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

Soft robotics technologies are paving the way toward robotic abilities which are vital for a
wide range of applications, including manufacturing, manipulation, gripping, human …

Abstract Four-dimensional (4D) bioprinting, in which the concept of time is integrated with
three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting as the fourth dimension, has currently emerged as the …

Hydrogels, which are hydrophilic soft porous networks, are an important class of materials of
broad relevance to bioanalytical chemistry, soft‐robotics, drug delivery, and regenerative …

The rapid development of microtechnology in recent times has increased the necessity for
the development of devices, which are able to perform mechanical work on the micro-and …

Three‐dimensionally printed constructs are static and do not recapitulate the dynamic nature
of tissues. Four‐dimensional (4D) bioprinting has emerged to include conformational …

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Thermoresponsive polymers are a class of “smart” materials that have the ability to respond
to a change in temperature; a property that makes them useful materials in a wide range of …

Recently,“smart” hydrogels with either shape memory behavior or reversible actuation have
received particular attention and have been further developed into sensors, actuators, or …

This review summarizes progress toward programming two-dimensional (2D) polymer
sheets which respond to a variety of external stimuli to form three-dimensional (3D) shapes …