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Reversible Curvature Reversal of Monolithic Liquid Crystal Elastomer Film and Its Smart Valve Application.

Macromolecular rapid communications Aug 30, 2021
Beyond a traditional stimuli-responsive soft actuator that shows a single motion by a stimulus, multidirectional actuation reversal with a single stimulus is highly required in applications such as shape morphing sensors and soft robotics. Liquid cry...
Elastomers Liquid Crystals Temperature Robotics
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Tunable Soft Lens of Large Focal Length Change.

Soft robotics Aug 12, 2021
Tunable lens technology inspired by the human eye has opened a new paradigm of smart optical devices for a variety of applications due to unique characteristics such as lightweight, low cost, and facile fabrication over conventional lens assemblies. ...
Humans Robotics Elastomers Optical Devices Lens, Crystalline Lenses
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A Soft Resistive Sensor with a Semicircular Cross-Sectional Channel for Soft Cardiac Catheter Ablation.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Jun 16, 2021
The field of soft robotics has attracted the interest of the medical community due to the ability of soft elastic materials to traverse the abnormal environment of the human body. However, sensing in soft robotics has been challenging due to the sens...
Humans Pressure Cardiac Catheters Elastomers Robotics Elasticity
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Body Temperature-Triggered Mechanical Instabilities for High-Speed Soft Robots.

Soft robotics Jan 27, 2021
Nature offers bionic inspirations for elegant applications of mechanical principles such as the concept of snap buckling, which occurs in several plants. Exploiting mechanical instabilities is the key to fast movement here. We use the snap-through an...
Movement Phase Transition Body Temperature Humans Robotics Elastomers
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An Untethered Soft Robot Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomers.

Soft robotics Jan 8, 2021
An untethered, soft robot using liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) actuators, onboard power, and wireless Bluetooth control was developed. LCE actuators were thermally triggered using Joule heating and demonstrated an ∼5 N force pull capacity per LCE. A ...
Liquid Crystals Robotics Elastomers
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An Electrically Actuated Soft Artificial Muscle Based on a High-Performance Flexible Electrothermal Film and Liquid-Crystal Elastomer.

ACS applied materials & interfaces Dec 7, 2020
Liquid-crystal elastomer (LCE)-based soft robots and devices via an electrothermal effect under a low driving voltage have attracted a great deal of attention for their ability on generating larger stress, reversible deformation, and versatile actuat...
Liquid Crystals Electricity Nanowires Elastomers Robotics Silver Equipment Design Nanotubes, Carbon
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Electrically Activated Soft Robots: Speed Up by Rolling.

Soft robotics Nov 11, 2020
Soft robots show excellent body compliance, adaptability, and mobility when coping with unstructured environments and human-robot interactions. However, the moving speed for soft locomotion robots is far from that of their rigid partners. Rolling loc...
Humans Biomimetic Materials Elastomers Robotics Locomotion Equipment Design
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Performance Enhancement of Soft Nanotextured Thermopneumatic Actuator by Incorporating Silver Nanowires into Elastomer Body.

Soft robotics Oct 29, 2020
To improve performance of thermopneumatic soft actuators, which have recently been developed for various industrial applications, we embedded different nanoscale materials into their elastomer bodies. This yields a significant enhancement in the actu...
Nanowires Silver Robotics Elastomers
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Beyond Human Hand: Shape-Adaptive and Reversible Magnetorheological Elastomer-Based Robot Gripper Skin.

ACS applied materials & interfaces Sep 15, 2020
Developing a simple and universal solution for gripping fragile, multiscaled, and arbitrary-shaped objects using a robot gripper is challenging. Herein, we propose a universal, shape-adaptive/-retaining and reversible, hardness-variable gripper skin ...
Robotics Equipment Design Particle Size Surface Properties Humans Skin Magnetic Fields Hand Strength Elastomers
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Plasma-Induced Polymerizations: A New Synthetic Entry in Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators.

Macromolecular rapid communications Aug 18, 2020
The research on soft actuators including liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) becomes more and more appealing at a time when the expansion of artificial systems is blooming. Among the various LCE actuators, the bending deformation is often in the origin ...
Polymerization Elastomers Robotics Liquid Crystals Magnetic Fields
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