Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects
Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
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Thermoplastic elastomers containing antimicrobial and antiviral additives for mobility applications. [PDF]
Compos B Eng, 2022 Iyigundogdu Z +8 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Inspired by human touch, a tendon‐driven soft robotic finger combines multimodal tactile sensing and deep learning to simultaneously perceive texture and softness on deformable surfaces. A CNN‐LSTM model fuses pressure, accelerometer, and gyroscope signals to accurately classify material properties, achieving up to 95.4% texture and 97.0% softness ...
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Development of Sustainable, Mechanically Strong, and Self-Healing Bio-Thermoplastic Elastomers Reinforced with Alginates. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel), 2022 Utrera-Barrios S +5 more
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Studies On Thermoplastic Elastomers With Special Reference To Triblock Copolymers And Nbr/Pvc Blends
, 1992 Thermoplastic elastomers are a relatively new class of materials which compete with thermoset rubbers in some areas and thermoplastic materials in other areas.
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.How can additive manufacturing enable components that sense, adapt, heal, and power themselves? This review synthesizes recent advances in smart functionalities, manufacturing technologies, and intelligent design strategies, revealing a pathway toward fully integrated, autonomous, and multifunctional systems across diverse engineering sectors. Additive
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An Integrated Fabric‐Pneumatic Soft Sensing System for Multi‐Site Muscle Activity Decoding
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Fabric‐pneumatic chambers convert muscle deformation into pressure signals without electronics at the body‐contact sensing interface. A unified processing pipeline enables static posture classification, continuous elbow‐angle estimation, forearm gesture recognition, and knee‐movement detection across three anatomical sites.
Qifeng Xun +3 more
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Direct Synthesis of Polyethylene Thermoplastic Elastomers Using Hybrid Bulky Acenaphthene-Based α-Diimine Ni(II) Catalysts. [PDF]
Molecules, 2023 Wang H, Lu W, Zou M, Dai S.
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HeaTrace: A Parametric Design‐to‐Fabrication Workflow for Thermally Programmable Soft Robots
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A programmable thermal actuation workflow enables soft robots to be designed and fabricated with embedded heaters that drive multiple responses. By combining performance‐driven heater design with multimaterial fabrication, the system supports thermally triggered shape change, stiffness tuning, and thermochromic visual response, as demonstrated through ...
Naresh Kumar Thanigaivel +9 more
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Morphological Evolution and Damping Properties of Dynamically Vulcanized Butyl Rubber/Polypropylene Thermoplastic Elastomers. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel), 2022 Tang Q, Hu S, Han L, Zong C, Sun J.
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