Hydrogel machines

X Liu, J Liu, S Lin, X Zhao - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
As polymer networks infiltrated with water, hydrogels constitute the major components of the
human body; and hydrogels have been widely used in applications that closely interact with …

Highly flexible, large-deformation ionic polymer metal composites for artificial muscles: Fabrication, properties, applications, and prospects

H Wang, L Yang, Y Yang, D Zhang, A Tian - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Intelligent materials are one of the important directions in the development of modern high-
tech new materials, realizing structural functionalization and functional diversification. As a …

Giant piezoionic effect of ultrathin MXene nanosheets toward highly-sensitive sleep apnea diagnosis

C Lu, X Yu, Y Chen, X Chen, X Zhang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Flexible piezoionic sensors are emerging as an important platform for non-invasive human
health detections. But it keeps a long way toward applications because of the weak …

[HTML][HTML] Ionic elastomers for electric actuators and sensors

C Feng, CPH Rajapaksha, A Jákli - Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past decades, ion conductive polymers and elastomers have drawn worldwide
attention for their advanced functions in batteries, electroactive soft robotics, and sensors …

[HTML][HTML] Electroactive material-based biosensors for detection and drug delivery

D Olvera, MG Monaghan - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Electroactive materials are employed at the interface of biology and electronics due to their
advantageous intrinsic properties as soft organic electronics. We examine the most recent …

[HTML][HTML] Progress of low-frequency sound absorption research utilizing intelligent materials and acoustic metamaterials

L Chang, A Jiang, M Rao, F Ma, H Huang, Z Zhu… - RSC …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to the impacts of environmental noises
on living creatures as well as the accuracy and stability of precise instruments. Due to …

Modular soft robotics: Modular units, connection mechanisms, and applications

C Zhang, P Zhu, Y Lin, Z Jiao… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Modularity is a way of decomposing a big and complex system or product into small, simple,
independent, and manageable modular units that can be easily composed, decomposed …

[HTML][HTML] Preparation and modification technology analysis of ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs)

C He, Y Gu, J Zhang, L Ma, M Yan, J Mou… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
As a new type of flexible smart material, ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) has the
advantages of being lightweight and having fast responses, good flexibility, and large …

[PDF][PDF] 机器人多指灵巧手的研究现状, 趋势与挑战

蔡世波, 陶志成, 万伟伟, 喻豪勇, 鲍官军 - 机械工程学报, 2021 - qikan.cmes.org
机器人多指灵巧手是一种高度灵活, 复杂的末端执行器, 因其能够模仿人手的各种灵巧抓持和
复杂操作能力, 半个多世纪以来得到持续的研发投入和广泛关注, 备受社会各界期待 …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in preparation process of ionic polymer-metal composites

L Yang, H Wang, X Zhang - Results in Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
Ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) is a typical electroactive polymers material, which has
the advantages of light weight, fast response, good flexibility, large deformation range and …