Liquid Crystalline Elastomers in Soft Robotics: Assessing Promise and Limitations
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are programmable soft materials that undergo large, anisotropic deformation in response to external stimuli. Their molecular alignment encodes directional actuation in a monolithic structure, making them long‐standing candidates for soft robotic systems.
Justin M. Speregen, Timothy J. White
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Effects of Extrinsic Magnetized GaAs in One-Dimensional Ternary Photonic Crystals. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Biswal A, Behera H, Hsu TW.
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Functional Fibers in Soft Robotics: Advances in Material, Structural, and Systemic Tactics
Advanced 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
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Emergent Berry Curvature in Inversion-Symmetric Photonic Crystals for Ultraconfined Topological States. [PDF]
Adv MaterTan YJ, Singh R.
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Flexible Sensors for Robotics Tactile Perception: A Review
Advanced 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
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Wannier functions of defective photonic crystals with broken translational symmetry. [PDF]
Sci RepBiswas P +4 more
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Perspective: Hollow Core Optical Fibres for Ultraviolet and Visible Wavelengths
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Hollow core optical fibres bypass material constraints that limit optical fibres at ultraviolet and visible wavelengths. However, their challenging fabrication has limited their development, and significant gains in performance remain possible. In this perspective we outline approaches to enable the next generation of fibres for shorter wavelengths ...
Robbie Mears +5 more
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Optically isotropic fast phase modulation in 3D blue phase photonic crystals. [PDF]
Sci RepJankowski T +5 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Temperature‐dependent electron diffraction on tin monochalcogenides demonstrates a gradual displacive transformation between ferroelectric and paraelectric phases with significant variability in lattice constants and Curie temperature (TC). Periodic variations exist even between domains in individual crystals, implying a domain‐specific Curie ...
Peter Sutter, Eli Sutter
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Ultrasensitive topological interface modes for refractive index sensing via all-dielectric one-dimensional photonic crystals. [PDF]
Sci RepAhmed S +6 more
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