AIMC Topic: Biomimetic Materials

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Activating Silent Synapses in Sulfurized Indium Selenide for Neuromorphic Computing.

ACS applied materials & interfaces
The transformation from silent to functional synapses is accompanied by the evolutionary process of human brain development and is essential to hardware implementation of the evolutionary artificial neural network but remains a challenge for mimickin...

Bubble casting soft robotics.

Nature
Inspired by living organisms, soft robots are developed from intrinsically compliant materials, enabling continuous motions that mimic animal and vegetal movement. In soft robots, the canonical hinges and bolts are replaced by elastomers assembled in...

Hierarchically Structured and Scalable Artificial Muscles for Smart Textiles.

ACS applied materials & interfaces
Fiber-based artificial muscles with excellent actuation performance are gaining great attention as soft materials for flexible actuators; however, current advances in fiber-based artificial muscles generally suffer from high cost, harsh stimulation r...

3D printed biomimetic cochleae and machine learning co-modelling provides clinical informatics for cochlear implant patients.

Nature communications
Cochlear implants restore hearing in patients with severe to profound deafness by delivering electrical stimuli inside the cochlea. Understanding stimulus current spread, and how it correlates to patient-dependent factors, is hampered by the poor acc...

Light-Fueled Polymer Film Capable of Directional Crawling, Friction-Controlled Climbing, and Self-Sustained Motion on a Human Hair.

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Recent efforts in stimuli-responsive soft materials have enabled wirelessly controlled actuation with increasing degrees of freedom, yielding miniature robots capable of various locomotion in open environments such as on a plane or inside fluids. How...

Optically Modulated HfS-Based Synapses for Artificial Vision Systems.

ACS applied materials & interfaces
The simulation of human brain neurons by synaptic devices could be an effective strategy to break through the notorious "von Neumann Bottleneck" and "Memory Wall". Herein, opto-electronic synapses based on layered hafnium disulfide (HfS) transistors ...

Smart Bioinspired Actuators: Crawling, Linear, and Bending Motions through a Multilayer Design.

ACS applied materials & interfaces
To fulfill the insatiable demand for wearable technologies, ionic electroactive polymer actuators have been entrenched as promising candidates that can convert low-input-voltage energy into high mechanical throughput. However, a ubiquitous trilayer d...

A Bioinspired Stretchable Sensory-Neuromorphic System.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Conventional stretchable electronics that adopt a wavy design, a neutral mechanical plane, and conformal contact between abiotic and biotic interfaces have exhibited diverse skin-interfaced applications. Despite such remarkable progress, the evolutio...

A Liquid Metal Artificial Muscle.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Artificial muscles possess a vast potential in accelerating the development of robotics, exoskeletons, and prosthetics. Although a variety of emerging actuator technologies are reported, they suffer from several issues, such as high driving voltages,...

The rise of intelligent matter.

Nature
Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating the development of unconventional computing paradigms inspired by the abilities and energy efficiency of the brain. The human brain excels especially in computationally intensive cognitive tasks, such as p...