Our recent work was recently published on Matter with title “Synergistic Photoactuation of Bilayered Spiropyran Hydrogels for Predictable Origami-like Shape Change”. Check details on Matter website.
.@ChuangLi15 & @YeguangXue construct bilayer hydrogels with light-driven locomotion in #MatterIssue22! Collab research from @SamuelStupp, Yonggang Huang, & John Rogers @NorthwesternU @CBES_EFRC @SQInstitute @IINanoNU @NorthwesternEng
— Matter_CP (@Matter_CP) May 4, 2021
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Highlights
- Bilayer hydrogels exhibit opposite volumetric change in response to light exposure
- Coupling expanding and contracting layers generates synergistic bending with light
- Constructs exhibit light-driven locomotion and origami-like 3D shape changes
- Observed shape changes in designed constructs predicted by analytical modeling
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