Researchers from MIT present an approach to make artificial muscles with nylon that bend, controllably, in any direction.
Peter Gregory
Gecko inspires pick-and-place gripper
Cross-linked networks of liquid crystal polymers (LCNs) are used to regulate adhesion through stimuli responsive back-scrolling and self-peeling, to design a multi-legged gecko gripper.
Slippery Wood
Huizhang Guo, Ingo Burgert and colleagues from ETH Zurich and Empa in Switzerland have developed both superhydrophobic and omniphobic wooden surfaces.
How to pattern a liquid metal
Michael Dickey and colleagues at the North Carolina State University have found a very simple way to pattern liquid metals.
New editors at the Advanced Materials journals
Several journals in the Advanced Materials family have new editors, including Advanced Functional Materials and Advanced Energy Materials.