Active mechanical metamaterials (AMMs)(or smart mechanical metamaterials) that combine
the configurations of mechanical metamaterials and the active control of stimuli‐responsive …

Precise control over molecular movement is of fundamental and practical importance in
physics, biology, and chemistry. At nanoscale, the peculiar functioning principles and the …

Hydrogels are the most relevant biochemical scaffold due to their tunable properties,
inherent biocompatibility, and similarity with tissue and cell environments. Over the past …

The field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine has been evolving at a rapid pace
with numerous novel and interesting biomaterials being reported. Hydrogels have come a …

Organisms in nature have evolved unique structural colors and stimuli‐responsive functions
for camouflage, warning, and communication over millions of years, which are essential to …

Light is a nearly ideal stimulus for molecular systems. It delivers information encoded in the
form of wavelengths and their intensities with high precision in space and time. Light is a …

Light-responsive, spiropyran-functionalized hydrogels have been used to create reversibly
photoactuated structures for applications ranging from microfluidics to nonlinear optics …

Shape‐changing polymers are an emerging class of smart stimuli‐responsive materials.
Among the different stimuli that could be used for polymer actuation, light has several …

With the development of the bionics and artificial intelligence, materials that can detect and
respond to complex environments will be required. Gels are considered a potential material …

Microfluidics is a very useful and promising technology that allowed engineering a huge
variety of developments in several fields, such as biology, biomedical engineering …