Strategies and perspectives to catch the missing pieces in energy‐efficient hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline media

S Anantharaj, S Noda, VR Jothi, SC Yi… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Transition metal hydroxides (M‐OH) and their heterostructures (X| M‐OH, where X can be a
metal, metal oxide, metal chalcogenide, metal phosphide, etc.) have recently emerged as …

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 …

Mechanical intelligent energy harvesting: from methodology to applications

LC Zhao, HX Zou, KX Wei, SX Zhou… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) connects everything with intelligence,
while the increase in energy consumption generated by numerous electronic devices puts …

Nature-inspired structural materials for flexible electronic devices

Y Liu, K He, G Chen, WR Leow, X Chen - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Exciting advancements have been made in the field of flexible electronic devices in the last
two decades and will certainly lead to a revolution in peoples' lives in the future. However …

Self-regulated non-reciprocal motions in single-material microstructures

S Li, MM Lerch, JT Waters, B Deng, RS Martens, Y Yao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Living cilia stir, sweep and steer via swirling strokes of complex bending and twisting, paired
with distinct reverse arcs,. Efforts to mimic such dynamics synthetically rely on multimaterial …

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 …

Printing, folding and assembly methods for forming 3D mesostructures in advanced materials

Y Zhang, F Zhang, Z Yan, Q Ma, X Li, Y Huang… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
A rapidly expanding area of research in materials science involves the development of
routes to complex 3D structures with feature sizes in the mesoscopic range (that is, between …

Mechanical metamaterials based on origami and kirigami

Z Zhai, L Wu, H Jiang - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Once merely ancient arts, origami (ie, paper folding) and kirigami (ie, paper cutting) have in
recent years also become popular for building mechanical metamaterials and now provide …

Recent progress in active mechanical metamaterials and construction principles

J Qi, Z Chen, P Jiang, W Hu, Y Wang, Z Zhao… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Active mechanical metamaterials (AMMs)(or smart mechanical metamaterials) that combine
the configurations of mechanical metamaterials and the active control of stimuli‐responsive …

Three-dimensional piezoelectric polymer microsystems for vibrational energy harvesting, robotic interfaces and biomedical implants

M Han, H Wang, Y Yang, C Liang, W Bai, Z Yan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Piezoelectric microsystems are of use in areas such as mechanical sensing, energy
conversion and robotics. The systems typically have a planar structure, but transforming …