Smart materials are a kind of functional materials which can sense and response to
environmental conditions or stimuli from optical, electrical, magnetic mechanical, thermal …

Natural organisms offer abundant inspiration for designing and fabricating hydrogel robots
with autonomous and intelligent behaviors, including motion, perception, and response to …

Stimulus-responsive shape-shifting polymers,–have shown unique promise in emerging
applications, including soft robotics,,–, medical devices, aerospace structures and flexible …

The development of advanced materials for information encryption with time-dependent
features is essential to meet the increasing demand on encryption security. Herein, smart …

Information storage and security is one of the perennial hot issues in society, while the
further advancements of related chemical anti-counterfeiting systems remain a formidable …

Molecular science entails the study of structures and properties of materials at the level of
single molecules or small interacting complexes of molecules. Moving beyond single …

Conspectus Fluorescent polymer hydrogels (FPHs) are of significant interest for diverse
emerging applications such as visualized sensing, smart display, camouflaging skins, soft …

In recent decades, origami has been explored to aid in the design of engineering structures.
These structures span multiple scales and have been demonstrated to be used toward …

Abstract 4D printing of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) via direct ink writing has opened up
great opportunities to create stimuli‐responsive actuations for applications such as soft …

Abstract Information encryption has become increasingly important in recent years; however,
information encryption materials, especially those encrypting on a time scale, are still in …