Advancements in polymer science and engineering have helped the scientific community to
shift its attention towards the use of environmentally benign materials for reducing the …

Abstract 4D bioprinting is the next-generation additive manufacturing-based fabrication
platform employed to construct intricate, adaptive, and dynamic soft and hard tissue …

In recent years, extensive efforts have been devoted to electronic miniaturization and
integration. Accordingly, heating up of electronics has become a critical problem that needs …

Compared to other commonly used materials in the field of soft actuators, cellulose offers
many advantages such as low cost, sustainability, versatile applications, and abundancy …

Sustainable biomass has attracted a great attention in developing green renewable energy
storage devices (eg, supercapacitors) with low-cost, flexible and lightweight characteristics …

This research work deals with analyzing instability and nonlinear behaviors of piezoelectric
thermal nano-bridges. An adjustable thermo-elastic model with the ability to control stability …

This study presents a novel and facile strategy to construct prestrain-free dielectric elastomer
(DE) film with large out-of-plane actuation. An extremely soft elastomer of amino …

This work mainly studies the effect of calcium chloride crosslinking on the bending force
properties of sodium alginate-based polymer gel paper actuators (PGPAs), where the …

4D-printed structures may fold or unfold in predetermined forms if activated by an external
stimulus, thereby opening the door to various exciting applications. To do so, a geometric …

The existing studies indicate that the application of piezoelectric polymers is becoming more
and more extensive, especially in the analysis and design of sensors or actuators, but the …