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ACS applied materials & interfaces
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The design of soft robots capable of navigation underwater has received tremendous research interest due to the robots' versatile applications in marine explorations. Inspired by marine animals such as jellyfish, scientists have developed various sof...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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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...
Soft robotics
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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...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
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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...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
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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...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
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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...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
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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...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
37027814
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...
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
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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...
Nature communications
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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...