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Progress of MXenes‐based responsive materials for soft sensors and actuators

Responsive Materials, EarlyView.
MXene, a promising 2D material, excels at mimicking human sensing and feedback system, making it ideal for intelligent robots. This review first covers its structure, properties, and synthesis. It then summarizes recent MXene‐based sensors and actuator.
Peidi Zhou, Wenjie Yang, Yihan Qiu, Meiping Xu, Leiting Liao, Xinlei Gong, Chan Zheng, Minghua You, Cheng Zhang, Huamin Chen, Mingcen Weng   +10 more
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Development of 4D printing and its performance testing methods

Responsive Materials, EarlyView.
This paper reviews the molding methods of 4D printing and its applications in various fields, with emphasis on 4D printing performance testing methods. Abstract 4D printing is a cutting‐edge additive manufacturing technology that introduces the time dimension, allowing printed objects to have dynamic, changeable properties, functions or shapes ...
Guiwei Li, Chaoyue Huang, Yucheng Luo, Jialu Xu, Lei Zhang, Fei Gao, Ke Li, Wenzheng Wu, Luquan Ren   +8 more
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Bio-Inspired Flexible Flapping Wings with Elastic Deformation

Aerospace, 2017
Over the last decades, there has been great interest in understanding the aerodynamics of flapping flight and development of flapping wing Micro Air Vehicles (FWMAVs).
Tien Van Truong, Quoc-Viet Nguyen, Heow Pueh Lee   +2 more
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Flapping wing energy harvesting: aerodynamic aspects

CEAS Aeronautical Journal, 2019
Aerodynamic forces on flapping wings create forward thrust. Natural flyers like birds and insects apply these forces effectively. Extensive studies have shown that the efficiency of flapping wings can be improved by various means. Of importance is the development and control of leading edge vortices (LEV’s).
openaire   +2 more sources

Big Bird: A global dataset of birds in drone imagery annotated to species level

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Drones are a valuable tool for surveying birds, but manually detecting and identifying birds in drone images is costly. We assembled a diverse dataset of 23 865 images of birds captured with 21 different drones across 11 countries. We labelled 4824 of these images, detailing the location, species, posture category, age category, and sex of 49 990 birds
Joshua P. Wilson, Tatsuya Amano, Thomas Bregnballe, Alejandro Corregidor‐Castro, Roxane Francis, Diego Gallego‐García, Jarrod C. Hodgson, Landon R. Jones, César R. Luque‐Fernández, Dominik Marchowski, John McEvoy, Ann E. McKellar, W. Chris Oosthuizen, Christian Pfeifer, Martin Renner, José Hernán Sarasola, Mateo Sokač, Roberto Valle, Adam Zbyryt, Richard A. Fuller   +19 more
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Ionogel Actuators: A Review

SmartBot, EarlyView.
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
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Lattices of hydrodynamically interacting flapping swimmers

, 2019
Fish schools and bird flocks exhibit complex collective dynamics whose self-organization principles are largely unknown. The influence of hydrodynamics on such collectives has been relatively unexplored theoretically, in part due to the difficulty in ...
Oza, Anand U., Ristroph, Leif, Shelley, Michael J.   +2 more
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Incorporating crystalline smart materials to fabricate 4D printed photomechanical actuators with photovoltaic performance

Smart Molecules, EarlyView.
A versatile 4D printed approach was developed to fabricate complex and refined photomechanical actuators using crystalline materials, including molecular crystals and covalent organic frameworks. The prepared smart actuators exhibited outstanding photomechanical and photovoltaic performance.
Yujie Liu, Jinjin Liu, Liqin Hao, En Lin, Jiaxi Wang, Tonghai Wang, Shubo Geng, Peng Cheng, Zhenjie Zhang   +8 more
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Continuous breakdown of Purcell's scallop theorem with inertia

, 2007
Purcell's scallop theorem defines the type of motions of a solid body - reciprocal motions - which cannot propel the body in a viscous fluid with zero Reynolds number. For example, the flapping of a wing is reciprocal and, as was recently shown, can lead
Alexander R. M., Childress S., Eric Lauga, Gray J.   +3 more
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Identification of Missing Knowledge in MBSE System Models Using Graph‐Based Machine Learning

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The design and development of complex aerospace systems pose significant challenges due to their growing complexity. Iterative design processes, guided by formal specifications, strive to refine initially vague characteristics through multiple stages.
Esma Karagoz, Olivia J. Pinon Fischer, Dimitri Mavris   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source