Recent advances in conductive hydrogels: classifications, properties, and applications

T Zhu, Y Ni, GM Biesold, Y Cheng, M Ge, H Li… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogel-based conductive materials for smart wearable devices have attracted increasing
attention due to their excellent flexibility, versatility, and outstanding biocompatibility. This …

Soft actuators for real-world applications

M Li, A Pal, A Aghakhani, A Pena-Francesch… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Inspired by physically adaptive, agile, reconfigurable and multifunctional soft-bodied
animals and human muscles, soft actuators have been developed for a variety of …

Untethered small-scale magnetic soft robot with programmable magnetization and integrated multifunctional modules

Y Dong, L Wang, N Xia, Z Yang, C Zhang, C Pan… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Intelligent magnetic soft robots capable of programmable structural changes and
multifunctionality modalities depend on material architectures and methods for controlling …

Bioinspired adaptable indwelling microneedles for treatment of diabetic ulcers

X Zhang, J Gan, L Fan, Z Luo, Y Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microneedles provide an effective strategy for transdermal drug delivery. Many endeavors
have been devoted to developing smart microneedles that can respond to and interact with …

Colloidal self-assembly approaches to smart nanostructured materials

Z Li, Q Fan, Y Yin - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Colloidal self-assembly refers to a solution-processed assembly of nanometer-/micrometer-
sized, well-dispersed particles into secondary structures, whose collective properties are …

Fully 3D-printed hydrogel actuator for jellyfish soft robots

Y Takishima, K Yoshida, A Khosla… - ECS Journal of Solid …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, interest to develop soft robots that mimic flora and fauna in the natural
environment has been growing in order to meet the demand for shortage in labor, working in …

Recent advances in stimuli‐responsive shape‐morphing hydrogels

X Liu, M Gao, J Chen, S Guo, W Zhu… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by shape‐morphing organisms in nature, researchers have developed various
hydrogels with stimuli‐responsive swelling, shrinking, bending, folding, origami, rolling …

Smart materials for microrobots

F Soto, E Karshalev, F Zhang… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Over the past 15 years, the field of microrobotics has exploded with many research groups
from around the globe contributing to numerous innovations that have led to exciting new …

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 …

DNA functional materials assembled from branched DNA: design, synthesis, and applications

Y Dong, C Yao, Y Zhu, L Yang, D Luo… - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
DNA is traditionally known as a central genetic biomolecule in living systems. From an
alternative perspective, DNA is a versatile molecular building-block for the construction of …