3D-printed PEDOT: PSS for soft robotics

J Li, J Cao, B Lu, G Gu - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Soft robotics is an emerging technology requiring conductive materials with inherently high
compliance to sense, control or actuate. Poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene): polystyrene …

Organogels versus hydrogels: advantages, challenges, and applications

MA Kuzina, DD Kartsev… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Organogels are an important class of gels, and are comparable to hydrogels owing to their
properties as liquid‐infused soft materials. Despite the extensive choice of liquid media and …

Recent advances in 4D printing of liquid crystal elastomers

M Chen, M Gao, L Bai, H Zheng, HJ Qi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are renowned for their large, reversible, and anisotropic
shape change in response to various external stimuli due to their lightly cross‐linked …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives on recent advancements in energy harvesting, sensing and bio-medical applications of piezoelectric gels

T Vijayakanth, S Shankar, G Finkelstein-Zuta… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of next-generation bioelectronics, as well as the powering of consumer
and medical devices, require power sources that are soft, flexible, extensible, and even …

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 …

Smart organic materials based on macrocycle hosts

XY Lou, S Zhang, Y Wang, YW Yang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Innovative design of smart organic materials is of great importance for the advancement of
modern technology. Macrocycle hosts, possessing cyclic skeletons, intrinsic cavities, and …

4D printing of reprogrammable liquid crystal elastomers with synergistic photochromism and photoactuation

M Chen, Y Hou, R An, HJ Qi, K Zhou - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 4D printing of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) via direct ink writing has opened up
great opportunities to create stimuli‐responsive actuations for applications such as soft …

Design, characterization and applications of nanocolloidal hydrogels

SM Morozova, A Gevorkian… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanocolloidal gels (NCGs) are an emerging class of soft matter, in which nanoparticles act
as building blocks of the colloidal network. Chemical or physical crosslinking enables NCG …

Porous conductive textiles for wearable electronics

Y Ding, J Jiang, Y Wu, Y Zhang, J Zhou… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Over the years, researchers have made significant strides in the development of novel
flexible/stretchable and conductive materials, enabling the creation of cutting-edge …

Stimuli‐responsive photonic actuators for integrated biomimetic and intelligent systems

J Gao, Y Tang, D Martella, J Guo… - Responsive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photonic actuators, serving as an emerging kind of intelligent stimuli‐responsive material,
can exhibit the abilities to change their structural colors/fluorescence and shapes under …