In conventional classification, soft robots feature mechanical compliance as the main
distinguishing factor from traditional robots made of rigid materials. Recent advances in …

Architected flexible electronic devices with rationally designed 3D geometries have found
essential applications in biology, medicine, therapeutics, sensing/imaging, energy, robotics …

Rationally designed architected materials have attained previously untapped territories in
materials property space. The properties and behaviours of architected materials need not …

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 …

The rise of flexible and stretchable electronics has revolutionized biosensor techniques for
probing biological systems. Particularly, flexible and stretchable electrochemical sensors …

Elastic properties of classical bulk materials can hardly be changed or adjusted in operando,
while such tunable elasticity is highly desired for robots and smart machinery. Although …

Wireless millimeter-scale origami robots have recently been explored with great potential for
biomedical applications. Existing millimeter-scale origami devices usually require separate …

Stretchable electronics, which can retain their functions under stretching, have attracted
great interest in recent decades. Elastic substrates, which bear the applied strain and …

Carbon materials, with their diverse allotropes, have played significant roles in our daily life
and the development of material science. Following 0D C60 and 1D carbon nanotube, 2D …

Transformations in shape are critical to actuation in engineered metamaterials. Existing
engineering metamaterials are typically limited to a small number of shape transformations …