Materials horizons
Nov 28, 2022
Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are electrically driven soft actuators that generate fast and reversible deformations, enabling lightweight actuation of many novel soft robots and haptic devices. However, the high-voltage operation of DEAs comb...
Materials horizons
Oct 3, 2022
Knowledge about the charge dynamics in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) is a critical clue to optimize device architecture for enhancing the power efficiency and driving voltage characteristics in addition to the external quantum efficiency. In ...
Materials horizons
May 10, 2022
Small-scale soft grippers are adaptive and deformable, and can be utilized for confined environments (, the human body). Small-scale soft grippers require logic-based computation to achieve intelligent control and perform logical analysis of the surr...
Materials horizons
Mar 7, 2022
Lattice structures are typically made up of a crisscross pattern of beam elements, allowing engineers to distribute material in a more structurally effective way. However, a main challenge in the design of lattice structures is a trade-off between th...
Materials horizons
Mar 7, 2022
Photoresponsive soft actuators with the unique merits of flexibility, contactless operation, and remote control have huge potential in technological applications of bionic robotics and biomedical devices. Herein, a facile strategy was proposed to pre...
Materials horizons
Aug 31, 2021
Artificial muscle fibers as a promising biomimetic actuator are needed for such applications as smart soft robots, muscle function restoration, and physical augmentation. Currently developed artificial muscle fibers have shown attractive performance ...
Materials horizons
Aug 31, 2021
Sophisticated soft matter engineering has been endorsed as an emerging paradigm for developing untethered soft robots with built-in electronic functions and biomimetic adaptation capacities. However, the integration of flexible electronic components ...
Materials horizons
Jun 3, 2021
Soft robots provide compliant object-machine interactions, but they exhibit insufficient material stability, which restricts them from working in harsh environments. Herein, we developed a class of soft robotic skins based on two-dimensional material...
Materials horizons
May 26, 2021
Autonomous experimentation driven by artificial intelligence (AI) provides an exciting opportunity to revolutionize inorganic materials discovery and development. Herein, we review recent progress in the design of self-driving laboratories, including...
Materials horizons
May 5, 2021
With the arrival of the internet of things and the rise of wearable computing, electronics are playing an increasingly important role in our everyday lives. Until recently, however, the rigid angular nature of traditional electronics has prevented th...