Kirigami, a traditional paper cutting art, offers a promising strategy for 2D-to-3D shape morphing through cut-guided deformation. Existing kirigami designs for target 3D curved shapes rely on intricate cut patterns in thin sheets, making the inverse...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Jan 17, 2022
Inspired by the dynamic process of initial bone development, in which a soft tissue turns into a solid load-bearing structure, the fabrication, optimization, and characterization of bioinduced variable-stiffness actuators that can morph in various sh...
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Dec 23, 2021
Manipulation of cell-cell interactions via cell surface engineering has potential biomedical applications in tissue engineering and cell therapy. However, manipulation of the comprehensive and multiple intercellular interactions remains a challenge a...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Dec 16, 2021
Soft actuators with sensing capabilities are important in intelligent robots and human-computer interactions. However, present perceptive actuating systems rely on the integration of multiple functional units with complex circuit design. Here, a new-...
Antimicrobials against planktonic cells and established biofilms at low doses are in increasing demand to tackle antibiotic-resistant biofilm infections. As a promising alternative to antibiotics, cationic polymers can effectively kill planktonic mic...
Novel boronic acid-functionalized magnetic multi-walled carbon nanotubes with flexible branched polymer (FeO@MWCNTs@ε-PL@BA) nanocomposites were fabricated and applied as the desorption/ionization matrix for the MALDI-TOF-MS determination of low mole...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Dec 6, 2021
Colors enable interaction and communication between living species in a myriad of biological and artificial environments. While living organisms feature low-power mechanisms to dynamically control color in soft tissues, man-made color-changing device...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Nov 9, 2021
A rich body of literature has emerged in recent years that discusses the extraction of structured information from materials science text through named entity recognition models. Relatively little work has been done to address the "normalization" of ...
The physics of soft matter can contribute to the revolution in robotics and medical prostheses. These two fields require the development of artificial muscles with behavior close to biological muscles. Today, artificial muscles rely mostly on active ...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Oct 28, 2021
Recent efforts in stimuli-responsive soft materials have enabled wirelessly controlled actuation with increasing degrees of freedom, yielding miniature robots capable of various locomotion in open environments such as on a plane or inside fluids. How...