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Molecularly Dissipative Liquid Crystal Elastomer Foams for Impact and Vibration Attenuation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Liquid crystal elastomer foams integrate cellular deformation with mesogen reorientation to create a dual‐scale energy dissipation mechanism. Progressive pore collapse absorbs mechanical loads, while stress‐induced mesogen reorientation provides additional damping, resulting in reduced impact transmission and broadband suppression of vibrational ...
Subi Choi, Sangyeop Lee, In‐sun Jeong, Kyungjun Song, Eugene M. Terentjev, Suk‐kyun Ahn   +5 more
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Multimodal Limbless Crawling Soft Robot with a Kirigami Skin

Cyborg and Bionic Systems
Limbless creatures can crawl on flat surfaces by deforming their bodies and interacting with asperities on the ground, offering a biological blueprint for designing efficient limbless robots.
Jonathan Tirado, Aida Parvaresh, Burcu Seyidoğlu, Darryl A. Bedford, Jonas Jørgensen, Ahmad Rafsanjani   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Thin Film Limits—Superhard and Hydrogen‐Free Amorphous Carbon Coatings With Over 100 µm Thickness

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
For the first time, an extreme‐thick laser‐arc PVD ta‐C (DLC) coating exceeding 100 µm is demonstrated, opening up new possibilities for ultra‐high load bearing capacity. This superhard amorphous carbon architecture combines >50% sp3 bonding, robust adhesion and self‐supporting performance, shielding substrates from plastic flow under extreme contact ...
Martin Zawischa, Frank Kaulfuß, Stefan Makowski, Volker Weihnacht   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multidirectional Filamented Light Biofabrication Creates Aligned and Contractile Cardiac Tissues

Advanced Science
Biofabricating 3D cardiac tissues that mimic the native myocardial tissue is a pivotal challenge in tissue engineering. In this study, we fabricate 3D cardiac tissues with controlled, multidirectional cellular alignment and directed or twisting ...
Lewis S. Jones, Miriam Filippi, Mike Yan Michelis, Aiste Balciunaite, Oncay Yasa, Gal Aviel, Maria Narciso, Susanne Freedrich, Melanie Generali, Eldad Tzahor, Robert K. Katzschmann   +10 more
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Bistable Isochoric Chiral Metamaterials with Reprogrammable Multiaxial Responses

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An isochoric bistable rotational unit cell enables in situ modification of internal contact conditions post‐fabrication, without altering the global envelope dimensions of the surrounding architecture. By selectively switching between open and closed states, the tessellated chiral metamaterial can reprogram its volumetric response, including bulk ...
Shujia Chen, Lei Wu, Jingran Liu, Damiano Pasini   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Compression behavior of typical silicone rubbers for soft robotics applications at elevated temperatures

, 2021
In this communication, we analyze the compression behavior of typical silicone rubbers used in soft robotics applications at elevated temperatures. In particular, compression experiments according to ISO 7743 are performed with three mixing ratios (base ...
Maruthavanan, Duraikannan, Seibel, Arthur, Schimanowski, Alex, Utkan, Doruk   +3 more
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Design, Control, and Applications of Granular Jamming Grippers in Soft Robotics

Granular jamming grippers have emerged as a versatile solution in soft robotics due to their ability to manipulate objects of various shapes and sizes, earning them the label of “universal grippers”.
C. Miranda, J. Cortes
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Deformation‐Tolerant Functional Elastomer Overlayers for Haze‐Assisted Light Extraction and Color Conversion in Stretchable Mechanoluminescent Films

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Functional elastomer overlayers are integrated onto stretchable ZnS:Cu‐PDMS mechanoluminescent films to regulate light after emission without modifying the emissive composite. NLC‐PU provides haze‐assisted light extraction to enhance green mechanoluminescence, while DCM‐NLC‐PU combines green‐to‐yellow‐orange color conversion with enhanced outward light
Gyudam Jeon, Seongkyu Song, Soon Moon Jeong, Na Young Ha   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Programming Neuromorphic Plasticity Through Ionic and Electronic Coupling in Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Neuromorphic plasticity in OECTs is governed by the post‐stimulus evolution of coupled ionic and electronic states. Semiconductor chemistry and morphology, electrolyte composition and interfaces, and device architecture regulate ion injection, transport, confinement, and release, shifting responses from rapidly relaxing STP to metastable memory and ...
Inho Lee, Hyoik Jang, Ji Hwan Kim, Jonghyun Won, Namhee Kim, Wonseok Shin, Giwon Lee, Eunho Lee, Daegun Kim, Sungjun Park   +9 more
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Microfluidic Architecting of Patchy MXene Core‐Shell Particles for Ultralow‐Loading Photothermal Shape‐Memory Actuation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Spatially distributing Ti3C2Tx nanosheets into core‐shell architecture, rather than as directly dispersed flakes, mitigates aggregation and enhances photon harvesting. When the Ti3C2Tx core‐shell particles are incorporated into a shape‐memory polymer matrix at an ultralow loading of 0.0024 wt%, the improved photothermal conversion translates into ...
May Maung Zaw, Maxim M. Trubyanov, Qian Wang, Siyu Chen, Hongyi Chen, Keyu Chen, Hongbin Sun, Muthu Vignesh Vellayappan, Xiaoying Qi, Sharon Mui Ling Nai, Kostya S. Novoselov, David W. Rosen, Daria V. Andreeva   +12 more
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