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4D Printing of Polyethylene Glycol‐Grafted Carbon Nanotube‐Reinforced Polyvinyl Chloride–Polycaprolactone Composites for Enhanced Shape Recovery and Thermomechanical Performance

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study introduces polyethylene glycol‐functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to enhance dispersion, interfacial bonding, and 4D printability in polyvinyl chloride‐PCL nanocomposites. The optimized 4D composite (0.5 wt% CNT) achieves a 25% increase in tensile strength, 95.78% shape fixity, and 5‐s recovery time.
Davood Rahmatabadi, Mohammad Amin Yousefi, Shahrooz Shamsolhodaei, Majid Baniassadi, Karen Abrinia, Mahdi Bodaghi, Mostafa Baghani   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strong strain dependence of friction in graphene kirigami allows engineering a negative coefficient of friction. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Juel MM, Malthe-Sørenssen A, Sveinsson HA.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Harnessing Discrete Differential Geometry: A Virtual Playground for the Bilayer Soft Robots

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A discrete differential geometry‐based framework is developed to model the mechanics of bilayer structures with asymmetric geometry and material properties. The simulations capture dynamic bending and contact interactions in soft robotic grasping, crawling, jumping, and swimming, demonstrating the framework's versatility for programmable shape morphing
Jiahao Li, Dezhong Tong, Zhuonan Hao, Yinbo Zhu, Hengan Wu, Mingchao Liu, Weicheng Huang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Axial collapse behavior of stainless steel circular tubes with thin walls in diamond mode. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Zhou X, Rong W, Liu J, Wu B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Symmetry Breaking Metamaterial Sleeve Actuators

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Metamaterial sleeves are designed to impart to a soft inflatable structure, nonlinear characteristics within the pressure–volume domain. By tuning the unit cells of the metamaterial sleeve, symmetry breaking is achieved during the inflation–deflation cycle.
Imran Qayyum Mundial, Alexis Van Merris, Edoardo Milana, Benjamin Gorissen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characteristics of a new UT-type prefabricated joint for rectangular steel tubes under combined axial-moment loading. [PDF]

PLoS One
Sun M, He L, Yang Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Fold‐Cut Structures with Tunable Stiffness for Multimorphing Soft Robots

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This work presents a highly deformable robotic structure that integrates origami and kirigami principles, enabling both on‐demand stiffness tuning and multimorphing. The proposed ori‐kirigami structure offers unprecedented versatility in soft robotics.
Ganguk Lee, Ho‐Young Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic Stability Enhancement of Columns Through Material Distribution Optimization Strategies. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Szmidla J, Jurczyńska A, Ulewicz R.
europepmc   +1 more source

McKibben Artificial Muscle Embedded with Stretchable Textile Sensor

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A thin McKibben artificial muscle with an embedded resistive stretchable textile sensor (TES‐MAM), enabling real‐time displacement measurement without external sensors, is developed. TES‐MAM maintains a compact 4.5 mm diameter even with additional sensing components, preserves contraction performance, and provides stable resistance responses under ...
Sota Suzuki, Shoma Tanaka, Hiroyuki Nabae, Shingo Maeda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling. [PDF]

Nature
Fang X, Yu D, Wen J, Dai Y, Begley MR, Gao H, Gumbsch P.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source