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Fabric‐Based Wearable Robotic Exoskeleton Gloves: Advancements and Challenges

Advanced Materials Technologies, Volume 11, Issue 12, 18 June 2026.
This review highlights interdisciplinary technological advances in fabric‐based robotic gloves, focusing on progress in design, fabrication, actuation, sensing, control, and power and energy requirements. It also addresses performance testing and validation, including biomechanical, strength, functional, user experience, and durability assessments, to ...
Ayse Feyza Yilmaz, Gökhan Ince, Ozgur Atalay   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic Current Routing in Conductive Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Complex Deformation Actuators

Advanced Materials Technologies, Volume 11, Issue 12, 18 June 2026.
This work introduces a novel actuation control strategy in which electrical stimulation generates localized Joule heating in conductive liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) surfaces, enabling complex 3D deformations from a single homogeneous surface without preprogramming.
Gloria PouWai Lei, Morgan Barnes, Thomas George Thuruthel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A fully integrated wearable AC electrothermal actuation platform for biofluid manipulation

, 2019
We present a wearable electrokinetic actuation platform, which leverages the alternating current electrothermal (ACET) phenomenon to induce tunable biofluid flow profiles on-body.
Yu, Wenzhuo, Lin, Haisong, Lin, Shuyu, King, Kimber, Wang, Zhaoqing, Wang, Bo, Tan, Jiawei, Hojaiji, Hannaneh, Cheng, Xuanbing, Yeung, Christopher, Emaminejad, Sam, Wang, Yibo, Zhao, Yichao, Malige, Meghana   +13 more
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Developing Micro/Nanostructured Fluidic Mixing Technology for Biomedical Applications

Advanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 33, 15 June 2026.
This review critically evaluates how micro/nanostructured mixing technologies are redefining biomedical research. By synergizing fundamental analysis, numerical modeling, structural design, and external field manipulation, these systems attain unprecedented control over mass transport.
Junkai Wang, Hanxu Chen, Yile Fang, Yuanjin Zhao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ionogel Actuators: A Review

SmartBot, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2026.
Ionogels dynamically and functionally couple ionic liquids with polymer networks, enabling multiscale programmable deformation and motion under electrical, magnetic, optical, thermal, humidity, and chemical stimuli. This article systematically elucidates the constituent components, structural design, and multiscale actuation mechanisms of ionogel ...
Dezhou Cao, Dongqing He, Yuanxiang Zhao, Dongdong Jin, Jiaheng Zhang, Wei Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Fast, Large-Stroke Electrothermal MEMS Mirror Based on Cu/W Bimorph

Micromachines, 2015
This paper reports a large-range electrothermal bimorph microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) mirror with fast thermal response. The actuator of the MEMS mirror is made of three segments of Cu/W bimorphs for lateral shift cancelation and two segments of ...
Xiaoyang Zhang, Liang Zhou, Huikai Xie
doaj   +1 more source

Post-Release Deformation and Motion Control of Photonic Waveguide Beams by Tuneable Electrothermal Actuators in Thick SiO2

Micromachines, 2018
Photonic packaging, which includes high-precision assembly of photonic sub-systems, is currently a bottleneck in the development of commercially-available integrated photonic products.
Kai Wu, Marcel Tichem
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Microcantilever actuation via periodic internal heating

, 2007
This paper reports electrothermal actuation of silicon microcantilevers having integrated resistive heaters. Periodic electrical excitation induced periodic resistive heating in the cantilever, while the cantilever deflection was monitored with a ...
Lee, Jungchul, Jungchul Lee, King, William P., William P. King   +3 more
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Visualization 1: Electrothermal MEMS parallel plate rotation for single-imager stereoscopic endoscopes

, 2016
This video shows electrothermal actuation in dynamic mode.
Min-Suk Lee (3985628), Baek, Seung-Hwan, Lee, Min-Suk, Hyeon-Cheol Park (3958667), Park, Hyeon-Cheol, Jang, Kyung-Won, Min H. Kim (3985625), Kim, Min H., Sung-Pyo Yang (2590567), Seo, Yeong-Hyeon, Kyung-Won Jang (3985631), Ki-Hun Jeong (1678522), Jeong, Ki-Hun, Yeong-Hyeon Seo (3958673), Yang, Sung-Pyo, Seung-Hwan Baek (3985634)   +15 more
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Recent progress in mechanically reconfigurable metasurfaces

APL Photonics
Optical metasurfaces, which enable precise light manipulation within subwavelength-scale thicknesses, have gained extensive research interest over recent decades.
Xingling Pan, Ziru Cai, Zhiming Chen, Yingtao Ding, Ziwei Zheng, Fei Ding   +5 more
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