In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such
as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …

Hydrogen-bonded liquid crystalline polymers have emerged as promising “smart”
supramolecular functional materials with stimuli-responsive, self-healing, and recyclable …

Covalent polymers connected by non-covalent interactions constitute a fascinating set of
materials known as supramolecular polymer networks (SPNs). A key feature of SPNs is that …

Shape memory polymer (SMP) is an excellent smart material, which can sense and perform
active shape change as preprogrammed. So far, there are a wide variety of stimulus …

Supramolecular chemistry combines the strength of molecular assembly via various
molecular interactions. Hydrogen bonding facilitated self-assembly with the advantages of …

Bioprinting is rapidly being adopted as a major method for fabricating tissue engineering
constructs. Through the precise deposition of cell-and bioactive molecule-laden materials …

Research on the design, fabrication, and application of double network (DN) hydrogels,
assembled from pairs of polymers, has grown recently due to their unique structural …

Polymers with self-healing ability have attracted great research efforts recently. A
transparent self-healing polyurethane (PU) based on disulfide bonds is reported in this work …

There are numerous developments taking place in the field of biorobotics, and one such
recent breakthrough is the implementation of soft robots—a pathway to mimic nature's …

Shape memory materials (SMMs), including alloys and polymers, can be programmed into a
temporary configuration and then recover the original shape in which they were processed …