Photothermally and magnetically controlled reconfiguration of polymer composites for soft robotics

JAC Liu, JH Gillen, SR Mishra, EE Evans, JB Tracy - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
New materials are advancing the field of soft robotics. Composite films of magnetic iron
microparticles dispersed in a shape memory polymer matrix are demonstrated for …

Plasmonic nanostructures for photothermal conversion

J Chen, Z Ye, F Yang, Y Yin - Small Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The nonradiative conversion of light to heat by plasmonic nanostructures, the so‐called
plasmonic photothermal effect, has attracted enormous attention due to their widespread …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Solid-State Multistimuli, Multiresponsive Polymeric Materials

KM Herbert, S Schrettl, SJ Rowan, C Weder - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
The field of stimuli-responsive polymers has grown in the past three decades from a few
obscure examples to one of the most vibrant domains of modern macromolecular science …

Charge‐Transfer Complex Doped Photothermal Hydrogels for Discriminating Circularly Polarized Near‐Infrared Light

Z Wang, A Hao, P **ng - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels behave as potential candidates to investigate circularly polarized light (CP)‐
matter interaction, which however suffer from small sensitivity towards circular polarization …

Self-assembled helical structures of pyrene-conjugated amino acids for near-infrared chiroptical materials and chiral photothermal agents

Z Wang, A Hao, P **ng - Chemistry of Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
Materials with chiroptical activity in the near-infrared (NIR) region are emerging candidates
for photothermal agents responding to circularly polarized light. However, design, synthesis …

Sequential actuation of shape-memory polymers through wavelength-selective photothermal heating of gold nanospheres and nanorods

SR Mishra, JB Tracy - ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2018 - ACS Publications
Photothermal triggering of shape-memory polymers is an appealing noncontact mode of
actuation for responsive materials and soft robotics. Wavelength-selective photothermal …

Contact‐Free Remote Manipulation of Hydrogel Properties Using Light‐Triggerable Nanoparticles: A Materials Science Perspective for Biomedical Applications

CE Choi, A Chakraborty, A Coyle… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Considerable progress has been made in synthesizing “intelligent”, biodegradable
hydrogels that undergo rapid changes in physicochemical properties once exposed to …

High-energy-density shape memory materials with ultrahigh strain for reconfigurable artificial muscles

X Zheng, Y Chen, C Chen, Z Chen, Y Guo… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Programmable and reconfigurable artificial muscles are highly promising and desirable for
applications in various fields, including soft robotics, flexible devices, and biomedical …

Sunlight-induced synthesis of various gold nanoparticles and their heterogeneous catalytic properties on a paper-based substrate

JH Kim, KM Twaddle, J Hu, H Byun - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
This work describes the light-induced preparation of various gold nanoparticles and
demonstrates their possible use as efficient photothermal heating materials and practical …

Physical study of the primary and secondary photothermal events in gold/cellulose nanocrystals (AuNP/CNC) nanocomposites embedded in PVA matrices

Z Hu, Q Meng, R Liu, S Fu, LA Lucia - ACS Sustainable Chemistry …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Inorganic/organic nanocomposites are a class of materials that have garnered a flurry of
research because of their unusually independent tandem or synergistic physical and …