Organogels versus hydrogels: advantages, challenges, and applications

MA Kuzina, DD Kartsev… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Organogels are an important class of gels, and are comparable to hydrogels owing to their
properties as liquid‐infused soft materials. Despite the extensive choice of liquid media and …

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 …

3D‐Printed Photoresponsive Liquid Crystal Elastomer Composites for Free‐Form Actuation

Y Wang, R Yin, L Jin, M Liu, Y Gao… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Direct ink writing of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) offers a new opportunity to program
geometries for a wide variety of shape transformation modes toward applications such as …

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 …

Active materials for functional origami

S Leanza, S Wu, X Sun, HJ Qi, RR Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, origami has been explored to aid in the design of engineering structures.
These structures span multiple scales and have been demonstrated to be used toward …

Light-triggered multi-joint microactuator fabricated by two-in-one femtosecond laser writing

C Xin, Z Ren, L Zhang, L Yang, D Wang, Y Hu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Inspired by the flexible joints of humans, actuators containing soft joints have been
developed for various applications, including soft grippers, artificial muscles, and wearable …

Programming actuation onset of a liquid crystalline elastomer via isomerization of network topology

G Chen, H Feng, X Zhou, F Gao, K Zhou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Tuning actuation temperatures of liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) achieves control of
their actuation onsets, which is generally accomplished in the synthesis step and cannot be …

Enabling liquid crystal elastomers with tunable actuation temperature

Y Yao, E He, H Xu, Y Liu, Z Yang, Y Wei, Y Ji - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Liquid crystalline elastomers are regarded as a kind of desirable soft actuator material for
soft robotics and other high-tech areas. The isotropization temperature (Ti) plays an …

[HTML][HTML] Highly stretchable and sensitive SBS/Gr/CNTs fibers with hierarchical structure for strain sensors

M Liu, Y Sheng, C Huang, Y Zhou, L Jiang… - Composites Part A …, 2023 - Elsevier
Most of the reported flexible strain sensors can only normally sense external stretch in a
quite narrow working range and with low sensitivity. In order to overcome these drawbacks …

Light-fueled synchronization of two coupled liquid crystal elastomer self-oscillators

K Li, B Zhang, Q Cheng, Y Dai, Y Yu - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
The synchronization and group behaviors of self-excited coupled oscillators are common in
nature and deserve to be explored, for self-excited motions have the advantages of actively …