Hydrogel‐based flexible electronics

L Hu, PL Chee, S Sugiarto, Y Yu, C Shi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible electronics is an emerging field of research involving multiple disciplines, which
include but not limited to physics, chemistry, materials science, electronic engineering, and …

[HTML][HTML] Responsive materials architected in space and time

X Xia, CM Spadaccini, JR Greer - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Rationally designed architected materials have attained previously untapped territories in
materials property space. The properties and behaviours of architected materials need not …

Hydrogel-based strong and fast actuators by electroosmotic turgor pressure

H Na, YW Kang, CS Park, S Jung, HY Kim, JY Sun - Science, 2022 - science.org
Hydrogels are promising as materials for soft actuators because of qualities such as
softness, transparency, and responsiveness to stimuli. However, weak and slow actuations …

Soft materials by design: unconventional polymer networks give extreme properties

X Zhao, X Chen, H Yuk, S Lin, X Liu… - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels are polymer networks infiltrated with water. Many biological hydrogels in animal
bodies such as muscles, heart valves, cartilages, and tendons possess extreme mechanical …

Graphene implanted shape memory polymers with dielectric gene dominated highly efficient microwave drive

YC Wang, YZ Wang, JC Shu, WQ Cao… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microwave‐driven strategy shows many advantages including selective energization,
uniform heating, and high penetration depth, which is a hot topic in wireless actuators …

Recent advances in stimuli‐responsive shape‐morphing hydrogels

X Liu, M Gao, J Chen, S Guo, W Zhu… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by shape‐morphing organisms in nature, researchers have developed various
hydrogels with stimuli‐responsive swelling, shrinking, bending, folding, origami, rolling …

Hydrogel machines

X Liu, J Liu, S Lin, X Zhao - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
As polymer networks infiltrated with water, hydrogels constitute the major components of the
human body; and hydrogels have been widely used in applications that closely interact with …

Catechol-functionalized hydrogels: biomimetic design, adhesion mechanism, and biomedical applications

W Zhang, R Wang, ZM Sun, X Zhu, Q Zhao… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogels are a unique class of polymeric materials that possess an interconnected porous
network across various length scales from nano-to macroscopic dimensions and exhibit …

Near‐Infrared light‐driven shape‐morphing of programmable anisotropic hydrogels enabled by MXene Nanosheets

P Xue, HK Bisoyi, Y Chen, H Zeng… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we report near‐infrared (NIR) light‐driven shape‐morphing of programmable
MXene‐containing anisotropic hydrogel actuators that are fabricated through in situ free …

Hydrogel adhesion: a supramolecular synergy of chemistry, topology, and mechanics

J Yang, R Bai, B Chen, Z Suo - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Adhering hydrogels to various materials is fundamental to a large array of established and
emerging applications. The last few years have seen transformative advances in achieving …