Soft robotics inspired by the movement of living organisms, with excellent adaptability and
accuracy for accomplishing tasks, are highly desirable for efficient operations and safe …

The Diels–Alder (DA) reaction is regarded as quite a useful strategy in organic and
macromolecular syntheses. The reversibility of this reaction and the advent of self-repair …

Leveraging liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) to realize scalable fabrication of high‐
performing fibrous artificial muscles is of particular interest because these active soft …

Degradable polymers are used widely in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Maturing capabilities in additive manufacturing coupled with advances in orthogonal …

Together with the evolution of digital health care, the wearable electronics field has evolved
rapidly during the past few years and is expected to be expanded even further within the first …

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 …

Abstract 3D printing will revolutionize the manufacturing industry. Significant advances in
computer aided design, additive manufacturing and materials science have opened up the …

Smart materials, also known as intelligent materials, which are responsive to the external
stimuli including heat, moisture, stress, pH, and magnetic fields, have found extensive …

Stimuli-responsive materials have been used in major applications such as sensors,
actuators, wearable devices, and biomedical devices owing to their ability to respond to …

Pultrusion is one of the most efficient methods of producing polymer composite structures
with a constant cross-section. Pultruded profiles are widely used in bridge construction …