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  • Materials that mimic silk are desirable for their combination of strength and toughness, but replicating these properties in artificial materials is challenging. Here, the authors report the development of ionogel fibres, with responsive contractile behaviour, by a phase separation strategy.

    • Zhao Xu
    • Te Xu
    • Huai-Ping Cong
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 17, P: 1-13

  • Natural materials with highly oriented and heterogeneous structures often have favorable materials properties, but such structures are challenging to replicate in artificial materials. Here, the authors report the development of hierarchically aligned heterogeneous hydrogels with toughness and strength.

    • Zhao Xu
    • Hong Chen
    • Shu-Hong Yu
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-14

  • Biomimetic assembly of nanosheets into nacre-like structures and films is of interest for a range of applications; the abundance of mica makes it a good candidate. Here, the authors report on the large-scale exfoliation of ground mica into nanosheets and the assembly into polymeric mica films.

    • Xiao-Feng Pan
    • Huai-Ling Gao
    • Shu-Hong Yu
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 9, P: 1-8

  • Developing highly elastic and conductive hydrogels is challenging, especially for use in harsh environments including organic solvents and extreme temperatures. Now, a self-assembly and in situ polymerization method is reported for the fabrication of highly compressible and environmentally adaptive conductive hydrogels with concrete-type constituents and high-tortuosity interconnected cellular architectures.

    • Yangyu Wang
    • Haili Qin
    • Shu-Hong Yu
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Synthesis
    Volume: 1, P: 975-986

  • Self-healing property is important for supercapacitors when powering the electronics, but designing devices that possess a universal healing mechanism remains challenging. Here, the authors achieve an optically, electrically, and magnetically-responsive self-healing device with integrated configuration.

    • Haili Qin
    • Ping Liu
    • Shu-Hong Yu
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-11

  • The development of artificial muscle-like actuators is often hampered by the lack of general fabrication routes towards anisotropic responsive materials. Here, the authors fabricate anisotropic hydrogels by an in-situ polymerization strategy of a lamellar network, crosslinked by metal nanostructure assemblies.

    • Haili Qin
    • Tan Zhang
    • Shu-Hong Yu
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-11

  • Stretchable conductors are important for further developments in the electronics industry, but improving the deformability when maintaining the high-level conductivity is still challenging. Here the authors demonstrate a ternary self-healing silver nanowire/polymer network as high-performance stretchable conductor.

    • Pin Song
    • Haili Qin
    • Shu-Hong Yu
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 9, P: 1-9