Next-generation structural materials are expected to be lightweight, high-strength and tough
composites with embedded functionalities to sense, adapt, self-repair, morph and restore …

Wearable electronics offer incredible benefits in mobile healthcare monitoring, sensing,
portable energy harvesting and storage, human‐machine interactions, etc., due to the …

Smart materials are a kind of functional materials which can sense and response to
environmental conditions or stimuli from optical, electrical, magnetic mechanical, thermal …

Advances in wearable epidermal sensors have revolutionized the way that physiological
signals are captured and measured for health monitoring. One major challenge is to convert …

Natural polymers are very widespread in the world, which is why it is so important to know
about the possibilities of their use. Chitin is the second most abundant reproducible natural …

Mechanochromic photonic crystals are attractive due to their force-dependent structural
colors; however, showing unrecordable color and unsatisfied performances, which …

Photonic actuators, serving as an emerging kind of intelligent stimuli‐responsive material,
can exhibit the abilities to change their structural colors/fluorescence and shapes under …

Stimulus-responsive hydrogels, such as conductive hydrogels and thermoresponsive
hydrogels, have been explored extensively and are considered promising candidates for …

Bioinspired sensor system leads the development of new generation sensor technology with
remarkable features like ultra‐sensitivity, low‐power consumption and self‐adaptability. With …

Nature provides much inspiration for developing soft millirobots. However, compared with
smart and adaptations of lives in nature, these robotic systems still suffer from insufficiency of …