Mechanically-guided 3D assembly for architected flexible electronics

R Bo, S Xu, Y Yang, Y Zhang - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Architected flexible electronic devices with rationally designed 3D geometries have found
essential applications in biology, medicine, therapeutics, sensing/imaging, energy, robotics …

Active materials for functional origami

S Leanza, S Wu, X Sun, HJ Qi, RR Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Electrothermally controlled origami fabricated by 4D printing of continuous fiber-reinforced composites

Y Wang, H Ye, J He, Q Ge, Y **ong - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Active origami capable of precise deployment control, enabling on-demand modulation of its
properties, is highly desirable in multi-scenario and multi-task applications. While 4D …

Reconfigurable 4D printing via mechanically robust covalent adaptable network shape memory polymer

H Li, B Zhang, H Ye, B Jian, X He, J Cheng, Z Sun… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
4D printing enables 3D printed structures to change shape over “time” in response to
environmental stimulus. Because of relatively high modulus, shape memory polymers …

Deployable mechanical metamaterials with multistep programmable transformation

Z Meng, M Liu, H Yan, GM Genin, CQ Chen - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Transformations in shape are critical to actuation in engineered metamaterials. Existing
engineering metamaterials are typically limited to a small number of shape transformations …

Magnetic shape memory polymers with integrated multifunctional shape manipulation

Q Ze, X Kuang, S Wu, J Wong… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Shape‐programmable soft materials that exhibit integrated multifunctional shape
manipulations, including reprogrammable, untethered, fast, and reversible shape …

Active mechanical haptics with high-fidelity perceptions for immersive virtual reality

Z Zhang, Z Xu, L Emu, P Wei, S Chen, Z Zhai… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Human-centred mechanical sensory perceptions enable us to immerse ourselves in the
physical environment by actively touching or holding objects so that we may feel their …

Reconfigurable origami-inspired multistable metamorphous structures

C Wang, H Guo, R Liu, Z Deng, Y Chen, Z You - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Origami-inspired metamorphous structures can adjust their shapes and mechanical
behaviors according to operational requirements. However, they are typically composed of …

Progress, challenges, and prospects of soft robotics for space applications

Y Zhang, P Li, J Quan, L Li, G Zhang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The development of space robots is vital to broadening human cognitive boundaries. Space
robots have been deployed in space science experiments, extravehicular operations, and …

[HTML][HTML] Physical intelligence as a new paradigm

M Sitti - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Intelligence of physical agents, such as human-made (eg, robots, autonomous cars) and
biological (eg, animals, plants) ones, is not only enabled by their computational intelligence …