The intrinsic compliance of soft robots provides safety, a natural adaptation to its
environment, allows to absorb shocks, and protects them against mechanical impacts …

To meet more application requirements, improving mechanical properties and self-healing
efficiency has become the focus of current research on self-healing PU. The competitive …

Hydrogel materials show promise for diverse applications, particular as biocompatible
materials due to their high water content. Despite advances in hydrogel technology in recent …

Soft robots are, due to their softness, inherently safe and adapt well to unstructured
environments. However, they are prone to various damage types. Self‐healing polymers …

Covalent adaptable networks (CANs) are polymeric networks containing covalent crosslinks
that are dynamic under specific conditions. In addition to possessing the malleability of …

Dynamic materials (DMs) or dynamers have potential applications across a broad range of
material science challenges. These applications include sustainable materials as a part of …

Smart materials that integrate multiple functions into one system broaden the application
range of materials, but there are still challenges to obtaining a material with excellent shape …

A series of tunable interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) hydrogels are designed by the
orthogonal incorporation of two distinct types of reversible bonds, ie, Schiff base bonds and …

Traditional interpenetrating polymer networks (IPNs) are not adaptable materials because
the topological structure of the macromolecules cannot be changed, which limits their …

Introducing dynamic and exchangeable bonds can breathe life into polymers by imparting
self-healing, enhanced toughness, or adaptability to the material. Synergies between the …