Fabricating biomimetic materials with ice‐templating for biomedical applications

X Lin, L Fan, L Wang, AM Filppula, Y Yu… - Smart …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The proper organization of cells and tissues is essential for their functionalization in living
organisms. To create materials that mimic natural structures, researchers have developed …

Photocontrollable Elongation Actuation of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Films with Well‐Defined Crease Structures

Y Huang, Y Xu, HK Bisoyi, Z Liu, J Wang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) have demonstrated various applications in
artificial muscles and soft robotics, their inherent flexibility and orientation‐dependent forces …

Thin‐film‐shaped flexible actuators

W Pang, S Xu, L Liu, R Bo… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Human‐like and creature‐like systems are one of the most representative imaginary
blueprints of future robots. To fulfill this blueprint, the development of high‐performance …

A magnetic-driven multi-motion robot with position/orientation sensing capability

L Zhang, S Zhao, X Zhou, X **g, Y Zhou, Y Wang… - Research, 2023 - spj.science.org
Miniature magnetic-driven robots with multimode motions and high-precision pose sensing
capacity (position and orientation) are greatly demanded in in situ manipulation in narrow …

Polyelectrolyte‐Mediated Modulation of Spatial Internal Stresses of Hydrogels for Complex 3D Actuators

J Duan, W Fan, Z Xu, L Cui, Z Wang, Z Nie… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogel actuators with complex 3D initial shapes show numerous important applications,
but it remains challenging to fabricate such actuators. This article describes a polyelectrolyte …

Electro‐Driven, Predefined Carbon Nanotube‐Based Phase Change Composite as a Lifting‐Jack

Q Wang, L Han, Z Ye, K Chen, Z **a… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Shape change materials or actuators that are capable of shrinking, bending or rotation
under external stimuli (especially, by electricity), have attracted tremendous research …

A 4D‐Printing Inverse Design Strategy for Micromachines with Customized Shape‐Morphing

J Wang, Y Zhang, J Zheng, X Zhao, H Guo, Y Qiu… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
An active heterostructure with smart‐response material used as “muscle” and inactive
material as “skeleton” can deform over time to respond to external stimuli. 4D printing …

Coaxial 4D Printing of Vein‐Inspired Thermoresponsive Channel Hydrogel Actuators

D Podstawczyk, M Nizioł, P Śledzik… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Although significant progress has been made in coaxial printing of vascularized tissue
models, this technique has not yet been used to fabricate stimulus‐responsive scaffolds …

Photo-steered rapid and multimodal locomotion of 3D-printed tough hydrogel robots

M Dong, W Liu, CF Dai, D Jiao, QL Zhu, W Hong… - Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogels are an ideal material to develop soft robots. However, it remains a grand
challenge to develop miniaturized hydrogel robots with mechanical robustness, rapid …

Design and kinematic analysis of a rope-driven linkage frog-like swimming robot with multidirectional controllable motion

Y Pan, J Fan, G Liu, Y Liu, J Zhao - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, a rope-driven linkage frog swimming robot is constructed in accordance with
the delicate structure of the frog swimming mode. First, a rope-driven linkage limb propulsion …