Yuanhao Chen

TL;DR: NIR light-driven shape morphing of the MXene-containing anisotropic hydrogel into various shapes is demonstrated and a four-arm soft gripper is devised that can perform distinct photomechanical functions such as grasping, lifting/lowering down and releasing an object upon sequential NIR light exposure.

TL;DR: A general strategy to integrate electrically conductive liquid metals (LMs) and shape-morphing liquid crystal networks (LCNs) towards multifunctional and programmable soft robotics is reported, which could open up a new technological arena for advanced multifunctionsal soft materials.

TL;DR: This review provides a state-of-the-art review on recent advances of light-driven bimorph soft actuators with the focus on bilayer strategy, i.e., an integration between photoactive and passive layer within one material system.

TL;DR: In this paper , a bioinspired phototropic MXene-reinforced soft tubular actuator is reported that exhibits omnidirectional self-orienting ability and is capable of quickly sensing, continuously tracking, and adaptively interacting with incident light in all zenithal and azimuthal angles of 3D space.

TL;DR: In this paper , a water strider-inspired water-walking soft robot is demonstrated through combining superhydrophobic floating surface with hierarchical nanostructures and light-driven soft-actuation legs that are fabricated through in situ embedding of judiciously designed polymerizable miniaturized gold nanorods (MiniGNR nanomonomer) in liquid crystal network-based soft actuators.