Advanced materials for energy harvesting and soft robotics: Emerging frontiers to enhance piezoelectric performance and functionality

L Persano, A Camposeo, F Matino, R Wang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric energy harvesting captures mechanical energy from a number of sources,
such as vibrations, the movement of objects and bodies, impact events, and fluid flow to …

Towards nanomaterial-incorporated soft actuators: from inorganic/organic material-based soft robot to biomaterial-based biohybrid robot

M Shin, S Kim, AA Melvin, JW Choi - BioChip Journal, 2024 - Springer
Soft actuators have played an indispensable part in the field of biosensors and soft robotics
as such systems offer solutions that cannot be addressed with rigid actuators due to the lack …

Battery-free, wireless, and electricity-driven soft swimmer for water quality and virus monitoring

D Li, J Zhou, Z Zhao, X Huang, H Li, Q Qu, C Zhou… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Miniaturized mobile electronic system is an effective candidate for in situ exploration of
confined spaces. However, realizing such system still faces challenges in powering issue …

Buckypaper made with carbon nanotubes derived from CO 2

G Licht, K Hofstetter, S Licht - RSC advances, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Unusual buckypapers, sheets of graphene nanocarbons (GNCs) such as carbon nanotubes,
were formed with GNCs directly derived from CO2 via molten carbonate electrolysis …

[HTML][HTML] Programmable materials: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives

G Scalet - Applied Materials Today, 2024 - Elsevier
Research into programmable materials has attracted extraordinary interest since the
nineties, when the term “programmable” was introduced for the first time. In its widest …

Highly affordable electrothermal actuators based on an embedded Cu microheater with a high-resolution pattern

DC Nguyen, TD Nguyen, YS Kim - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2024 - Elsevier
Herein, we present an affordable, a highly size-and shape-diverse high-resolution
microheater for efficiently and position-selectively heating soft electrothermal actuators. The …

[HTML][HTML] A Review of Soft Robotic Actuators and Their Applications in Bioengineering, with an Emphasis on HASEL Actuators' Future Potential

O Perera, R Liyanapathirana, G Gargiulo… - Actuators, 2024 - mdpi.com
This review will examine the rapidly growing field of soft robotics, with a special emphasis on
soft robotic actuators and their applications in bioengineering. Bioengineering has …

Soft Actuators and Actuation: Design, Synthesis and Applications

M Kalulu, B Chilikwazi, J Hu… - Macromolecular Rapid …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soft actuators are one of the most promising technological advancements with potential
solutions to diverse fields' day‐to‐day challenges. Soft actuators derived from hydrogel …

Bioinspired Stimuli-Responsive Materials for Soft Actuators

Z Wang, Y Chen, Y Ma, J Wang - Biomimetics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Biological species can walk, swim, fly, jump, and climb with fast response speeds and
motion complexity. These remarkable functions are accomplished by means of soft actuation …

An active interface pressure adapter for enhancing sensing capacity and stability of wearable electronics

J Li, X Yu - 2024 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Micro …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wearable hybrid systems offer the potential for continuous and reliable on-skin monitoring of
physiological indicators. These systems typically consist of sensing modules, signal …