Smart and multifunctional materials based on electroactive poly (vinylidene fluoride): recent advances and opportunities in sensors, actuators, energy, environmental …

CM Costa, VF Cardoso, P Martins, DM Correia… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
From scientific and technological points of view, poly (vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, is one of
the most exciting polymers due to its overall physicochemical characteristics. This polymer …

Recent advances in the additive manufacturing of stimuli‐responsive soft polymers

A Tariq, ZU Arif, MY Khalid, M Hossain… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stimuli‐responsive polymers (SRPs) are special types of soft materials, which have been
extensively used for developing flexible actuators, soft robots, wearable devices, sensors …

Large-scale spinning approach to engineering knittable hydrogel fiber for soft robots

X Duan, J Yu, Y Zhu, Z Zheng, Q Liao, Y Xiao, Y Li… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Efforts to impart responsiveness to environmental stimuli in artificial hydrogel fibers are
crucial to intelligent, shape-memory electronics and weavable soft robots. However, owing …

Highly flexible, large-deformation ionic polymer metal composites for artificial muscles: Fabrication, properties, applications, and prospects

H Wang, L Yang, Y Yang, D Zhang, A Tian - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Intelligent materials are one of the important directions in the development of modern high-
tech new materials, realizing structural functionalization and functional diversification. As a …

Polymer-based actuators: back to the future

P Martins, DM Correia, V Correia… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymer-based actuators play a key role in the area of smart materials and devices, and for
this reason different polymer-based actuators have appeared in recent years and are …

High-security information encryption strategy based on optical functional materials: A review on materials design, problems, multiple coding, and beyond

AO Omoniyi, Y Wang, S Yang, J Liu, J Zhang… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
The proliferation of visual communication and data storage has resulted in the need for
secure information protection, rendering data security a crucial concern. Researchers have …

Electroactive soft actuators based on columnar ionic liquid crystal/polymer composite membrane electrolytes forming 3D continuous ionic channels

S Cao, J Aimi, M Yoshio - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022 - ACS Publications
Here, we report low-voltage-driven fast-response nanostructured columnar ionic liquid
crystal/polymer composite actuators that form three-dimensional continuous ion channels. A …

Surface profile topography of ionic polymer metal composite based on fractal theory

L Yang, D Zhang, X Zhang, A Tian - Surfaces and Interfaces, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) with platinum and copper electrodes are
prepared, and their surface and cross-section morphology are analyzed. The accuracies of …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in preparation process of ionic polymer-metal composites

L Yang, H Wang, X Zhang - Results in Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
Ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) is a typical electroactive polymers material, which has
the advantages of light weight, fast response, good flexibility, large deformation range and …

Machine learning aided design of polymer with targeted band gap based on DFT computation

P Xu, T Lu, L Ju, L Tian, M Li, W Lu - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Polymer band gap is one of the most important properties associated with electric
conductivity. In this work, the machine learning model called support vector regression …