Hard-magnetic soft materials are a class of magnetically responsive composites obtained by
embedding hard-magnetic particles into a soft polymeric matrix. They have found …

High‐value‐added biomass materials like biocarbon are being actively pursued integrating
them with soft materials in a broad range of advanced renewable energy technologies …

The magnetic microrobots promise benefits in minimally invasive cell-based therapy.
However, they generally suffer from an inevitable compromise between their magnetic …

Smart adhesives with the ability to rapidly switch, achieve high adhesion tuning ratios, and
provide precise control hold tremendous potential in various fields ranging from …

Magneto-mechanical metamaterials possess unique and tunable properties by adjusting
their shape configurations in response to an external magnetic field. Their designs and …

Conspectus Miniature machines that are highly controllable have received widespread
attention due to their potential applications in smart medicine and micromanipulation …

Shape transformation, a key mechanism for organismal survival and adaptation, has gained
importance in developing synthetic shape-shifting systems with diverse applications ranging …

Snap-through buckling of bistable structures is a classic topic in mechanics which has been
widely studied and applied in various fields such as mechanical meta-materials and soft …

Soft actuators have been an important research focus in robotics due to their advantages in
nondestructive contact and excellent motion adaptability, which enable flexible …

Robots tend to be designed to replace human beings, so as to efficiently finish some tasks in
a repeatable or dangerous situation, bring us huge economic value and good services [1–7] …