Light-driven bimorph soft actuators: design, fabrication, and properties

Y Chen, J Yang, X Zhang, Y Feng, H Zeng, L Wang… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft robots that can move like living organisms and adapt to their surroundings are currently
in the limelight from fundamental studies to technological applications, due to their advances …

Recent progresses on physics and applications of vanadium dioxide

K Liu, S Lee, S Yang, O Delaire, J Wu - Materials Today, 2018 - Elsevier
As a strongly correlated electron material, vanadium dioxide (VO 2) has been a focus of
research since its discovery in 1959, owing to its well-known metal–insulator transition …

Electric-field induced structural transition in vertical MoTe2- and Mo1–xWxTe2-based resistive memories

F Zhang, H Zhang, S Krylyuk, CA Milligan, Y Zhu… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Transition metal dichalcogenides have attracted attention as potential building blocks for
various electronic applications due to their atomically thin nature and polymorphism. Here …

Vanadium dioxide: The multistimuli responsive material and its applications

Y Ke, S Wang, G Liu, M Li, TJ White, Y Long - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The reversible, ultrafast, and multistimuli responsive phase transition of vanadium dioxide
(VO2) makes it an intriguing “smart” material. Its crystallographic transition from the …

If it's pinched it'sa memristor

L Chua - Semiconductor Science and Technology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents an in-depth review of the memristor from a rigorous circuit-theoretic
perspective, independent of the material the device is made of. From an experimental …

Recent progress on vanadium dioxide nanostructures and devices: Fabrication, properties, applications and perspectives

Y Zhang, W Xiong, W Chen, Y Zheng - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Vanadium dioxide (VO2) is a typical metal-insulator transition (MIT) material, which changes
from room-temperature monoclinic insulating phase to high-temperature rutile metallic …

Recent advances in fabrication strategies, phase transition modulation, and advanced applications of vanadium dioxide

R Shi, N Shen, J Wang, W Wang, A Amini… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Vanadium dioxide (VO 2), with the first-order metal-insulator phase transition at near room
temperature, has attracted increasing attention in the past few decades. With rapid electrical …

Wafer-scale freestanding vanadium dioxide film

H Ma, X Xiao, Y Wang, Y Sun, B Wang, X Gao… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Vanadium dioxide (VO2), with well-known metal-to-insulator phase transition, has been
used to realize intriguing smart functions in photodetectors, modulators, and actuators …

Large-deformation curling actuators based on carbon nanotube composite: advanced-structure design and biomimetic application

L Chen, M Weng, Z Zhou, Y Zhou, L Zhang, J Li… - Acs Nano, 2015 - ACS Publications
In recent years, electroactive polymers have been developed as actuator materials. As an
important branch of electroactive polymers, electrothermal actuators (ETAs) demonstrate …

Torsional artificial muscles

S Aziz, GM Spinks - Materials Horizons, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Large stroke torsional actuators are the newest class of artificial muscle technology that
produces rotary motion or generate torque in response to various stimuli. A number of …