Smart Materials: Blooming Knit Flowers: Loop‐Linked Soft Morphing Structures for Soft Robotics (Adv. Mater. 13/2017)

In article number 1606580, Min-Woo Han and Sung-Hoon Ahn report soft morphing structures, in which loop-linked structures made from thermally responsive fibers allow the creation of three-dimensional morphologies, including flowers. Based on the design methodology of loop patterning, the proposed morphing structures enable three-dimensional volumetric transformation as well as bending, twisting, and torsional deformation, through functional fiber actuation.