The role of 3D printing technologies in soft grippers

Y Xin, X Zhou, H Bark, PS Lee - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soft grippers are essential for precise and gentle handling of delicate, fragile, and easy‐to‐
break objects, such as glassware, electronic components, food items, and biological …

Materials, structure, and interface of stretchable interconnects for wearable bioelectronics

Y Li, A Veronica, J Ma, HYY Nyein - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Since wearable technologies for telemedicine have emerged to tackle global health
concerns, the demand for well‐attested wearable healthcare devices with high user comfort …

Bioinspired Ultra‐Robust Ionogels Constructed with Soft‐Rigid Confinement Space for Multimodal Monitoring Electronics

J Wang, Y Zheng, T Cui, T Huang, H Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ionogels are compelling materials for flexible hybrid electronics owing to their attractive
physical properties and infinite adjustability of chemical structures. However, ionogels must …

Mechanical Regulation of Polymer Gels

C Xu, Y Chen, S Zhao, D Li, X Tang, H Zhang… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The mechanical properties of polymer gels devote to emerging devices and machines in
fields such as biomedical engineering, flexible bioelectronics, biomimetic actuators, and …

A highly transparent, underwater self-healing, self-adhesive, and recyclable supramolecular eutectogel for liquid metal encapsulation

H Zhang, Y Hu, Z Liu, R Li, Y Cao - ACS Materials Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
One-step preparation of supramolecular eutectogels (SEGs) with water resistance,
transparency, underwater self-healing, self-adhesion, and full recyclability using a simple …

Jellyfish‐inspired polyurea ionogel with mechanical robustness, self‐healing, and fluorescence enabled by hyperbranched cluster aggregates

Z Zhang, L Qian, B Zhang, C Ma… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ionogels are promising for soft iontronics, with their network structure playing a pivotal role in
determining their performance and potential applications. However, simultaneously …

Structurally-colored adhesives for sensitive, high-resolution, and non-invasive adhesion self-monitoring

Q Lyu, M Li, L Zhang, J Zhu - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Polymeric adhesives are critical in many applications, from daily life to implantable devices
and soft robotics. Monitoring adhesion in a real-time and convenient manner before …

Towards high performance and durable soft tactile actuators

MWM Tan, H Wang, D Gao, P Huang… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft actuators are gaining significant attention due to their ability to provide realistic tactile
sensations in various applications. However, their soft nature makes them vulnerable to …

Branched Oligomer‐Based Reversible Adhesives Enabled by Controllable Self‐Aggregation

C Qin, H Yang, B Li, Z Xing, B Yu, M Cai… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Supramolecular adhesion material systems based on small molecules have shown great
potential to unite the great contradiction between strong adhesion and reversibility …

Charge transfer behavior of triboelectric polymers and triboelectric sensors operated under ultrahigh pressure

J Hu, Z Liu, P Yang, S Qin, N Li, W Ji, ZL Wang… - SusMat, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The energy generation performance of triboelectric materials under ultrahigh pressure
remains to be investigated. Here, the variations in molecular structure and built‐in electric …