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Modeling Based on a Two-Step Parameter Identification Strategy for Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuator Considering Dynamic Phase Transition Process.

IEEE transactions on cybernetics Jun 15, 2023
Liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) is a promising candidate for actuation in light-driven soft robot applications. Due to the fact that LCE has complex hysteretic nonlinearities, which are highly dependent on the environment, modeling of actuators made o...
Algorithms Elastomers Robotics Physical Examination Liquid Crystals
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Structure-induced Intelligence of Liquid Crystal Elastomers.

Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) Jun 5, 2023
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are active soft matter-based materials with strong stimulus responsiveness and reversible, large-shape morphing capabilities. LCEs have demonstrated broad and growing applications in soft robotics, wearable devices, a...
Wearable Electronic Devices Robotics Elastomers Intelligence Liquid Crystals
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A Highly Robust Amphibious Soft Robot with Imperceptibility Based on a Water-Stable and Self-Healing Ionic Conductor.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) May 28, 2023
Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are widely exploited for actuating soft machines and granting soft robots with capability to operate in both underwater and on-land environments is important to make them adapt to more complex situations. Here, a...
Robotics Electrodes Electric Conductivity Elastomers
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Ultra-stretchable and biodegradable elastomers for soft, transient electronics.

Nature communications Apr 20, 2023
As rubber-like elastomers have led to scientific breakthroughs in soft, stretchable characteristics-based wearable, implantable electronic devices or relevant research fields, developments of degradable elastomers with comparable mechanical propertie...
Wearable Electronic Devices Electronics Elastomers Prostheses and Implants Robotics
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Tough, Recyclable, and Degradable Elastomers for Potential Biomedical Applications.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Mar 31, 2023
Elastomers have many industrial, medical and commercial applications, however, their huge demand raises an important question of how to dispose of the out-of-service elastomers. Ideal elastomers that are concurrently tough, recyclable, and degradable...
Elastomers Polyurethanes Animals Robotics Mice
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Bioinspired Liquid Crystalline Spinning Enables Scalable Fabrication of High-Performing Fibrous Artificial Muscles.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) Mar 6, 2023
Leveraging liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) to realize scalable fabrication of high-performing fibrous artificial muscles is of particular interest because these active soft materials can provide large, reversible, programmable deformations upon envi...
Liquid Crystals Silk Muscle Fibers, Skeletal Elastomers Robotics
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Water-Immiscible Coacervate as a Liquid Magnetic Robot for Intravascular Navigation.

Journal of the American Chemical Society Feb 2, 2023
Developing magnetic ultrasoft robots to navigate through extraordinarily narrow and confined spaces like capillaries in vivo requires synthesizing materials with excessive deformability, responsive actuation, and rapid adaptability, which are difficu...
Robotics Water Physical Phenomena Equipment Design Magnetic Phenomena Elastomers
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Elastomer-Embedded Multiplexed Optical Fiber Sensor System for Multiplane Shape Reconstruction.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Jan 15, 2023
This paper presents the development and application of a multiplexed intensity variation-based sensor system for multiplane shape reconstruction. The sensor is based on a polymer optical fiber (POF) with sequential lateral sections coupled with a fle...
Elastomers Robotics Optical Fibers Dimethylpolysiloxanes Polymers
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Bioinspired shape shifting of liquid-infused ribbed sheets.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Dec 29, 2022
The recent emergence of stimuli-responsive, shape-shifting materials offers promising applications in fields as different as soft robotics, aeronautics, or biomedical engineering. Targeted shapes or movements are achieved from the advantageous coupli...
Hydrogels Elastomers Mechanical Phenomena Robotics Stimuli Responsive Polymers Biomedical Engineering
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Bio-Inspired Transparent Soft Jellyfish Robot.

Soft robotics Dec 27, 2022
Jellyfish are among the widely distributed nature creatures that can effectively control the fluidic flow around their transparent soft body, thus achieving movements in the water and camouflage in the surrounding environments. Till now, it remains a...
Robotics Silver Animals Scyphozoa Nanowires Elastomers
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