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A Lightweight Soft Exosuit for Elbow Rehabilitation Powered by a Multi-Bundle SMA Actuator [PDF]
Stroke is one of the leading causes of long-term disability worldwide, often resulting in motor impairments that limit the ability to perform daily activities independently.
Copaci, Dorin +7 more
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Biodegradable and Biocompatible Functional Polymers for Biomedical Applications
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Biodegradable and biocompatible functional polymers integrate electrical, mechanical, and stimuli‐responsive functionalities while enabling programmed degradation under physiological conditions. This review introduces recent advances in conductive, shape‐memory, self‐healing, photocurable, and adhesive polymer systems, emphasizing material design ...
Won Bae Han +5 more
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Strong Lead‐Free Bioinspired Piezoceramics for Durable Energy Transducers
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.We fabricated brick‐and‐mortar lead‐free piezoceramics with Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3 monocrystal platelets as bricks and amorphous silica as mortar. The alignment of the bricks and the presence of the amorphous silica led to anisotropic residual stresses. These residual stresses increase the samples toughness, strength and durability while the brick alignment ...
Ruxue Yang +12 more
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Precharged Pneumatic Soft Actuators and Their Applications to Untethered Soft Robots
, 2018 The past decade has witnessed tremendous progress in soft robotics. Unlike most pneumatic-based methods, we present a new approach to soft robot design based on precharged pneumatics (PCP).
Chen, YH, Choi, SH
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Interfacing Soft And Hard: A Spring Reinforced Actuator
, 2020 Muscular hydrostats have long been a source of inspiration for soft robotic designs. With their inherent compliance, they excel in unpredictable environments and can gently manipulate objects with ease.
Au, SKW +7 more
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Compliant Electromagnetic Actuator Architecture for Soft Robotics
, 2022 Soft materials and compliant actuation concepts have generated new design and control approaches in areas from robotics to wearable devices. Despite the potential of soft robotic systems, most designs currently use hard pumps, valves, and electromagnetic
Mensah, Yaw +4 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A single‐step laser annealing strategy is presented for dual‐gate a‐IGZO TFTs. The steep thermal gradient induces graded oxygen doping in the channel and simultaneous WOx removal at the contacts, enabling concurrent interface and contact engineering.
Sihyeon Kwon +9 more
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Soft Pneumatic Bending Actuator with Integrated Carbon Nanotube Displacement Sensor
, 2016 The excellent compliance and large range of motion of soft actuators controlled by fluid pressure has lead to strong interest in applying devices of this type for biomimetic and human-robot interaction applications. However, in contrast to soft actuators
Philippe Mousset +13 more
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Application and Analysis of an Ionic Liquid Gel in a Soft Robot
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2019 Due to their light weight, flexibility, and low energy consumption, ionic electroactive polymers have become a hotspot for bionic soft robotics and are ideal materials for the preparation of soft actuators.
Chenghong Zhang +4 more
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Electrostatic Superlattices Beyond 1:1 Stoichiometry
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Polymer‐mediated charge regulation drives two hierarchical routes to higher‐stoichiometry nanoparticle superlattices. Tuning the polymer's molecular weight promotes progressive interstitial filling, transforming ZnS into the fully occupied CaF2${\rm CaF}_2$ lattice. Exchanging polymer assignment between large and small nanoparticles instead breaks CsCl
Binay P. Nayak +7 more
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