Soft robotics technologies are paving the way toward robotic abilities which are vital for a
wide range of applications, including manufacturing, manipulation, gripping, human …

Carbon-based functional nanomaterials have attracted remarkable attention from the
scientific community for their unique combinations of advantageous chemical and physical …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) hold the promise of delivering exceptional mechanical properties
and multi-functional characteristics. Ever-increasing interest in applying CNTs in many …

For various applications, it is challenging but essential to obtain complex tunable
mechanical actuations in response to environmental stimuli. Here, a general and effective …

Although the technological and scientific importance of functional polymers has been well
established over the last few decades, the most recent focus that has attracted much …

Bio‐inspired actuation materials, also called artificial muscles, have attracted great attention
in recent decades for their potential application in intelligent robots, biomedical devices, and …

This review describes recent progresses in the development and applications of smart
polymeric gels, especially in the context of biomedical devices. The review has been …

Light-to-heat conversion systems have been attracting growing research interest in the last
few decades, due to their highly intriguing photothermal properties and their wide …

Organic molecules can transform photons into Angstrom‐scale motions by undergoing
photochemical reactions. Ordered media, for example, liquid crystals or molecular crystals …

Photoactuators with integrated optical‐to‐mechanical energy conversion capacity have
attracted growing research interest in the last few decades due to their unique features of …