Hydrogel-based conductive materials for smart wearable devices have attracted increasing
attention due to their excellent flexibility, versatility, and outstanding biocompatibility. This …

Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as three-dimensional (3D) printing, has boomed
over the last 30 years, and its use has accelerated during the last 5 years. AM is a materials …

Inspired by creatures, abundant stimulus-responsive hydrogel actuators with diverse
functionalities have been manufactured for applications in soft robotics. However …

In recent decades, origami has been explored to aid in the design of engineering structures.
These structures span multiple scales and have been demonstrated to be used toward …

Amid the ever-advancing landscape of industrial robotics, soft robots in particular have
attracted substantial attention due to their remarkable structural adaptability and high …

Inspired by shape‐morphing organisms in nature, researchers have developed various
hydrogels with stimuli‐responsive swelling, shrinking, bending, folding, origami, rolling …

Photonic actuators, serving as an emerging kind of intelligent stimuli‐responsive material,
can exhibit the abilities to change their structural colors/fluorescence and shapes under …

Nature endows numerous organisms with the ability to realize their basic physiological
activities through stimulus-responsive actuation. Inspired by these interesting biological …

Abstract Development of polymer-based smart materials, which can autonomously alter their
physical and/or chemical properties when exposed to external stimuli, is a thriving research …

Water evaporation is a natural phase change phenomenon occurring any time and
everywhere. Enormous efforts have been made to harvest energy from this ubiquitous …