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Mechanically strong, stretchable and self-healable silicone elastomers with designed dynamic networks for exceptional self-adhesion under harsh conditions

open access: yesAdvanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer Research
Silicone elastomers with wide-temperature stability and excellent mechanical flexibility have attracted considerable interest in both academic and industrial fields.
Shuai-Chi Liu   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

3D Printing of High Viscosity Reinforced Silicone Elastomers. [PDF]

open access: yesPolymers (Basel), 2021
Rodriguez N   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deterioration behavior of aged magnetorheological elastomer under harsh marine environment

open access: yeseXPRESS Polymer Letters
Silicone rubber magnetorheological elastomers (SR-MREs) are increasingly recognized for their resilience in marine conditions, offering prolonged service life and durability.
Nursyafiqah Zaini   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mechanical properties and bonding of maxillofacial silicone elastomers

open access: yes, 2010
Objectives: Maxillofacial silicone elastomers are used to replace facial parts lost through disease or trauma. However, these materials do not possess ideal properties.
Hatamleh, Muhanad M.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

A Soft Robotic Fish With a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Body and Negative Stiffness Spine

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work introduces a bio‐mimetic soft robotic fish driven by fiber‐reinforced dielectric elastomer actuators integrated as its body. By prestretching this active skin against a flexible spine, a negative stiffness system is created, enabling large‐amplitude bending.
Markus Koenigsdorff   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

COMPARISON OF ADHERENCE OF CANDiDA ALBICANS ON THREE SILICONE ELASTOMERS

open access: yes, 2005
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the adherence of Candida albicans to the maxillofacial prosthesis commonly employed in material-silicone and to compare silicone elastomers.
Azak, Aysen Nekora   +4 more
core  

Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Additive manufacturing of silicone for biomedical applications

open access: yesBiomedical Engineering Advances
The manufacturing of silicone-based elastomers has been the center of research for several decades and the renaissance of the manufacturing industry via additive manufacturing (AM) seems to verve the hype of the widespread industrial applications of ...
Deon Johan de Beer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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