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Liquid Crystal Elastomer-Liquid Metal Composite: Ultrafast, Untethered, and Programmable Actuation by Induction Heating
Victor Maurin, Yilong Chang, Qiji Ze +2
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a stimuli-responsive material which has been intensively studied for applications including artificial muscles, shape morphing structures, and…
Spinning-enabled Wireless Amphibious Origami Millirobot
Qiji Ze, Shuai Wu, Jize Dai +5
Wireless millimeter-scale origami robots that can locomote in narrow spaces and morph their shapes have recently been explored with great potential for biomedical applications. Exi…
Magnetic Dynamic Polymers for Modular Assembling and Reconfigurable Morphing Architectures
Xiao Kuang, Shuai Wu, Yi Jin +5
Shape morphing magnetic soft materials, composed of magnetic particles in a soft polymer matrix, can transform shapes reversibly, remotely, and rapidly, finding diverse application…
Magneto-Mechanical Metamaterials with Widely Tunable Mechanical Properties and Acoustic Bandgaps
S. Macrae Montgomery, Shuai Wu, Xiao Kuang +6
Mechanical metamaterials are architected manmade materials that allow for unique behaviors not observed in nature, making them promising candidates for a wide range of applications…
Evolutionary Algorithm Guided Voxel-Encoding Printing of Functional Hard-Magnetic Soft Active Materials
Shuai Wu, Craig M. Hamel, H. Jerry Qi +1
Hard-magnetic soft active materials (hmSAMs) have attracted a great amount of research interests due to their fast-transforming, untethered control, as well as excellent programmab…
Magnetic Shape Memory Polymers with Integrated Multifunctional Shape Manipulations
Qiji Ze, Xiao Kuang, Shuai Wu +7
Shape-programmable soft materials that exhibit integrated multifunctional shape manipulations, including reprogrammable, untethered, fast, and reversible shape transformation and l…
Symmetry-breaking Actuation Mechanism for Soft Robotics and Active Metamaterials
Shuai Wu, Qiji Ze, Rundong Zhang +4
Magnetic-responsive composites that consist of soft matrix embedded with hard-magnetic particles have recently been demonstrated as robust soft active materials for fast-transformi…