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Earthworm‐Inspired Multi‐Material, Adaptive Strain‐Limiting, Hybrid Actuators for Soft Robots
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 This research presents a new class of versatile multi‐material hybrid actuators (MASH actuators), powered by pneumatics and electrostatic adhesion (EA)‐based adaptive strain‐limiting layers.
Quan Xiong +4 more
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Fabrication Routes for Ionic Conducting Fiber Strain Sensors
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Ionic conducting fiber strain sensors (ICFSs) offer compliant, textile‐integrable sensing. Thus far, the commercialization of ICFSs has been constrained by fiber fabrication routes. This review provides a fabrication‐centric analysis of ICFSs correlating processing strategies with material properties and scalability.
Leo John Kershaw +3 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020 The inherent compliance of soft robots often makes it difficult for them to exert forces on surrounding surfaces or withstand mechanical loading. Controlled stiffness is a solution to empower soft robots with the ability to apply large forces on their ...
Yegor Piskarev +5 more
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Output Force Density Saturation in COMSOL Simulations of Biomimetic Artificial Muscles
Applied Sciences, 2023 Many modern applications, such as undersea drones, exoskeletal suits, all-terrain walker drones, prosthetics, and medical augments, would greatly benefit from artificial muscles.
Michelangelo A. Coltelli +5 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Edible electronics needs integrated logic circuits for computation and control. This work presents a potentially edible printed chitosan‐gated transistor with a design optimized for integration in circuits. Its implementation in integrated logic gates and circuits operating at low voltage (0.7 V) is demonstrated, as well as the compatibility with an ...
Giulia Coco +8 more
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Proceedings, 2018 An electrostatic membrane actuator with an elastomer membrane as movable part and silver nanowires (AgNWs) as flexible electrode material is built and characterized.
Stefan Schierle +3 more
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From Food to Power: Hydrogel Thermoelectrics for Ingestible Electronics
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.We introduce a fully edible thermoelectric–electrochromic platform that harvests heat from food and converts it into a visible color change. N‐type and p‐type hydrogel thermoelectric generators connected in series power anthocyanin‐based electrochromic displays, demonstrating the feasibility of safe, biodegradable, ingestible systems for on‐food ...
Antonia Georgopoulou +3 more
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Smooth boundary topology optimisation applied to an electrostatic actuator
, 2008 Smooth boundary topology optimisation in conjunction with the continuum design sensitivity analysis avoids many of the problems encountered by conventional cell-based systems coupled with material homogenisation or the density method.
Lowther, D.A., Kim, D.H., Sykulski, J.K.
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A quasi-zero stiffness biasing mechanism for electrostatic bellow muscle zipping actuators
Materials & DesignElectrostatic zipping actuators are electromechanical drives capable of large voltage-induced deformations, with promising applications in soft robotics and wearable mechatronics.
Hadi Taghvaei +5 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Chitosan, a polysaccharide upcycled from biowaste, has long promised sustainable, biocompatible, and antimicrobial films and devices, an appeal reinforced by its recent regulatory recognition, with several chitosan‐based antibacterial dressings gaining clearance through the Food and Drug Administration's 510(k) pathway.
Jacopo Nicoletti +16 more
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