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3D Printing Innovations in Polymeric Porous and Patterned Architecture

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Polymeric foams occupy a unique structural space between dense solids and open networks, where engineered void fraction governs mechanical compliance, thermal resistance, and mass transport. Additive manufacturing now enables precise spatial control over cellular architecture, unlocking designer foam structures across applications spanning crash ...
Dhanush Patil, Sri Vaishnavi Thummalapalli, Clarissa Westover, Arunachalam Ramanathan, M. Taylor Sobzcak, Roumika Patil, Qixuan Xiang, Tiantian Li, Sui Yang, Timothy E. Long, Hongyue Sun, Xianqiao Wang, Yang Liu, Kenan Song   +13 more
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Development and Integration of Carbon–Polydimethylsiloxane Sensors for Motion Sensing in Soft Pneumatic Actuators

Actuators
Drawing inspiration from the intricate soft structures found in nature, soft actuators possess the ability to incrementally execute complex tasks and adapt to dynamic and interactive environments.
Ke Ma, Sihuan Wu, Yuquan Zheng, Maosen Shao, Jie Zhang, Jianing Wu, Jinxiu Zhang   +6 more
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Review of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators and Their Applications in Soft Robots

Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021
Due to the inherent rigidity of hard materials, the adaptability and flexibility of traditional robots are limited. Recently, soft robots became one of the most attractive areas.
Yaguang Guo, Liwu Liu, Yanju Liu, Jinsong Leng   +3 more
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Ultrafast Soft Actuators

, 2021
Abstract The quest for an advanced soft robotic actuator technology that is fast and can execute a wide range of application-specific tasks at multiple length scales is still ongoing. Here, we demonstrate a new design strategy leveraging the concepts of miniaturisation and fibre-reinforcement to realize high-speed inflatable actuators ...
Dietmar Hutmacher, Benjamin Gorissen, Simon Liponsky, Katia Bertoldi, Tara Shabab, Onur Bas   +5 more
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High-Performance Nanocellulose-Based Ionic Electroactive Soft Actuators

High-performance electroactive polymer actuators with large bending, fast response, and high durability have gained attention in the development of micromanipulators and multifunctional bionic soft robots.
Qiyuan Cui, Yujiao Wu, Fan Wang
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Multimodal Perception and Machine Learning‐Empowered Human Machine Interfaces With Double‐Network Hydrogel Fibers

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work develops polyacrylamide‐alginate (PAM‐Alg) double‐network hydrogel fibers for multimodal perception and intelligent human‐machine interfaces. The covalent‐ionic network provides high strength, toughness, and stable conductivity. Easily woven into wearables and integrated with soft robots, the fibers enable object and temperature recognitions ...
Yujue Yang, Minyu Qiu, Di Tan, Xinlong Liu, Junze Zhang, Ziyu He, Jing Han, Yuanyuan Gao, Zihua Li, Hong Fu, Bingang Xu   +10 more
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Recent Advances in Electrically Driven Soft Actuators across Dimensional Scales from 2D to 3D

Advanced Intelligent Systems
Soft actuators have been an important research focus in robotics due to their advantages in nondestructive contact and excellent motion adaptability, which enable flexible manipulation, extreme environments exploration, and in vivo surgical treatment ...
Dengfeng Li, Jian Li, Pengcheng Wu, Guangyao Zhao, Qing'ao Qu, Xinge Yu   +5 more
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Mechanically programmable, degradable & ingestible soft actuators

One of the key challenges in soft robotics is the development of actuators which are truly soft and compliant, and can be adapted and tailored for different applications.
Hughes, Josie, Rus, Daniela
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Blood Biomarkers and Surface‐Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Gout: A Comprehensive Review

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Schematic illustrating gout disease progression from asymptomatic hyperuricemia to chronic tophaceous disease, highlighting the limitations of conventional imaging and biochemical diagnostics and the potential of engineered SERS platforms for ultrasensitive blood‐based detection of urate‐related biomarkers across disease stages, with the color gradient
Isuri Perera, Chiranjeevi Kanike, Appurva Tiwari, Hongyan Wu, Larry D. Unsworth, Ben Bin Xu, Xuehua Zhang   +6 more
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Soft actuator and agile soft robot

, 2022
Robots play an important part in many aspects of our society by doing repetitive, dangerous, or precision tasks. Most existing robots are made of rigid components, which lack passive compliance and pose a challenge in adapting to the environment and safe human-robot interaction.
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