Soft actuators for soft robotic applications: A review

N El-Atab, RB Mishra, F Al-Modaf… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robotics technologies are paving the way toward robotic abilities which are vital for a
wide range of applications, including manufacturing, manipulation, gripping, human …

Light–matter interactions in hybrid material metasurfaces

J Guan, JE Park, S Deng, MJH Tan, J Hu… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
This Review focuses on the integration of plasmonic and dielectric metasurfaces with
emissive or stimuli-responsive materials for manipulating light–matter interactions at the …

Plasmonic surface lattice resonances: a review of properties and applications

VG Kravets, AV Kabashin, WL Barnes… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
When metal nanoparticles are arranged in an ordered array, they may scatter light to
produce diffracted waves. If one of the diffracted waves then propagates in the plane of the …

Metamaterials and metasurfaces: A review from the perspectives of materials, mechanisms and advanced metadevices

A Ali, A Mitra, B Aïssa - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Throughout human history, the control of light, electricity and heat has evolved to become
the cornerstone of various innovations and developments in electrical and electromagnetic …

Recent progress in shape memory polymer: New behavior, enabling materials, and mechanistic understanding

Q Zhao, HJ Qi, T Xie - Progress in Polymer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Shape memory polymers (SMPs), as a class of programmable stimuli-responsive shape
changing polymers, are attracting increasing attention from the standpoint of both …

Far-field coupling between moiré photonic lattices

J Guan, J Hu, Y Wang, MJH Tan, GC Schatz… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Superposing two or more periodic structures to form moiré patterns is emerging as a
promising platform to confine and manipulate light. However, moiré-facilitated interactions …

Flexible metasurfaces and metamaterials: A review of materials and fabrication processes at micro-and nano-scales

S Walia, CM Shah, P Gutruf, H Nili… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The ability to bend, stretch, and roll metamaterial devices on flexible substrates adds a new
dimension to aspects of manipulating electromagnetic waves and promises a new wave of …

“2D or not 2D”: Shape-programming polymer sheets

Y Liu, J Genzer, MD Dickey - Progress in Polymer Science, 2016 - Elsevier
This review summarizes progress toward programming two-dimensional (2D) polymer
sheets which respond to a variety of external stimuli to form three-dimensional (3D) shapes …

Self-folding of polymer sheets using local light absorption

Y Liu, JK Boyles, J Genzer, MD Dickey - Soft matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper demonstrates experimentally and models computationally a novel and simple
approach for self-folding of thin sheets of polymer using unfocused light. The sheets are …

Trends and challenges of refractometric nanoplasmonic biosensors: A review

MC Estevez, MA Otte, B Sepulveda, LM Lechuga - Analytica chimica acta, 2014 - Elsevier
Motivated by potential benefits such as sensor miniaturization, multiplexing opportunities
and higher sensitivities, refractometric nanoplasmonic biosensing has profiled itself in a …