[HTML][HTML] 3D printing of magneto-active smart materials for advanced actuators and soft robotics applications

MY Khalid, ZU Arif, A Tariq, M Hossain, KA Khan… - European Polymer …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the contemporary era, novel manufacturing technologies like additive manufacturing (AM)
have revolutionized the different engineering sectors including biomedical, aerospace …

Integrated sensors for soft medical robotics

Y Qiu, A Ashok, CC Nguyen, Y Yamauchi, TN Do… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Minimally invasive procedures assisted by soft robots for surgery, diagnostics, and drug
delivery have unprecedented benefits over traditional solutions from both patient and …

Multifunctional Polyoxometalates‐Based Ionohydrogels toward Flexible Electronics

ZD Wang, K Bo, CL Zhong, YH Xin, GL Lu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Multifunctional flexible electronics present tremendous opportunities in the rapidly evolving
digital age. One potential avenue to realize this goal is the integration of polyoxometalates …

Fibrous capsule-resistant, controllably degradable and functionalizable zwitterion-albumin hybrid hydrogels

Z Liu, X Zhou, Y Chen, Y Ni, Z Zhu, W Cao… - Biomaterials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Foreign body response (FBR) represents an immune-mediated cascade reaction capable of
inducing the rejection of foreign implants, thereby compromising their in vivo performance …

A multi-electrode electroelastomer cylindrical actuator for multimodal locomotion and its modeling

Y Zhang, Y Huang, W Sun, H Jin, J Zhang, L Xu… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) have received widespread attention in human-robot
interaction and biomedical engineering due to their merits of large deformation, fast …

[HTML][HTML] Origami-inspired soft fluidic actuation for minimally invasive large-area electrocorticography

L Coles, D Ventrella, A Carnicer-Lombarte… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Electrocorticography is an established neural interfacing technique wherein an array of
electrodes enables large-area recording from the cortical surface. Electrocorticography is …

[HTML][HTML] Intermittent actuation attenuates fibrotic behaviour of myofibroblasts

NA Ward, S Hanley, R Tarpey, LHJ Schreiber… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2024 - Elsevier
The foreign body response (FBR) to implanted materials culminates in the deposition of a
hypo-permeable, collagen rich fibrotic capsule by myofibroblast cells at the implant site. The …

Solar water evaporation-induced long-term locomotion of self-propelled soft robots

R Sun, C Liu, J Zhao, Q Sun, J Mo, Z Zhou - Nano Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Self-propelled soft robots have attracted extensive attention because of their unique
application in exploring dangerous and complex environments that are unsuitable for …

Robotic self-modulation enhances implantable long-acting drug delivery devices

T Desai, A Grattoni - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
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Healable and multi driving mode soft actuator enabled by disulfide-bonded liquid crystal elastomers

S Zhang, Z Wang, J Zhang, J Liu, C Sun, S Qin… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to the great potential in many applications, multi-responsive soft actuators as a kind of
smart materials have attracted great interest from the scientific community. Liquid crystal …