Smart soft materials are envisioned to be the building blocks of the next generation of
advanced devices and digitally augmented technologies. In this context, liquid crystals (LCs) …

Liquid crystals have been intensively studied as functional materials. Recently, integration of
various disciplines has led to new directions in the design of functional liquid‐crystalline …

Liquid crystal is a state of matter being intermediate between solid and liquid. Liquid crystal
materials exhibit both orientational order and fluidity. While liquid crystals have long been …

Mobile microrobotics has emerged as a new robotics field within the last decade to create
untethered tiny robots that can access and operate in unprecedented, dangerous, or hard‐to …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a unique class of materials that combine rubber
elasticity with liquid crystalline anisotropy to produce exceptional physical and optical …

Worldwide research in microrobotics has exploded in the past two decades, leading to the
development of microrobots propelled in various manners. Despite significant advances in …

Grabbing and holding objects at the microscale is a complex function, even for microscopic
living animals. Inspired by the hominid‐type hand, a microscopic equivalent able to catch …

The miniaturization of robots and actuators down to the micrometer length scale constitutes
a fascinating technological challenge. Their development faces fabrication issues due to the …

Medical soft robotics constitutes a rapidly developing field in the treatment of cardiovascular
diseases, with a promising future for millions of patients suffering from heart failure …

The term liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) describes a class of materials that combine the
elastic entropy behaviour associated with conventional elastomers with the stimuli …