This review comprises a detailed survey of ongoing methodologies for soft actuators,
highlighting approaches suitable for nanometer‐to centimeter‐scale robotic applications …

Vat photopolymerization is a widely adopted additive manufacturing process category owing
to its high accuracy and accessibility. These technologies utilize a light source to cure the …

Light-weighting involves the use of advanced materials and engineering methods to enable
structural elements to deliver the same, or enhanced, technical performance while using …

The serious fire accidents happen frequently every year worldwide, which kill many lives
and result in a significant property loss. The sensitive fire alarm systems (FASs) that can …

Shape memory polymers (SMPs), as a class of programmable stimuli-responsive shape
changing polymers, are attracting increasing attention from the standpoint of both …

Real-time monitoring of strain/stress in polymers is a big challenge to date. Herein, we for
the first time report an ESIPT (excited-state intramolecular proton transfer)-based …

Graphene is an atomically thin, two-dimensional (2D) carbon material that offers a unique
combination of low density, exceptional mechanical properties, thermal stability, large …

In the past decades, Polyurethane (PU) as an emerging polymer material has been widely
used to construct, repair, reinforce, and protect civil engineering infrastructures. Meanwhile …

In the present work polylactide (PLA)/15 wt% hydroxyapatite (HA) porous scaffolds with pre-
modeled structure were obtained by 3D-printing by fused filament fabrication. Composite …

Two-way shape memory polymers (2W-SMPs) are a novel class of shape memory polymers
with the reversible and programmable shape-changing behavior which have gained …