexible intelligent devices have several advantages over other …

Ecofriendly electroactive AMPS-mediated functional carboxylated cellulose nanocrystals for high-performance ionic artificial muscles

F Wang, S Zheng, W Ye - Applied Physics A, 2023 - Springer
Ecofriendly high-performance ionic artificial muscles have received great interest in
wearable electronics, active medical devices, flexible sensors, biomimetic robots, and smart …