Engineered living biomaterials

A Rodrigo-Navarro, S Sankaran, MJ Dalby… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Biomaterials have evolved from inert materials that lack interaction with the body to
biologically active, instructive materials that host and provide signals to surrounding cells …

Artificial neuron devices

K He, C Wang, Y He, J Su, X Chen - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Efforts to design devices emulating complex cognitive abilities and response processes of
biological systems have long been a coveted goal. Recent advancements in flexible …

Trends in micro‐/nanorobotics: materials development, actuation, localization, and system integration for biomedical applications

B Wang, K Kostarelos, BJ Nelson… - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Micro‐/nanorobots (m‐bots) have attracted significant interest due to their suitability
for applications in biomedical engineering and environmental remediation. Particularly, their …

Silver nanosheets doped polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel piezoresistive bifunctional sensor with a wide range and high resolution for human motion detection

J Liu, E Chen, Y Wu, H Yang, K Huang… - … Composites and Hybrid …, 2022 - Springer
The soft pressure sensor is a very important element in flexible wearable devices. Its
advantage is that it can adapt to curves and deformed surfaces, and it is widely used in …

Locomotion of miniature soft robots

CSX Ng, MWM Tan, C Xu, Z Yang, PS Lee… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Miniature soft robots are mobile devices, which are made of smart materials that can be
actuated by external stimuli to realize their desired functionalities. Here, the key …

Additive manufacturing aimed to soft robots fabrication: A review

G Stano, G Percoco - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
In the 21st century, robotics has been revolutionized by a new perspective: robots made of
soft materials mimicking nature show several advantages compared to hard robot …

Highly robust and soft biohybrid mechanoluminescence for optical signaling and illumination

C Li, Q He, Y Wang, Z Wang, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Biohybrid is a newly emerging and promising approach to construct soft robotics and soft
machines with novel functions, high energy efficiency, great adaptivity and intelligence …

An on-demand plant-based actuator created using conformable electrodes

W Li, N Matsuhisa, Z Liu, M Wang, Y Luo, P Cai… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Owing to their adaptive interfacial properties, soft actuators can be used to perform more
delicate tasks than their rigid counterparts. However, traditional polymeric soft actuators rely …

Biohybrid robotics with living cell actuation

L Sun, Y Yu, Z Chen, F Bian, F Ye, L Sun… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
As simulators of organisms in Nature, soft robots have been developed over the past few
decades. In particular, biohybrid robots constructed by integrating living cells with soft …

Optimized photoclick (bio) resins for fast volumetric bioprinting

R Rizzo, D Ruetsche, H Liu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Volumetric printing (VP) is a light‐mediated technique enabling printing of complex, low‐
defect 3D objects within seconds, overcoming major drawbacks of layer‐by‐layer additive …