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PEDOT:PSS-MWCNT Nanocomposite Wire for Routing in Energy Harvesting Devices. [PDF]

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Shafagh SH, Deen I, Mamsapuram Panneerselvam D, Packirisamy M.   +3 more
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Electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator

Science Robotics, 2021
An electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator can generate large actuation with high power density. Fibers capable of generating axial contraction are commonly seen in nature and engineering applications.
Qiguang He, Zhijian Wang, Yang Wang, Zijun Wang, C. Li, Raja Annapooranan, Jian Zeng, Renkun Chen, S. Cai   +8 more
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A Moisture‐Driven Actuator Based on Polydopamine‐Modified MXene/Bacterial Cellulose Nanofiber Composite Film

Advanced Functional Materials, 2021
As a new 2D material, MXene (Ti3C2Tx) shows great potential as a smart multifunctional humidity‐responsive actuator due to its high hydrophilicity and conductivity but suffers from ambient oxidation and mechanical brittleness.
Luyu Yang, J. Cui, Lei Zhang, Xuran Xu, Xiao Chen, Dongping Sun   +5 more
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Materials for Smart Soft Actuator Systems.

Chemical Reviews, 2021
In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living systems.
I. Apsite, S. Salehi, L. Ionov
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Somatosensory actuator based on stretchable conductive photothermally responsive hydrogel

Science Robotics, 2021
Sensing and actuation integrate in a monolithic somatosensitive molecularly engineered actuatable material for soft robotics. Mimicking biological neuromuscular systems’ sensory motion requires the unification of sensing and actuation in a singular ...
Yusen Zhao, Chiao-Yueh Lo, Lecheng Ruan, Chen-Huan Pi, Cheolgyu Kim, Yousif Alsaid, Imri Frenkel, Rossana Rico, T. Tsao, Ximin He   +9 more
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Adaptive Fuzzy Finite-Time Control of Nonlinear Systems With Actuator Faults

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2020
This paper addresses the trajectory tracking control problem of a class of nonstrict-feedback nonlinear systems with the actuator faults. The functional relationship in the affine form between the nonlinear functions with whole state and error variables ...
Huanqing Wang, P. X. Liu, Xudong Zhao, Xiaoping Liu   +3 more
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A Dual pH-Responsive Hydrogel Actuator for Lipophilic Drug Delivery.

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2020
As one of the most promising drug delivery carriers, hydrogels have received considerable attention in recent years. Many previous efforts focused on diffusion-controlled release which allows hydrogels to load and release drugs in vitro and/or in vivo ...
Zilong Han, Peng Wang, G. Mao, Tenghao Yin, Danming Zhong, Burebi Yiming, Xiaocheng Hu, Z. Jia, G. Nian, S. Qu, Wei Yang   +10 more
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Smart Actuators for Colonoscope Actuation [PDF]

The International Conference on Electrical Engineering, 2014
In recent years, much has been studied on the colonoscope because it is a very important tool for diagnosing colon cancer, which is the second leading cause of cancer in the developed countries. Colonoscopy is one of the most technically demanding endoscopic examinations in the modern health service.
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Fast‐Response, Stiffness‐Tunable Soft Actuator by Hybrid Multimaterial 3D Printing

Advanced Functional Materials, 2019
Soft robots have the appealing advantages of being highly flexible and adaptive to complex environments. However, the low‐stiffness nature of the constituent materials makes soft robotic systems incompetent in tasks requiring relatively high load ...
Yuan-Fang Zhang, Ningbin Zhang, H. Hingorani, Ningyuan Ding, Dong Wang, Chao Yuan, Biao Zhang, Guoying Gu, Qi Ge   +8 more
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An Autonomous Soft Actuator with Light‐Driven Self‐Sustained Wavelike Oscillation for Phototactic Self‐Locomotion and Power Generation

Advanced Functional Materials, 2020
Mimicking the intelligence of biological organisms in artificial systems to design smart actuators that act autonomously in response to constant environmental stimuli is crucial to the construction of intelligent biomimetic robots and devices, but ...
Lulu Yang, Longfei Chang, Ying Hu, Majing Huang, Qixiao Ji, P. Lu, Jiaqin Liu, Wei Chen, Yucheng Wu   +8 more
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