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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanical and electrical properties of aligned carbon nanotube/carbon matrix composites

open access: yes, 2014
To synthesize carbon nanotube/carbon matrix (CNT/C) composites rivaling or exceeding the mechanical and electrical properties of current carbon fiber/carbon matrix composites, it is essential to align carbon nanotubes in the composite.
Wang, X   +4 more
core  

Functional Fibers in Soft Robotics: Advances in Material, Structural, and Systemic Tactics

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Fiber‐form robotic systems offer a scalable pathway toward embodied intelligence in soft robotics. This review surveys functional fibers as material, structural, and systemic elements, highlighting advances in responsive materials, architectural programing, and fabrication strategies.
Joonhee Won   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Carbon nanotube fibers as high-fidelity sensors for carbon nanotube/polymer nanocomposites. [PDF]

open access: yesiScience
Shadrov SP   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Quantum Mechanical Calculations of Charged Carbon Nanotube Systems

open access: yes, 2004
Understanding the fundamental processes for carbon nanotube interactions is an important fundamental challenge. Using a variety of techniques we have a methodology for making quantum mechanical calculations of appreciably large and complex systems.
Kephart, Jeremy Dale
core  

3D Printing of Self‐Healing Polymers by Material Extrusion: A Process‐Centric Review of Setups, Parameters, and Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review highlights recent advances in material extrusion 3D printing of self‐healing polymers, focusing on the interplay between material chemistry, rheology, hardware customization, and process optimization. Filament‐ and ink‐based extrusion strategies, multimaterial architectures, and postprocessing approaches are discussed for applications in ...
Antonio Pavone   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flexible Sensors for Robotics Tactile Perception: A Review

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Flexible tactile sensing for robotics is reviewed through four interconnected dimensions. Physical mechanisms include piezoresistive, capacitive, piezoelectric, triboelectric, iontronic, and optical sensing. Structural design includes bioinspired, defect‐based, and MEMS‐based tactile systems.
Yu Song, Ying Chen, Yihao Chen, Xue Feng
wiley   +1 more source

Force–Displacement Characterization of PNIPAM Microactuators

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A method to experimentally establish a force–displacement diagram of poly(N‐isopropyl acrylamide) (PNIPAM) microactuators, printed by 2PP, is presented herein. PNIPAM is a hydrogel whose volume and stiffness change with temperature due to the absorption or release of water.
Manon Cassignol   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Zagreb indices of hyper carbon nanotube graphs. [PDF]

open access: yesDiscov Nano
Shabbir A   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Soft, Flexible Implant for Wireless Photothermal–Pyroelectric Neurostimulation

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
A replication strategy is used to enlarge the exposed surface area of barium titanate within flexible films with embedded carbon nanotubes, enabling efficient photothermal‐pyroelectric stimulation. Polar crystalline nanosheets show superior performance in guiding neural progenitor cells toward neuronal differentiation.
Jiang Wu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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