Beyond the visible: bioinspired infrared adaptive materials

J Yang, X Zhang, X Zhang, L Wang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Infrared (IR) adaptation phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and biological systems. Taking
inspiration from natural creatures, researchers have devoted extensive efforts for developing …

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 …

An adaptive multispectral mechano-optical system for multipurpose applications

L Liang, R Yu, SJH Ong, Y Yang, B Zhang, G Ji, ZJ Xu - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Mechano-optical systems with on-demand adaptability and a broad spectrum from the
visible to microwave are critical for complex multiband electromagnetic (EM) applications …

Three‐dimensional electrochromic soft photonic crystals based on MXene‐integrated blue phase liquid crystals for bioinspired visible and infrared camouflage

X Zhang, Y Yang, P Xue, C Valenzuela… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Developing bioinspired camouflage materials that can adaptively change color in the visible
and infrared (IR) regions is an intriguing but challenging task. Herein, we report an emerging …

Ultrahigh-efficient material informatics inverse design of thermal metamaterials for visible-infrared-compatible camouflage

W Xi, YJ Lee, S Yu, Z Chen, J Shiomi, SK Kim… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Multispectral camouflage technologies, especially in the most frequently-used visible and
infrared (VIS-IR) bands, are in increasing demand for the ever-growing multispectral …

Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices

Y Li, W Li, T Han, X Zheng, J Li, B Li, S Fan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

Whole-infrared-band camouflage with dual-band radiative heat dissipation

B Qin, Y Zhu, Y Zhou, M Qiu, Q Li - Light: Science & Applications, 2023 - nature.com
Advanced multispectral detection technologies have emerged as a significant threat to
objects, necessitating the use of multiband camouflage. However, achieving effective …

Biomimetic chameleon soft robot with artificial crypsis and disruptive coloration skin

H Kim, J Choi, KK Kim, P Won, S Hong… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Development of an artificial camouflage at a complete device level remains a vastly
challenging task, especially under the aim of achieving more advanced and natural …

Review of dielectric elastomer actuators and their applications in soft robots

Y Guo, L Liu, Y Liu, J Leng - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the inherent rigidity of hard materials, the adaptability and flexibility of traditional
robots are limited. Recently, soft robots became one of the most attractive areas. The …

Thermal camouflaging metamaterials

R Hu, W Xi, Y Liu, K Tang, J Song, X Luo, J Wu… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermal camouflage technologies, which aim at blending the infrared (IR) signature of
targets into the background to counter the IR detection, have witnessed increasing …