Most tissues of the human body are characterized by highly anisotropic physical properties
and biological organization. Hydrogels have been proposed as scaffolding materials to …

Owing to their water‐rich structures, which are similar to those of biological tissues,
hydrogels have long been regarded as promising scaffolds for artificial tissues and organs …

Spatiotemporally coordinated transformations in epithelial curvature are necessary to
generate crypt-villus structures during intestinal development. However, the temporal …

Soft untethered micromachines with overall sizes less than 100 μm enable diverse
programmed shape transformations and functions for future biomedical and organ-on-a-chip …

Artificial muscles are promising as an intelligent material that can replace conventional
power systems to reproduce the motion of a living organism. Among various building …

Hydrogels are composed of 3D hydrophilic networks with an abundance of water; they are
analogous to biological soft tissues. Their unique physico-chemical properties endow …

We consider the rotational motion of an elongated nanoscale object in a fluid under an
external torque. The experimentally observed dynamics could be understood from analytical …

Magnetic hybrid materials in the form of magnetic gels and elastomers, that is, magnetic or
magnetizable colloidal particles embedded in an elastic polymer matrix, are fascinating …

Multilayered [FeNi (100 nm)/Cu (3 nm)] 5/Cu (500 nm)/[Cu (3 nm)/[FeNi (100 nm)] 5
structures were used as sensitive elements of the magnetoimpedance (MI) sensor prototype …

The review addresses nanomechanics and nanorheology of stimuli responsive microgels
adsorbed at an interface. In order to measure the mechanical properties on a local scale, an …