Artificial cilia-based microfluidics is a promising alternative in lab-on-a-chip applications
which provides an efficient way to manipulate fluid flow in a microfluidic environment with …

Recently, hard-magnetic microparticles were embedded into soft matrix to manufacture a
new type of magnetoactive soft materials, ie hard-magnetic soft (HMS) materials. Due to the …

Hard-magnetic soft (HMS) materials are soft active materials prepared by embedding the
hard-magnetic particles (eg NdFeB) into soft elastomer, which can be actuated by applied …

Hard-magnetic soft materials (HMSMs) manufactured by embedding hard-magnetic particles
in soft materials belong to a new type of soft active materials. The abilities of fast and …

Engineered honeycomb lattice materials with high specific strength and stiffness along with
the advantage of programmable direction-dependent mechanical tailorability are being …

Soft active materials that show a response under external stimuli such as light, electricity,
heat and magnetic fields have wide applications in the fields of soft robotics, flexible …

Recently, many studies on bio-mimic soft robots have been reported. Among living
organisms, the locomotion of soft-bodied creatures, such as snails, worms and nematodes …

Hard-magnetic soft (HMS) beams made of soft polymer matrix embedded with hard-
magnetic particles can generate large and fast deformation under magnetic stimulation …

Magnetorheological elastomers are active materials which can be actuated by the applied
magnetic field. Hard magnetic soft (HMS) materials, a type of magnetorheological …

Soft robotics has become an attractive research topic with the recent development of soft
actuators. Herein, we propose a deformable soft actuator with large volumetric changes. The …