Conductive elastic composites have been used widely in soft electronics and soft robotics.
These composites are typically a mixture of conductive fillers within elastomeric substrates …

Anisotropic elastic composites—that is, elastomers containing aligned fillers—often have
enhanced properties in the direction of alignment. Depending on the fillers, these …

Stretchable high‐dielectric‐constant materials are crucial for electronic applications in
emerging domains such as wearable computing and soft robotics. While previous efforts …

Here, we incorporate liquid-metal (LM) microdroplets into hyperelastic materials to create all
soft matter systems with exceptional electro–elasto properties (Figure 1a–c). The integration …

Magnetic shape-memory materials are responsive materials with a strong influence of shape
changes on the magnetic properties, and vice versa.[1] They offer access to unique …

Miniature untethered robots attract growing interest as they have become more functional
and applicable to disruptive biomedical applications recently. Particularly, the soft ones …

Soft composites are critical for soft and flexible materials in energy harvesting, actuators, and
multifunctional devices. One emerging approach to create multifunctional composites is …

Soft polymers embedded with liquid metals like eutectic gallium-indium (EGaIn) exhibit
unique combinations of mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties that are not possible …

Soft dielectric materials typically exhibit poor heat transfer properties due to the dynamics of
phonon transport, which constrain thermal conductivity (k) to decrease monotonically with …

An electrically responsive composite is introduced that exhibits muscle‐like changes in
elastic stiffness (≈ 1–10 MPa) when stimulated with moderate voltages (5–20 V). The …