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Polymer-Driven and Hybrid Actuation Fabrics: Integrating Responsive Polymeric Materials and Hierarchical Textile Architectures. [PDF]

Polymers (Basel)
He W, Yu R, Fei B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Rational Tuning of Hygroscopic Oscillation of Stacked Nanoflake Assemblies for Continuous Ambient Energy Harvesting

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Stacked nanoflake assembly (SNA) membranes can oscillate autonomously, offering opportunities for soft actuation and energy harvesting. This work uncovers the physical mechanism behind the sustained oscillation of SNA membranes in gradient humidity and identifies three governing dimensionless parameters, enabling rational design for optimizing SNA ...
Zijing Zhang, Jimin Fu, Gesa Zhang, Zhihua Liang, Boxun Zhang, Haimin Yao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhanced Actuation Stability of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators With Diels-Alder Dynamic Bonds. [PDF]

Small
Stamatis K, Lee YJ, Dana A, Kalairaj MS, Crusco CA, Gibson JA, George SM, Sukhishvili SA, Ware TH.   +8 more
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Can Elastomers Combine Stiffness, Toughness and Fatigue Resistance?

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review studies how the molecular and macroscopic architecture of elastomers influence their mechanical properties including: stiffness, stretchability, toughness, fatigue resistance, and damping behavior. By linking the structure to performance, it proposes design principles for advanced elastomeric systems that combine mechanical properties ...
Eva Baur, Esther Amstad
wiley   +1 more source

Geometry-Encoded Actuation as a Structural Interaction Layer in Origami Robots. [PDF]

Adv Sci (Weinh)
Zhou J, Li Y, Huang J, Zhang I, Liu H, Liang B, Zhang Y, Xiao X, He Q.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Autonomous Folding of Soft Matter From Living Polymers

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Origami structures are endowed with “living” polymer creases that grow, remodel, and stiffen in response to nutrient solutions. This post‐fabrication growth enables autonomous folding, iterative regrowth, and mechanical tuning involving origami assemblies, such as cranes, Miura‐ori tessellations, rigid and non‐rigid square‐twist patterns, establishing ...
Jiahe Huang, Tuo Zhao, Shixi Zang, Deep Malu, Huajian Ji, Glaucio H. Paulino, Yuhang Hu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bioinspired Adaptive Surfaces for Intelligent Liquid Manipulation: Progressing From Passive and Active to Hybrid Strategies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines passive, active, and hybrid liquid manipulation strategies, highlighting hybrid approaches as an emerging route to reconcile energy efficiency with adaptive control. By actively reconstructing passive surfaces to store programmable interfacial energy, hybrid systems enable flexible yet low‐power liquid transport, with perspectives ...
Jiaqi Miao, Yiyuan Zhang, Liqiu Wang, Alan C. H. Tsang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interfacial Modification of Macro Fiber Composites for Active Low-Frequency Vibration Suppression. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Zhou J, Li Z, Zhou J, Song R, Wu S, Zhu Y, He J.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Nano‐Architected Metallic Metamaterial With Enhanced Fatigue Resistance via Dislocation Starvation

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Nanoscale Ni single crystals exhibit remarkable fatigue resistance over an order of magnitude higher than that of bulk single crystals through dislocation starvation. By translating this mechanism into geometric nano‐architecture, nano‐architected Ni single‐crystal metamaterials achieve about twice the fatigue resistance of the bulk, despite their ...
Kota Sugisaka, Yamato Ishizaka, Hiroki Ikeda, Shigeo Arai, Masataka Abe, Yoshitaka Umeno, Hiroyuki Shima, Takashi Sumigawa   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vibration-induced dynamic structural superlubricity on MoS₂/Au(111) under ultrahigh vacuum. [PDF]

Beilstein J Nanotechnol
Huang S, Song Y, Hinaut A, Navarro-Marín G, Cammarata A, Meyer E, Glatzel T.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source