Mechanically flexible and conformable materials and integrated devices have found diverse
applications in personalized healthcare as diagnostics and therapeutics, tissue engineering …

The surge in advanced manufacturing techniques has led to a paradigm shift in the realm of
material design from developing completely new chemistry to tailoring geometry within …

Azobenzene has been widely explored as a photoresponsive element in materials science.
Although some studies have investigated the force-induced isomerization of azobenzene …

Photoresponsive soft actuators with the unique merits of flexibility, contactless operation,
and remote control have huge potential in technological applications of bionic robotics and …

Light-activated self-oscillators have drawn enormous attention for their potential applications
in mobile machines, energy harvesting, signal modulation, etc. Herein, we report one …

Soft actuators based on liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are captivating significant
interest because of their unique properties combining the programmable liquid crystalline …

Beyond typical flexible electronics, stimuli-responsive shape-reconfigurable electronics are
great candidates for the next-generation miniaturized electronics, carrying out complex …

Stimuli-responsive materials hold great potential for the development of smart materials due
to their specifically tailored characteristics. However, it is challenging to understand internal …

State‐of‐the‐art triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) typically employ fluoropolymers,
highly negative chargeable materials in triboelectric series. However, many researchers …

The capability of liquid crystals (LCs), that instantaneously modulate their physical and
chemical properties in response to a target stimulus, found a killer application of liquid …