Hydrogels are a unique class of three dimensional cross-linked polymeric networks that can
hold a large fraction of aqueous solvents and biological fluids within their structures …

Controlling the surface chemical and physical properties of materials and modulating the
interfacial behaviors of biological entities, eg, cells and biomolecules, are central tasks in the …

Despite its compactness, the human eye can easily focus on different distances by adjusting
the shape of its lens with the help of ciliary muscles. In contrast, traditional man-made optical …

Acoustic actuation of bioinspired microswimmers is experimentally demonstrated.
Microswimmers are fabricated in situ in a microchannel. Upon acoustic excitation, the …

The design and fabrication of devices that based on adaptive soft matter with the
autonomous transduction of environmental and field signals is an interesting area of …

There has been increasing interest in integrated microfluidic systems because performing
biological and chemical laboratory tasks on a single chip is appealing. One straightforward …

We report a method for creating stimuli-responsive biomaterials in which scanning nonlinear
excitation is used to photocrosslink proteins at submicrometer 3D coordinates. Proteins with …

The concept of using stimuli-responsive hydrogels to actuate fluids in microfluidic devices is
particularly attractive, but limitations, in terms of spatial resolution, speed, reliability and …

The first book to tackle the application of smart polymers in bioseparation and
bioprocessing, Smart Polymers: Applications in Biotechnology and Biomedicine broke new …

Microfluidic devices have not yet evolved into commercial off-the-shelf products. Although
highly integrated microfluidic structures, also known as lab-on-a-chip (LOC) and micrototal …