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Ionogel Actuators: A Review

open access: yesSmartBot, EarlyView.
Ionogels dynamically and functionally couple ionic liquids with polymer networks, enabling multiscale programmable deformation and motion under electrical, magnetic, optical, thermal, humidity, and chemical stimuli. This article systematically elucidates the constituent components, structural design, and multiscale actuation mechanisms of ionogel ...
Dezhou Cao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

How to Visually Represent the Colour Theory of Thermochromic Inks

open access: yesEKSIG 2015: Tangible Means — Experiential Knowledge Through Materials, 2015
Colour theories have been established in order to allow artists and designers to understand the relationship between colours, and to determine how a chosen colour will react or interact with another. Smart colours - such as leuco dye-based thermochromic inks - have entered into the textile and fashion design world, bringing with them new challenges ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Fabrication Technologies for Soft, Multimaterial Optical Fibers for In Vivo Diagnostics and Phototherapy, With a Focus on Extrusion Printing

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, Volume 11, Issue 9, 6 May 2026.
Soft multimaterial optical fibers integrate multiple functionalities—such as waveguiding, side emission, sensing, drug delivery or actuation—into a single filament for wearable, implantable, and tissue‐integrated devices for diagnostics and phototherapy.
Zahra Kafrashian   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bioinspired stimuli-responsive color-changing systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Stimuli-responsive colors are a unique characteristic of certain animals, evolved as either a method to hide from enemies and prey or to communicate their presence to rivals or mates.
Isapour, Golnaz, Lattuada, Marco
core   +1 more source

MXene‐Based Self‐Powered Flexible Sensors: Advances in Fabrication, Sensing Mechanisms, and Density Functional Theory‐Driven Performance Optimization

open access: yesAdvanced Energy and Sustainability Research, Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2026.
MXene‐based self‐powered textile sensors are presented as an emerging platform for integrated energy harvesting and multifunctional sensing in wearable electronics. This review systematically discusses MXene synthesis, DFT‐driven insights into properties, nanogenerator‐based device architectures, and scalable textile integration strategies, while ...
Md. Mahfuzur Rahman   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A graphene-based electro-thermochromic textile display [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Electronic textiles (e textiles) are rapidly emerging as key enablers for wearable electronics. Graphene and 2D materials have played a major role in enabling truly wearable e-textiles.
Ji, X   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Sustainable Rewritable Paper Enabled by Colored Aqueous Inks for Writing, Painting, and Printing Applications

open access: yesEcoMat, Volume 8, Issue 4, April 2026.
A sustainable rewritable paper platform is developed using biopolymer‐based aqueous colored inks and organic acid–treated substrates. Localized protonation induces in situ fibrous hydrogel network formation that anchors dyes for stable handwriting, painting, and inkjet printing.
Damini Jagankar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

JENTIL: responsive clothing that promotes an ‘holistic approach to fashion as a new vehicle to treat psychological conditions’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper explores an ongoing interdisciplinary research project at the cutting edge of sensory, aroma and medical work, which seeks to change the experience of fragrance to a more intimate communication of identity, by employing emerging technologies ...
Tillotson, Jenny
core  

Ultralight Conductive MXene Aerogels: From Material Design to Energy, Environment, and Electronic Applications

open access: yesSmall Science, Volume 6, Issue 4, April 2026.
MXene aerogels combine the intrinsic conductivity and surface chemistry of MXenes with ultralight, highly porous 3D architectures, enabling efficient charge/heat transport and multifunctional performance. By tailoring pore structure, orientation, surface functional groups, and hybrid compositions (with polymers, carbons, metals, and MOFs), MXene ...
Narasimharao Kitchamsetti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Active materials for adaptive architectural envelopes based on plant adaptation principles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper, the authors present research into adaptive architectural envelopes that adapt to environmental changes using active materials, as a result of application of biomimetic principles from plants to architecture.
Croxford, BJF   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

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