Bioinspired hydrogel actuator for soft robotics: Opportunity and challenges

Y Chen, Y Zhang, H Li, J Shen, F Zhang, J He, J Lin… - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural organisms offer abundant inspiration for designing and fabricating hydrogel robots
with autonomous and intelligent behaviors, including motion, perception, and response to …

Beyond the visible: bioinspired infrared adaptive materials

J Yang, X Zhang, X Zhang, L Wang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Infrared (IR) adaptation phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and biological systems. Taking
inspiration from natural creatures, researchers have devoted extensive efforts for developing …

Bioinspired phototropic MXene‐reinforced soft tubular actuators for omnidirectional light‐tracking and adaptive photovoltaics

M Yang, Y Xu, X Zhang, HK Bisoyi… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Endowing artificial advanced materials and systems with biomimetic self‐regulatory
intelligence is of paramount significance for the development of somatosensory soft robotics …

Mechanochromic, shape‐programmable and self‐healable cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers enabled by dynamic covalent boronic ester bonds

J Ma, Y Yang, C Valenzuela, X Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Endowing a cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer (CLCE) exhibiting a helicoidal nanostructure
with dynamically tailorable functionalities is of paramount significance for its emerging …

Recent advances in 4D printing of liquid crystal elastomers

M Chen, M Gao, L Bai, H Zheng, HJ Qi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are renowned for their large, reversible, and anisotropic
shape change in response to various external stimuli due to their lightly cross‐linked …

Light-driven dandelion-inspired microfliers

Y Chen, C Valenzuela, X Zhang, X Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In nature, many plants have evolved diverse flight mechanisms to disperse seeds by wind
and propagate their genetic information. Inspired by the flight mechanism of the dandelion …

Sunlight-powered self-excited oscillators for sustainable autonomous soft robotics

Y Zhao, Q Li, Z Liu, Y Alsaid, P Shi, M Khalid Jawed… - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
As the field of soft robotics advances, full autonomy becomes highly sought after, especially
if robot motion can be powered by environmental energy. This would present a self …

Liquid crystal-templated chiral nanomaterials: from chiral plasmonics to circularly polarized luminescence

X Zhang, Y Xu, C Valenzuela, X Zhang… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Chiral nanomaterials with intrinsic chirality or spatial asymmetry at the nanoscale are
currently in the limelight of both fundamental research and diverse important technological …

Nanocellulose‐based functional materials: from chiral photonics to soft actuator and energy storage

P Lv, X Lu, L Wang, W Feng - Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocellulose is currently in the limelight of extensive research from fundamental science to
technological applications owing to its renewable and carbon‐neutral nature, superior …

Engineered exosomes from different sources for cancer-targeted therapy

M Zhang, S Hu, L Liu, P Dang, Y Liu, Z Sun… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Exosome is a subgroup of extracellular vesicles, which has been serving as an efficient
therapeutic tool for various diseases. Engineered exosomes are the sort of exosomes …