Smart soft materials are envisioned to be the building blocks of the next generation of
advanced devices and digitally augmented technologies. In this context, liquid crystals (LCs) …

Chiral nanophotonic materials are promising candidates for biosensing applications
because they focus light into nanometer dimensions, increasing their sensitivity to the …

Reliable fabrication of micro/nanostructures with sub-10 nm features is of great significance
for advancing nanoscience and nanotechnology. While the capability of current …

Following the advancements in microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip (LOC) technologies, a novel
biomedical application for microfluidic based devices has emerged in recent years and …

Since its inception, the field of robotics has aimed to create machines that mimic the
extraordinary capabilities of the human body. From as early as the 1940s, this has included …

Microfluidics, a technology characterized by the engineered manipulation of fluids at the
submillimetre scale, has shown considerable promise for improving diagnostics and biology …

Soft robots are primarily composed of easily deformable matter such as fluids, gels, and
elastomers that match the elastic and rheological properties of biological tissue and organs …

This review focuses on experimental work on nonlinear phenomena in microfluidics, which
for the most part are phenomena for which the velocity of a fluid flowing through a …

Objects in all dimensions are subject to translational dynamism and dynamic mutual
interactions, and the ability to exert control over these events is one of the keys to the …

Much of our understanding of the biological mechanisms that underlie cellular functions,
such as migration, differentiation and force-sensing has been garnered from studying cells …