A novel carbon fiber reinforcement for dielectric elastomer actuators enhances actuation force while decoupling electromechanical performance from the actuator's aspect ratio. Unlike conventional fiber reinforcements, it enables a uniform planar stretch state along the entire actuator.
Markus Koenigsdorff +8 more
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Biocompatible Electrospun Biomaterials for Advancing Thermoregulating Wearable Sensors in Next-Generation Smart Textiles. [PDF]
Varnaitė-Žuravliova S +5 more
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Auto‐Routing Fluidic Printed Circuit Boards
This work introduces (STREAM) software tool for routing efficiently advanced macrofluidics, an open‐source software tool for automating the design of 3D‐printable fluidic circuit boards. STREAM streamlines tube routing and layout, enabling the rapid fabrication of fluidic networks for soft robotics, lab‐on‐a‐chip devices, microfluidics, and biohybrid ...
Savita V. Kendre +3 more
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Mechanical Properties and Failure Mechanism of a Carbon Fiber/Silicone Rubber High-Temperature Flexible Textile Composite. [PDF]
Huang J +6 more
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Assessement of different techniques for adding thermoplastic matrixmaterial in the reinforcement structures [PDF]
De Baere, Ives +4 more
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Toward Wireless Implantable Robotic Systems Driven by Magnetic Field for Personalized Therapy
Robotic materials are playing an increasingly vital role in enabling sensing and actuation at small scales. This perspective highlights recent advances in magnetic materials and magnetically actuated devices for wireless sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting toward implantable robotic systems for closed‐loop therapy.
Yusheng Wang, Ruijian Ge, Xiaoguang Dong
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Visible-light-driven valorization of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural over a hollow Co<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub>@Zn<sub>3</sub>In<sub>2</sub>S<sub>6</sub> nanocage in base-free water under an air atmosphere. [PDF]
Dang R +8 more
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A Review on Sensor Technologies, Control Approaches, and Emerging Challenges in Soft Robotics
This review provides an introspective of sensors and controllers in soft robotics. Initially describing the current sensing methods, then moving on to the control methods utilized, and finally ending with challenges and future directions in soft robotics focusing on the material innovations, sensor fusion, and embedded intelligence for sensors and ...
Ean Lovett +5 more
wiley +1 more source
Tubular Membrane Coupled with Marine Waste-Derived Hybrid Adsorbent for Textile Micropollutant Removal and Photochemical Regeneration. [PDF]
Chihi R +4 more
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