Recent years have seen major advances in the developments of both additive
manufacturing concepts and responsive materials. When combined as 4D printing, the …

Biological systems include several well-known patterns with different forms and dimensions
(nano to macro) such as cracks, whiskers, hierarchical, interlocked, porous, and bristle-like …

Mobile organisms with ability for locomotion and transportation, such as humans and other
animals, utilize orchestrated actuation to perform actions. Mimicking these functionalities in …

In recent years, light‐responsive liquid crystal (LC) polymers have been studied as
promising materials for the fabrication of untethered soft actuators. The underwater behavior …

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Responding to external stimuli is a trait observed in all living organisms. Modern artificial
materials have adopted this profound characteristic, thereby commencing the field of stimuli …

Externally induced color‐and shape‐changes in micrometer‐sized objects are of great
interest in novel application fields such as optofluidics and microrobotics. In this work, light …

Natural biological systems are constantly develo** efficient mechanisms to counter
adverse effects of increasing human population and depleting energy resources. Their …

Commodity polymers are produced in large volumes, providing robust mechanical
properties at relatively low costs. The products made from these commodity polymers …

Light-induced oscillatory behavior of liquid crystal polymer network (LCN) films has been
demonstrated by several researchers in the past decade. Similarly, oscillations in LCN films …