In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such
as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …

In the past decade, mechanical metamaterials have garnered increasing attention owing to
its novel design principles which combine the concept of hierarchical architecture with …

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

Liquid metals, with their unique combination of electrical and mechanical properties, offer
great opportunities for actuation based on surface tension modulation. Thanks to the scaling …

Although negligible at large scales, capillary forces may become dominant for submillimetric
objects. Surface tension is usually associated with the spherical shape of small droplets and …

Although negligible at macroscopic scales, capillary forces become dominant as the sub-
millimetric scales of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) are considered. We review …

Origami-inspired manufacturing can produce complex structures and machines by folding
two-dimensional composites into three-dimensional structures. This fabrication technique is …

In this 2nd edition of Micro-Drops and Digital Microfluidics, Jean Berthier explores the
fundamentals and applications of digital microfluidics, enabling engineers and scientists to …

More than one century ago, Lippmann found that capillary forces can be effectively
controlled by external electrostatic forces. As a simple example, by applying a voltage …

Photo-origami uses the dynamic control of the molecular architecture of a polymer by a
combination of mechanical and non-contact optical stimuli to design and program spatially …