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Liquid Crystal Elastomers Under Confinement: A Review of Template‐Based Fabrication and Applications
28/11/2025 -
Template‐assisted confinement offers powerful ways to control the alignment, structure, and function of liquid crystal elastomers. This review highlights several templating strategies and details...
Multifunctional Liquid Metal–2D Material Composites: Structural Design, Properties, and Applications in Advanced Electronics
01/12/2025 -
Liquid metal (LM)–2D material composites combine the high conductivity and fluidity of LM with the anisotropic properties and rich surface chemistry of 2D materials, enabling multifunctional...
Self‐Sustained, Continuous Jumping of a Light‐Driven Electronics‐Free Insect‐Scale Soft Robot
01/12/2025 -
This work presents a 301 mg soft robot capable of continuous, autonomous jumping with energy harvesting, actuation, and control embedded in their physical structure without electronics. Coupling...
Ultra‐High Conductivity Enhancement of Robust All‐Solid‐State Ion Elastomers via Strain‐Induced Ion Channel Alignment and Temperature‐Activated Ion‐Gated Release
27/11/2025 -
Enhancing the electrical conductivity of ionic all‐solid‐state conductors under stretch and temperature‐altering conditions remains challenging. This work simultaneously achieves...
Silicone Reinforced Fabric Sensor with Dual‐Measurement Method: For Human Physiological Signal Detection and Robot Motion Detection
23/11/2025 -
This study proposes a silicone reinforced fabric sensor with a dual‐measurement method. It exhibits excellent stability and durability for a wide mechanical perception range. The method enables...
Stimuli‐Responsive Afterglow from Luminescent Liquid Crystal Elastomers
20/11/2025 -
An active glow luminescent system for encoding, signaling, and tracking in dark environments has been developed by integrating inorganic ultralong afterglow phosphors with adaptive liquid crystal...
Topology and Material Optimization in Ultra‐Soft Magneto‐Active Structures: Making Advantage of Residual Anisotropies
21/11/2025 -
Residual magnetization induces pronounced mechanical anisotropy in ultra‐soft magnetorheological elastomers, shaping deformation and actuation even without external magnetic fields. This study...
Optically Driven Eutectogel Pyroelectric for Efficient Deformable Photodetectors
17/11/2025 -
This work presents an elastomeric, self‐powered photodetector based on a polyvinyl alcohol pyroelectric eutectogel, which achieves an ultrabroad spectral response, high responsivity and...
Submicron Structure Confined Polymers for High‐Performance Intrinsically Stretchable Light‐Emitting Diodes
17/11/2025 -
We present a novel strategy for fabricating intrinsically stretchable polymer light‐emitting diodes (PLEDs) by incorporating microcrystalline elastomers into light‐emitting polymers. This...
4D Printed Hydrogel Expanders for Personalized and Accelerated Soft Tissue Regeneration
14/11/2025 -
This work reports novel 4D printed biocompatible hydrogels for soft tissue expansion. Unlike previous isotropic swelling expanders, the buckling‐induced expansion mechanism enables remarkably...
Magnetoactive Metamaterials: A State‐of‐the‐Art Review
04/11/2025 -
Magnetoactive metamaterials combine magnetoactive composites with architected metastructures to enable contactless, tunable control of mechanical, acoustic, and elastic properties. This review...
Multi‐Level Energy Dissipation and Multi‐Scenario Energy Harvesting in Elastomers Enabled by Synergistic Coordination of Subnanowires and Dynamic Boron‐Oxygen Bonds
02/11/2025 -
A polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)‐polyborosiloxane (PBS)‐GdOOH (PPG) elastomer is designed via synergistic coordination of GdOOH subnanowires (SNWs) and dynamic boron‐oxygen (B─O) bonds....
Architected Soft Actuators for Artificial Musculoskeletal Systems (Adv. Mater. 43/2025)
30/10/2025 -
Soft ActuatorsIn their Research Article (DOI: 10.1002/adma.202501290), Ryan L. Truby and co‐workers construct architected soft actuators from a combination of 3D printed elastomers that extend and...
Additive Manufacturing of Molecular Architecture Encoded Stretchable Polyethylene Glycol Hydrogels and Elastomers
29/10/2025 -
Bottlebrush molecular architecture prevents the crystallization of high molecular weight polyethylene glycol (PEG) based polymers, enabling highly stretchable photocurable PEG hydrogels and...
Self‐Adaptive Mechanical Metasurface Enabling Zero‐Power‐Consumption Thermal Management of Electronic Devices
29/10/2025 -
Effective thermal management is essential for ensuring the reliability of electronic devices. In this paper, a zero‐power‐consumption, self‐adaptive mechanical metasurface is implemented to...
Universal Water Transfer Printing Enables Scalable Structural Coloration of Responsive Textile Fibers for Wearable Electronics
25/10/2025 -
Meter‐long core‐multishelled electronic fibers are judiciously fabricated via the integration of water transfer printing and coaxial extrusion, which consist of radially aligned CLC photonic...
Accessing Multi‐Material Liquid Crystal Elastomers Via Digitally Programmable Network Topologies
22/10/2025 -
A digital programming strategy to control the network topology of liquid crystal elastomers is proposed. This approach utilizes sequential orthogonal reactions, namely digital light‐triggered...
Electric Field Driven Soft Morphing Matter (Adv. Mater. 41/2025)
17/10/2025 -
Morphing Matter Soft RobotThis cover illustrates a morphing matter soft robot controlled by remote electric fields. The robot is made of an elastomeric composite with nano paracrystalline carbon....
Is Young's Modulus a Critical Coating Property Determining Fouling‐Release Performance of Marine Coatings?
04/10/2025 -
The release of foulers from protective marine coatings is determined by several interrelated material properties, including the strength of Young's modulus, the flexibility of chain segments, the...
Synergy of Block and Microporous Polymers with Tailored Zeolitic Imidazole Frameworks for Membrane‐Based Direct Air Capture
06/10/2025 -
Thin film composite membranes‐based on PolyActive and polymer of intrinsic microporosity (PIM‐1) are prepared and modified with zeolitic imidazole frameworks (ZIF) obtained by two‐step...
