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

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

Flexible magnetic film: Key technologies and applications

H Shen, B Gao, S Pan, L Liu, G Yang - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent advances in flexible magnetic film technologies have attracted wide attentions,
which provides both magnetizable and flexible properties for advanced sensor and actuator …

Computational design of ultra-robust strain sensors for soft robot perception and autonomy

H Yang, S Ding, J Wang, S Sun… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Compliant strain sensors are crucial for soft robots' perception and autonomy. However, their
deformable bodies and dynamic actuation pose challenges in predictive sensor …

Predicting mechanical behaviors of rubber materials with artificial neural networks

Z Yuan, MQ Niu, H Ma, T Gao, J Zang, Y Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rubber is considered as a new material for making landing gear shock absorbers for new
energy electric aircraft. This investigation tested nitrile butadiene rubber blocks with different …

Highly Flexible Strain Sensors Based on CNT-Reinforced Ecoflex Silicone Rubber for Wireless Facemask Breathing Monitoring via Bluetooth

A del Bosque… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Highly stretchable strain sensors based on carbon nanotube (CNT)-reinforced Ecoflex
silicone rubber are developed for breathing monitoring purposes. The addition of CNTs …

[HTML][HTML] Highly stretchable strain sensors based on graphene nanoplatelet-doped ecoflex for biomedical purposes

A del Bosque, XF Sánchez-Romate, A Gómez… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ultrasensitive and highly stretchable strain sensors based on graphene nanoplatelet (GNP)
doped Ecoflex are proposed. First, the electrical and electromechanical properties are …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of cyclic straining with various rates on stress softening/hysteresis and structural evolution of filled rubber: a time-resolved SANS study

TT Yang, Y Shui, CS Wei, LZ Huang, CW Yang… - Composites Part B …, 2022 - Elsevier
The effect of cyclic straining on stress softening/hysteresis and structural evolution silica
filled deuterated silicone rubber (SFdSR) during cyclic deformation has been investigated. In …

A multiaxial fracture of ecoflex skin with different shore hardness for morphing wing application

D Ahmad, RM Ajaj - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
The use of elastomer-based skins in morphing wings has become increasingly popular due
to their remarkable stretchability and mechanical properties. However, the possibility of the …

Network alteration of cyclically loaded elastomers mediated by dynamic bonds

J Lin, H Li, F Zhu, Q Ge, J Qian, R Xiao - … of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Elastomers and hydrogels with dynamic network structures have received considerable
research interest due to their high strength and toughness, and self-healing ability. While the …

A hyperelastic-damage model based on the strain invariants

S Shen, D Zhong, S Qu, R Xiao - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
We develop a unified framework to describe the hyperelastic and damage behaviors of soft
materials. The free energy density consists of both the crosslinked part of Langevin chains …