Mimicking human and biological skins for multifunctional skin electronics

Y Lee, J Park, A Choe, S Cho, J Kim… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Electronic skin (e‐skin) technology is an exciting frontier to drive the next generation of
wearable electronics owing to its high level of wearability, enabling high accuracy to harvest …

Phenotypic plasticity, canalization, and the origins of novelty: evidence and mechanisms from amphibians

NA Levis, DW Pfennig - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2019 - Elsevier
A growing number of biologists have begun asking whether environmentally induced
phenotypic change––'phenotypic plasticity'––precedes and facilitates the origin and …

Air‐Working Electrochromic Artificial Muscles

Y Ling, L Li, J Liu, K Li, C Hou, Q Zhang, Y Li… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial muscles are indispensable components for next‐generation robotics to mimic the
sophisticated movements of living systems and provide higher output energies when …

Robotic surfaces with reversible, spatiotemporal control for shape morphing and object manipulation

K Liu, F Hacker, C Daraio - Science Robotics, 2021 - science.org
Continuous and controlled shape morphing is essential for soft machines to conform, grasp,
and move while interacting safely with their surroundings. Shape morphing can be achieved …

New mining concessions could severely decrease biodiversity and ecosystem services in Ecuador

BA Roy, M Zorrilla, L Endara… - Tropical …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Ecuador has among the world's highest biodiversity, despite being a tiny fraction of the
world's land area. The threat of extinction for some of this biodiversity has dramatically …

Glassfrogs of Ecuador: diversity, evolution, and conservation

JM Guayasamin, DF Cisneros-Heredia, RW McDiarmid… - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
Glassfrogs (family: Centrolenidae) represent a fantastic radiation (~ 150 described species)
of Neotropical anurans that originated in South America and dispersed into Central America …

Lattice-contraction triggered synchronous electrochromic actuator

K Li, Y Shao, H Yan, Z Lu, KJ Griffith, J Yan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Materials with synchronous capabilities of color change and actuation have prospects for
application in biomimetic dual-stealth camouflage and artificial intelligence. However …

Comparative phylogeography reveals cryptic diversity and repeated patterns of cladogenesis for amphibians and reptiles in northwestern Ecuador

A Arteaga, RA Pyron, N Peñafiel, P Romero-Barreto… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Comparative phylogeography allow us to understand how shared historical circumstances
have shaped the formation of lineages, by examining a broad spectrum of co-distributed …

Evolutionary developmental robotics: Improving morphology and control of physical robots

V Vujovic, A Rosendo, L Brodbeck, F Iida - Artificial life, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
Evolutionary algorithms have previously been applied to the design of morphology and
control of robots. The design space for such tasks can be very complex, which can prevent …

On the evolution of epigenetics via exaptation: A developmental systems perspective

DS Moore - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Evolution and development are interrelated processes influenced by genomic, epigenetic,
and environmental factors. Epigenetic processes serve critical roles in development and …