Materials for smart soft actuator systems
In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such
as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …
as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …
[HTML][HTML] The shape–morphing performance of magnetoactive soft materials
AK Bastola, M Hossain - Materials & Design, 2021 - Elsevier
Magnetoactive soft materials (MSMs) are soft polymeric composites filled with magnetic
particles that are an emerging class of smart and multifunctional materials with immense …
particles that are an emerging class of smart and multifunctional materials with immense …
Locally controllable magnetic soft actuators with reprogrammable contraction-derived motions
Reprogrammable magneto-responsive soft actuators capable of working in enclosed and
confined spaces and adapting functions under changing situations are highly demanded for …
confined spaces and adapting functions under changing situations are highly demanded for …
Magnetic shape memory polymers with integrated multifunctional shape manipulation
Shape‐programmable soft materials that exhibit integrated multifunctional shape
manipulations, including reprogrammable, untethered, fast, and reversible shape …
manipulations, including reprogrammable, untethered, fast, and reversible shape …
[HTML][HTML] Multifunctional magnetic soft composites: A review
Magnetically responsive soft materials are soft composites where magnetic fillers are
embedded into soft polymeric matrices. These active materials have attracted extensive …
embedded into soft polymeric matrices. These active materials have attracted extensive …
Mechanical behaviors and applications of shape memory polymer and its composites
Shape memory polymer (SMP) and SMP composites (SMPC) can memorize the permanent
shape and recover from the temporary shape to the permanent shape when stimulated by …
shape and recover from the temporary shape to the permanent shape when stimulated by …
[HTML][HTML] Asymmetric elastoplasticity of stacked graphene assembly actualizes programmable untethered soft robotics
There is ever-increasing interest yet grand challenge in developing programmable
untethered soft robotics. Here we address this challenge by applying the asymmetric …
untethered soft robotics. Here we address this challenge by applying the asymmetric …
A dynamically reprogrammable surface with self-evolving shape morphing
Dynamic shape-morphing soft materials systems are ubiquitous in living organisms; they are
also of rapidly increasing relevance to emerging technologies in soft machines,–, flexible …
also of rapidly increasing relevance to emerging technologies in soft machines,–, flexible …
[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on soft robotics: multifunctionality, adaptability and growth without borders
Soft robotics aims at creating systems with improved performance of movement and
adaptability in unknown, challenging, environments and with higher level of safety during …
adaptability in unknown, challenging, environments and with higher level of safety during …
Liquid crystal elastomer–liquid metal composite: ultrafast, untethered, and programmable actuation by induction heating
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a class of stimuli‐responsive materials that have been
intensively studied for applications including artificial muscles, shape morphing structures …
intensively studied for applications including artificial muscles, shape morphing structures …