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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.TESCLA (tubular electromagnetic soft conformal linear actuator) combines liquid‐metal solenoids and compliant magnetic composites to achieve large‐stroke bidirectional actuation with continuous bending. Integrated inductance‐based self‐sensing enables proprioceptive position estimation without external sensors, providing a versatile platform for soft ...
Yeongjin Choi +3 more
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Light-Responsive Soft Robot Integrating Actuation and Function Based on Laser Cutting
MicromachinesSoft robots with good deformability and adaptability have important prospects in the bionics and intelligence field. However, current research into soft robots is primarily limited to the study of actuators and ignores the integrated use of functional ...
Ben Jia +6 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Cancer‐associated NPC remodeling creates a high‐flux, low‐stringency nuclear state that supports malignant adaptation but increases mechanical fragility. Targeting the FG‐barrier or NPC scaffold may drive mechanostat failure, envelope rupture, DNA damage, and loss of nuclear integrity.
Sílvio Terra Stefanello +5 more
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Artificial Intelligence Meets Micro/Nanorobotics
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Artificial intelligence is transforming micro‐ and nanorobots from externally controlled, task‐specific machines into adaptive, autonomous systems. Machine learning, multimodal perception, digital twins, AI‐guided materials and geometry design enhance propulsion, localization, decision‐making, whichaccelerates clinical and environmental applications ...
Fatma M. Yurtsever +6 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.A novel polar wurtzite alloy, NbAlN, is demonstrated as a transition‐metal‐containing polar barrier for GaN heterostructures. Nb atoms form coherent nanoscale enrichment within the wurtzite lattice without disrupting metal polarity. This study demonstrates that transition metals can be integrated into polar nitrides to enable polarization‐related ...
Atsushi Kobayashi +12 more
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Biocompatible Ionogels for Electroactive Actuators
International audienceThe development of soft robotics is challenging and exciting for wide range of field from industry to medicine. Its development is tied to the availability of efficient, flexible and soft actuators.
Ni, Bin +5 more
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Advanced Materials for Biologics Delivery to Brain Tumors
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Material innovation is central to unlocking the therapeutic potential of biologics against many central nervous system diseases, including brain cancer. By engineering carriers with controlled transport, targeting, and release properties, advanced materials can overcome the blood–brain barrier and tumor microenvironment, improving the delivery of ...
Yuran Feng +4 more
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Fast Hydrogel Micro‐Actuators Driven by Electric Fields
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.We report the fabrication of chemically programmable electroactuating microstructures through the first integration of two‐photon polymerization with electrically actuated gelatin methacrylate‐based hydrogels. By tailoring the charge of the polymer network, we demonstrate programmable polarity‐dependent bending, enabling microstructures that ...
Annaël Sort‐Montenegro +6 more
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SMA Wire Use in Hybrid Twisting and Bending/Extending Soft Fiber-Reinforced Actuators
ActuatorsSoft fiber-reinforced actuators have demonstrated significant potential across various robotics applications. However, the actuation motion in these actuators is typically limited to a single type of motion behavior, such as bending, extending, and ...
Seyedreza Kashef Tabrizian +3 more
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editorial reviewedThe Special Issue "Soft Actuators and Robotics" presents a curated collection of innovative research papers that delve into the design, fabrication, and application of soft actuators and soft robotics.
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