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Fully Additive Vertical Organic Electrochemical Transistors on Renewable and Compostable Substrates Enable Ultrasensitive Bioelectronics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Fully additive vertical organic electrochemical transistors (vOECTs) with channel‐length of 226 nm on a 50 µm compostable substrate achieve >106 current modulation and ∼36 mS transconductance. Ion‐selective integration enables 1.1 mA dec−1 sensitivity and 36 µm detection limit, highlighting a scalable platform for sustainable electronics and ...
Giulia Frusconi, Samuele Lavelli, Zsolt M. Kovács‐Vajna, Fabrizio Torricelli   +3 more
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Dual Actuator Wave‐Like Navigator: An Untethered Soft Crawling Robot for Multisurface Locomotion

Advanced Intelligent Systems
Wave‐based mechanisms inspired by traveling wave locomotion in animals have shown great potential use in robots to navigate unstructured environments.
Mathias Jensen, Magnus Malthe Sigsgaard Nielsen, Nicklas Nikolaj Grønvall, Jonathan Tirado, Jonas Jørgensen, Saravana Prashanth Murali Babu   +5 more
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Electrocapillary Modulated Interfacial Tension Amplifies Liquid Metal Transduction

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study presented an electrocapillary‐enhanced magnetohydrodynamic pumping strategy that harnesses the Lorentz force and interfacial tension modulation of liquid metal droplets to achieve amplified fluidic power. The system enabled low‐voltage, self‐oscillating fluidic transduction with enhanced pressure and flow generation, supporting compact ...
Saba Firouznia, Ciqun Xu, Michael D. Dickey, Jonathan Rossiter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soft Robotic Grippers for Biological Sampling on Deep Reefs [PDF]

, 2016
This article presents the development of an underwater gripper that utilizes soft robotics technology to delicately manipulate and sample fragile species on the deep reef. Existing solutions for deep sea robotic manipulation have historically been driven
Galloway, Kevin C., Kirby, Jordan, Licht, Stephen, Wood, Robert J., Becker, Kaitlyn P., Phillips, Brennan, Gruber, David F., Tchernov, Dan, Becker, Kaitlyn, Wood, Robert   +9 more
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Soft Adaptive Feet for Legged Robots: An Open-Source Model for Locomotion Simulation

IEEE Access
In recent years, artificial feet based on soft robotics and under-actuation principles emerged to improve mobility on challenging terrains. This paper presents the application of the MuJoCo physics engine to realize a digital twin of an adaptive soft ...
Matteo Crotti, Luca Rossini, Balint K. Hodossy, Anna Pace, Giorgio Grioli, Antonio Bicchi, Manuel G. Catalano   +6 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, Shuvra Mondal, Sungkeun Han, Chan‐Hwi Eom, Venkata Ramesh Naganaboina, Suk‐Won Hwang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bio-inspired 3D printing approach for bonding soft and rigid materials through underextrusion

Scientific Reports
Vertebrate animals benefit from a combination of rigidity for structural support and softness for adaptation. Similarly, integrating rigidity and softness can enhance the versatility of soft robotics.
Arman Goshtasbi, Luca Grignaffini, Ali Sadeghi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tough and Skin‐Free Porous Polyelectrolyte Complex Hydrogels via Salt‐Induced Aqueous Phase Separation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Controlling counterion exchange rate during aqueous phase separation enables the formation of skin‐free, homogeneously porous polyelectrolyte complex hydrogels by suppressing kinetically trapped skin layers and macrovoids. The resulting hydrogel networks exhibit exceptional toughness (∼15 MJ·m−3) and enable 3D (bio)printing and post‐functionalization ...
Adrivit Mukherjee, Vishakha Vishakha, Julien Es Sayed, Hugo Brummer, Peter Dijkstra, Ajay Giri Prakash Kottapalli, Ranjita K. Bose, Marleen Kamperman   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Earthworm‐Inspired Soft Skin Crawling Robot

Advanced Science
Earthworms are fascinating animals capable of crawling and burrowing through various terrains using peristaltic motion and the directional friction response of their epidermis.
Jonathan Tirado, Cao Danh Do, Joséphine Moisson de Vaux, Jonas Jørgensen, Ahmad Rafsanjani   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source