Magnetic soft robots: Design, actuation, and function

H Wang, Z Zhu, H Jin, R Wei, L Bi, W Zhang - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Driven by advances in soft material science, magnetic soft robots have recently attracted
significant attention owing to their remarkable reprogramming deformations under magnetic …

A review on fabrication and application of tunable hybrid micro–nano array surfaces

C Li, J Yang, W He, M Xiong, X Niu… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The wettability and adhesion of biological surfaces often depend on their periodically
arranged hybrid micro–nano array structures. Various fabrication processes are designed to …

Creating three-dimensional magnetic functional microdevices via molding-integrated direct laser writing

Z Liu, M Li, X Dong, Z Ren, W Hu, M Sitti - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetically driven wireless miniature devices have become promising recently in
healthcare, information technology, and many other fields. However, they lack advanced …

Accurate magneto‐driven multi‐dimensional droplet manipulation

X Jing, H Chen, L Zhang, S Zhao… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet manipulation has gradually drawn worldwide attention through diverse potential
applications such as microfluidics, and medical diagnostic test. Whereas, the high‐precision …

Advanced materials and sensors for microphysiological systems: focus on electronic and electrooptical interfaces

H Kavand, R Nasiri, A Herland - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced in vitro cell culture systems or microphysiological systems (MPSs), including
microfluidic organ‐on‐a‐chip (OoC), are breakthrough technologies in biomedicine. These …

Bioinspired hierarchical structures for contact‐sensible adhesives

H Hu, D Wang, H Tian, Q Huang… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bioinspired structural adhesives that are capable of bonding two objects together have
recently found widespread applications in industrial fields, because of their promising …

Robust and highly sensitive cellulose nanofiber-based humidity actuators

J Wei, S Jia, J Guan, C Ma, Z Shao - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The design of humidity actuators with high response sensitivity (especially actuation time)
while maintaining favorable mechanical properties is important for advanced intelligent …

Recent Progress on the Development of Magnetically‐Responsive Micropillars: Actuation, Fabrication, and Applications

K Ni, Z Wang - Advanced Functional Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stimuli‐responsive micro‐pillared structures can perform complex and precise tasks at the
microscale through dynamic and reversible deformation of the pillars in response to external …

Reprogrammable soft robot actuation by synergistic magnetic and light fields

B Han, ZC Ma, YL Zhang, L Zhu, H Fan… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robots controlled by different actuation schemes are flourishing owing to the continued
development of smart materials. However, most of the existing actuators are powered by a …

Endowing actuators with sensing capability: Recent progress on perceptive soft actuators

L Li, W Zhang, Z Ren, L Chang, X Xu, Y Hu - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, soft actuators have received enormous interest for potential
applications in artificial muscles, soft grippers, wearable devices, minimally invasive surgery …