4d, e). The tensile and compressive strengths of different hydrogels also exhibited the same trend as their fracture strain and modulus, which can be attributed to the self-assembled lipids acting as dynamic crosslinks to a certain extent (Supplementary Fig. 22). The UA layer did not ...
Developing untethered millirobots that can adapt to harsh environments with high locomotion efficiency is of interest for emerging applications in various industrial and biomedical settings. Despite recent success in exploiting soft materials to impart s
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