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Xueling Li1,2, Yin Cheng1, Yi Zhou3

  • 1The State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, 200050, China.

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|November 9, 2024
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color‐tuningdynamic controlshape‐shiftingsoft robotssynergistic coupling

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