Bioinspired hydrogel actuator for soft robotics: Opportunity and challenges

Y Chen, Y Zhang, H Li, J Shen, F Zhang, J He, J Lin… - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural organisms offer abundant inspiration for designing and fabricating hydrogel robots
with autonomous and intelligent behaviors, including motion, perception, and response to …

Recent advances in 4D printing of liquid crystal elastomers

M Chen, M Gao, L Bai, H Zheng, HJ Qi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are renowned for their large, reversible, and anisotropic
shape change in response to various external stimuli due to their lightly cross‐linked …

Three‐dimensional electrochromic soft photonic crystals based on MXene‐integrated blue phase liquid crystals for bioinspired visible and infrared camouflage

X Zhang, Y Yang, P Xue, C Valenzuela… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Developing bioinspired camouflage materials that can adaptively change color in the visible
and infrared (IR) regions is an intriguing but challenging task. Herein, we report an emerging …

Locally controllable magnetic soft actuators with reprogrammable contraction-derived motions

Y Wu, S Zhang, Y Yang, Z Li, Y Wei, Y Ji - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Reprogrammable magneto-responsive soft actuators capable of working in enclosed and
confined spaces and adapting functions under changing situations are highly demanded for …

Liquid crystal-templated chiral nanomaterials: from chiral plasmonics to circularly polarized luminescence

X Zhang, Y Xu, C Valenzuela, X Zhang… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Chiral nanomaterials with intrinsic chirality or spatial asymmetry at the nanoscale are
currently in the limelight of both fundamental research and diverse important technological …

4D printing of reprogrammable liquid crystal elastomers with synergistic photochromism and photoactuation

M Chen, Y Hou, R An, HJ Qi, K Zhou - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 4D printing of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) via direct ink writing has opened up
great opportunities to create stimuli‐responsive actuations for applications such as soft …

Stimulus‐responsive photonic crystals for advanced security

W Wang, Y Zhou, L Yang, X Yang, Y Yao… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Counterfeiting is a growing global issue causing severe negative impacts on the social
economy and posing serious security threats to individuals and communities. However, the …

Bioinspired MXene-based soft actuators exhibiting angle-independent structural color

P Xue, Y Chen, Y Xu, C Valenzuela, X Zhang… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
In nature, many living organisms exhibiting unique structural coloration and soft-bodied
actuation have inspired scientists to develop advanced structural colored soft actuators …

Robust integration of polymerizable perovskite quantum dots with responsive polymers enables 4D-printed self-deployable information display

X Yang, C Valenzuela, X Zhang, Y Chen, Y Yang… - Matter, 2023 - cell.com
The development of highly luminescent perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) that can effectively
merge with functional polymers is of paramount importance for next-generation flexible …

Highly crystalline carbon nitrogen polymer with a strong built-in electric fields for ultra-high photocatalytic H2O2 production

L Jian, Y Dong, H Zhao, C Pan, G Wang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2024 - Elsevier
Efficient photogenerated charge separation and rapid migration provide more charges for
surface redox reactions. Herein, the carbon nitride polymer with highly crystalline is …