Mechanically-guided 3D assembly for architected flexible electronics

R Bo, S Xu, Y Yang, Y Zhang - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Architected flexible electronic devices with rationally designed 3D geometries have found
essential applications in biology, medicine, therapeutics, sensing/imaging, energy, robotics …

Stiffness variable polymers comprising phase‐changing side‐chains: material syntheses and application explorations

M Gao, Y Meng, C Shen, Q Pei - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Stiffness variable materials have been applied in a variety of engineering fields that require
adaptation, automatic modulation, and morphing because of their unique property to switch …

Shape memory polymer with programmable recovery onset

C Ni, D Chen, Y Yin, X Wen, X Chen, C Yang, G Chen… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Stimulus-responsive shape-shifting polymers,–have shown unique promise in emerging
applications, including soft robotics,,–, medical devices, aerospace structures and flexible …

Liquid crystal elastomer metamaterials with giant biaxial thermal shrinkage for enhancing skin regeneration

J Wu, S Yao, H Zhang, W Man, Z Bai… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a class of soft active materials of increasing interest,
because of their excellent actuation and optical performances. While LCEs show biomimetic …

Magnetic dynamic polymers for modular assembling and reconfigurable morphing architectures

X Kuang, S Wu, Q Ze, L Yue, Y Jin… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Shape‐morphing magnetic soft materials, composed of magnetic particles in a soft polymer
matrix, can transform shape reversibly, remotely, and rapidly, finding diverse applications in …

A dynamically reprogrammable surface with self-evolving shape morphing

Y Bai, H Wang, Y Xue, Y Pan, JT Kim, X Ni, TL Liu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Dynamic shape-morphing soft materials systems are ubiquitous in living organisms; they are
also of rapidly increasing relevance to emerging technologies in soft machines,–, flexible …

Laser‐induced graphene for electrothermally controlled, mechanically guided, 3D assembly and human–soft actuators interaction

Y Ling, W Pang, X Li, S Goswami, Z Xu… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanically guided, 3D assembly has attracted broad interests, owing to its compatibility
with planar fabrication techniques and applicability to a diversity of geometries and length …

4D printing of multi‐responsive membrane for accelerated in vivo bone healing via remote regulation of stem cell fate

D You, G Chen, C Liu, X Ye, S Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic regulation of substrate micro‐structures is an effective strategy to control stem cell
fate in tissue engineering. Translating this into in vivo tissue repair in a clinical setting …

Complex 3D microfluidic architectures formed by mechanically guided compressive buckling

H Luan, Q Zhang, TL Liu, X Wang, S Zhao, H Wang… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Microfluidic technologies have wide-ranging applications in chemical analysis systems, drug
delivery platforms, and artificial vascular networks. This latter area is particularly relevant to …

SMP-based chiral auxetic mechanical metamaterial with tunable bandgap function

YL Wei, QS Yang, R Tao - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Artificial designed metamaterials have attracted widespread attention because of its unique
lattice structure and special physical properties. In this work, a chiral auxetic metamaterial …