Light-driven bimorph soft actuators: design, fabrication, and properties

Y Chen, J Yang, X Zhang, Y Feng, H Zeng, L Wang… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft robots that can move like living organisms and adapt to their surroundings are currently
in the limelight from fundamental studies to technological applications, due to their advances …

Harnessing the Metal–Insulator Transition of VO2 in Neuromorphic Computing

P Schofield, A Bradicich, RM Gurrola… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Future‐generation neuromorphic computing seeks to overcome the limitations of von
Neumann architectures by colocating logic and memory functions, thereby emulating the …

Recent progress in vanadium dioxide: The multi-stimuli responsive material and its applications

S Bhupathi, S Wang, Y Ke, Y Long - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2023 - Elsevier
The reversible phase transition in vanadium dioxide (VO 2) with light, heat, electric,
magnetic, and mechanical stimuli is the enabling concept to function as a smart material. It is …

On the optical properties of thin‐film vanadium dioxide from the visible to the far infrared

C Wan, Z Zhang, D Woolf, CM Hessel… - Annalen der …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The insulator‐to‐metal transition (IMT) in vanadium dioxide (VO2) can enable a variety of
optics applications, including switching and modulation, optical limiting, and tuning of optical …

TiO2 (R)/VO2 (M)/TiO2 (A) multilayer film as smart window: Combination of energy-saving, antifogging and self-cleaning functions

J Zheng, S Bao, P Jin - Nano Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract A novel Multifunctional TiO 2 (R)/VO 2 (M)/TiO 2 (A) multilayer film is designed and
deposited by medium frequency reactive magnetron sputtering. An exciting fact that the …

Recent progress in VO2 smart coatings: Strategies to improve the thermochromic properties

S Wang, M Liu, L Kong, Y Long, X Jiang… - Progress in Materials …, 2016 - Elsevier
Vanadium dioxide (VO 2) has attracted a great interest for smart coating applications
because of its promising thermochromic properties. Thermochromic performance of VO 2 is …

[HTML][HTML] Wafer-scale growth of VO2 thin films using a combinatorial approach

HT Zhang, L Zhang, D Mukherjee, YX Zheng… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Transition metal oxides offer functional properties beyond conventional semiconductors.
Bridging the gap between the fundamental research frontier in oxide electronics and their …

Solar energy materials for glazing technologies

G Gorgolis, D Karamanis - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2016 - Elsevier
Although window is the main medium for the lighting of the building, it contributes
significantly in the building's energy consumption, either commercial or residential. In the …

Tungsten-doped vanadium dioxide thin films as smart windows with self-cleaning and energy-saving functions

Z Liang, L Zhao, W Meng, C Zhong, S Wei… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2017 - Elsevier
A simple and cost effective sol-gel process is developed for producing thermochromic
tungsten-doped thin films of vanadium dioxide (VO 2). The precursor is first prepared by the …

van der Waal Epitaxy of Flexible and Transparent VO2 Film on Muscovite

CI Li, JC Lin, HJ Liu, MW Chu, HW Chen… - Chemistry of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Vanadium dioxide (VO2) is a compelling candidate for next-generation electronics beyond
conventional silicon-based devices due to the exhibition of a sharp metal–insulator …