journal article·2025-03

Tunable MXene/WO3 Fabry−Pérot Microcavity Architecture for Bioinspired Soft Electrochromic Actuators with Vivid Colors

Juan Wang, Xiaodan Guo, Chunjing Li, Hang Zhou, Yin Yan, Feng Zhu, Jinhui Wang, Guofa Cai, Oliver G. Schmidt

Advanced Functional Materials· Volume 35· Issue 10
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Abstract

Abstract Inspired by stimuli‐responsive creatures in nature, developing devices with synergistic color change and deformation will be of great value for realizing the adaptive variants. Yet, integrating adaptive color variation and deformation into a single device remains elusive. Herein, an intriguing electrochromic actuator based on MXene/WO3 bilayer film is developed with Fabry−Pérot (F–P) microcavity, which successfully integrates both functions of reversible deformation and vivid color variations into the same device. Upon applying a small electric field, the ion intercalation/de‐intercalation can synchronously alter the stress distribution and optical absorption of MXene/WO3, resulting in the dual response of electrochromic phenomenon and ultra‐fast deformation with a maximum angle of 95° within 10 s. Moreover, the F–P microcavity architecture with the physical light interaction additionally endows the bilayer film with a bright color gamut and high color tunability (yellow–green, purple, pink, blue, etc.). Furthermore, an asymmetric soft actuator based on MXene/WO3 bilayer film is assembled, which displays robust grasping ability and excellent cycling stability up to 1000 cycles. These findings may open new opportunities for somatosensory soft robots and next‐generation intelligent robots.
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OpenAlex topics: Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials · Advanced Materials and Mechanics · Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications

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Affiliations

Key Laboratory for Special Functional Materials of Ministry of Education National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center for High‐efficiency Display and Lighting Technology and School of Nanoscience and Materials Engineering Henan University Kaifeng 475004 China

State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun 130022 China

Research Center for Materials Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes (MAIN) Chemnitz University of Technology 09126 Chemnitz Germany

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China · Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province · China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

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