Magnetically responsive soft materials are soft composites where magnetic fillers are embedded into soft polymeric matrices. These active materials have attracted extensive research and industrial interest due to their ability to realize fast and programmable shape changes through remote and untethered control under the application of magnetic fields. They would have many high-impact potential applications in soft robotics/devices, metamaterials, and biomedical devices. With a broad range of functional magnetic fillers, polymeric matrices, and advanced fabrication techniques, the material properties can be programmed for integrated functions, including programmable shape morphing, dynamic shape deformation-based locomotion, object manipulation and assembly, remote heat generation, as well as reconfigurable electronics. In this review, an overview of state-of-the-art developments and future perspectives in the multifunctional magnetically responsive soft materials is presented.

磁响应软材料是软复合材料，其中磁性填料嵌入软聚合物基体中。这些活性材料由于能够在磁场的应用下通过远程和不受限制的控制来实现快速和可编程的形状变化，因此引起了广泛的研究和工业兴趣。它们将在软机器人/设备、超材料和生物医学设备中具有许多高影响力的潜在应用。凭借广泛的功能性磁性填料、聚合物基质和先进的制造技术，可以对材料特性进行编程以实现集成功能，包括可编程形状变形、基于动态形状变形的运动、物体操纵和组装、远程发热等作为可重构电子设备。在这篇综述中，概述了多功能磁响应软材料的最新发展和未来前景。