In recent decades, origami has been explored to aid in the design of engineering structures.
These structures span multiple scales and have been demonstrated to be used toward …

Phononic crystals (PCs) and metamaterials (MMs) can exhibit abnormal properties, even far
beyond those found in nature, through artificial design of the topology or ordered structure of …

The design of soft matter in which internal fuels or an external energy input can generate
locomotion and shape transformations observed in living organisms is a key challenge …

Soft materials that can undergo rapid and large deformation through the remote and
wireless action of external stimuli offer a range of tantalizing applications such as soft robots …

Recently, ferromagnetic soft continuum robots–a type of slender, thread-like robots that can
be steered magnetically–have demonstrated the capability to navigate through the brain's …

Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are a type of multifunctional materials with salient features that
are very attractive in developing soft, lightweight, and small-scale transducers and robotics …

Dielectric elastomer generator systems (DEGSs) are a class of electrostatic soft‐transducers
capable of converting oscillating mechanical power from different sources into usable …

In this paper, we present a theoretical model for the analysis of large magneto-deformation
and the anti-plane shear wave bandgaps in 2D periodic two-phase hard magnetic soft …

The mechanical response of a homogeneous isotropic linearly elastic material can be fully
characterized by two physical constants, the Young's modulus and the Poisson's ratio, which …

Hard-magnetic soft materials belong to the class of active materials that undergo finite
deformation and alter their material properties when subjected to magnetic loading …