Actuation for flexible and stretchable microdevices

URT Arachchige, A Mudugamuwa, H Cha… - Lab on a Chip, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Flexible and stretchable microdevices incorporate highly deformable structures, facilitating
precise functionality at the micro-and millimetre scale. The flexible microdevices have …

[PDF][PDF] Actuation for flexible and stretchable microdevices

U Roshan, A Mudugamuwa, H Cha, S Hettiarachchi… - Lab on a Chip, 2024 - ntnlab.com
Over the past decades, device miniaturisation, flexibility, and stretchability have received
increasing attention to enhance portability and wearability, overcome dimensional …

The role of defects in dictating the strength of brittle honeycombs made by rapid prototyping

PE Seiler, HC Tankasala, NA Fleck - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Rapid prototyping is an emerging technology for the fast make of engineering components.
A common technique is to laser cut a two-dimensional (2D) part from polymethyl …

An analytical approach to assess the variation of lubricant supply to the cutting tool during MQL assisted high speed micromilling

S Saha, S Deb, PP Bandyopadhyay - Journal of Materials Processing …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Minimum Quantity Lubrication (MQL) assisted micromilling showed promising
results in improving machinability. However, no past work is available on the adequacy of …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical response of four polycarbonates at a wide range of strain rates and temperatures

P Song, AR Trivedi, CR Siviour - Polymer Testing, 2023 - Elsevier
Polycarbonate is widely used in engineering applications in which its mechanical properties
need to be well understood over a wide range of strain rates and temperatures. These …

MXene-Coated Porous Films Prepared by Breathing Figure Method for Efficient Solar Steam Generation

Q Chen, Y Liu, A Yi, Z Man, R Jiao, H Sun… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The interfacial solar steam generation for seawater desalination has attracted attention
because of its excellent photothermal performance and efficiency. However, the process of …

The sensitivity of the tensile properties of PMMA, Kevlar® and Dyneema® to temperature and strain rate

J Zhou, U Heisserer, PW Duke, PT Curtis, J Morton… - Polymer, 2021 - Elsevier
We employed a new test technique to measure the tensile response of PMMA, Kevlar® and
Dyneema® products at strain rates ranging from 10− 4 to 323 s− 1. We then extended this …

Abnormal brittle-ductile transition for glassy polymers after free and constrained melt stretching: The role of molecular alignment

Q Yan, T Xu, W Zhang, C Lv, H Guo, F Tian, W Chen… - Polymer, 2021 - Elsevier
By comparing the brittle-ductile transition (BDT) behavior between uniaxial width-Free Melt
pre-Stretched (FMS) and width-Constrained Melt pre-Stretched (CMS) poly (methyl …

Ultra-strong and fast response gel by solvent exchange and its shape memory applications

J Liao, J Huang, S Yang, X Wang, T Wang… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Solvent response gels were synthesized by copolymerization of hydrophobic butyl
methacrylate (BMA) and hydrophilic methacrylic acid (MAA) with cross-linker N, N …

A laboratory study of hydraulic fracturing at the brittle-ductile transition

F Parisio, K Yoshioka, K Sakaguchi, R Goto, T Miura… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Developing high-enthalpy geothermal systems requires a sufficiently permeable formation to
extract energy through fluid circulation. Injection experiments above water's critical point …