Ebook: Mechanically responsive materials for soft robotics

Mechanically Responsive Crystals. Photomechanical Behavior of Photochromic Diarylethene Crystals / Seiya Kobatake, Daichi Kitagawa -- Photomechanical Crystals Made from Anthracene Derivatives / Fei Tong, Christopher J Bardeen, Rabih O Al-Kaysi -- Mechanically Responsive Crystals by Light and Heat / Hideko Koshima, Takuya Taniguchi, Toru Asahi -- Crawling Motion of Crystals on Solid Surfaces by Photo-induced Reversible Crystal-to-Melt Phase Transition / Yasuo Norikane, Koichiro Saito -- Bending, Jumping, and Self-Healing Crystals / Pance Naumov, Stanislav Chizhik, Patrick Commins, Elena Boldyreva -- Shape Memory Molecular Crystals / Satoshi Takamizawa -- Mechanically Responsive Polymers and Composites. Mechanical Polymeric Materials Based on Cyclodextrins as Artificial Muscles / Akira Harada, Yoshinori Takashima, Akihito Hashidzume, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi -- Cross-Linked Liquid-Crystalline Polymers as Photomobile Materials / Toru Ube, Tomiki Ikeda -- Photomechanical Liquid Crystal Polymers and Bioinspired Soft Actuators / Chongyu Zhu, Lang Qin, Yao Lu, Jiahao Sun, Yanlei Yu -- Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials with Photomechanical Functions / Sufang Guo, Atsushi Shimojima -- Multi-responsive Polymer Actuators by Thermo-reversible Chemistry / Antoniya Toncheva, Loic Blanc, Pierre Lambert, Philippe Dubois, Jean-Marie Raquez -- Mechanochromic Polymers as Stress-sensing Soft Materials / Daisuke Aoki, Hideyuki Otsuka -- Application of Mechanically Responsive Materials to Soft Robots. Soft Microrobots Based on Photoresponsive Materials / Stefano Palagi -- 4D Printing: An Enabling Technology for Soft Robotics / Carlos Sanchez-Somolinos -- Self-growing Adaptable Soft Robots / Barbara Mazzolai, Alessio Mondini, Emanuela Del Dottore, Ali Sadeghi -- Biohybrid Robot Powered by Muscle Tissues / Yuya Morimoto, Shoji Takeuchi.