Magneto-rheological elastomers (MREs) are functional materials that can be actuated by
applying an external magnetic field. MREs comprise a composite of hard magnetic particles …

Hexagonal ring origami is a type of foldable structure that has impressive packing abilities
and can be tessellated into two-dimensional or three-dimensional surfaces without any gap …

Hard-magnetic soft materials have attracted broad interests because of their flexible
programmability, non-contact activation and rapid response in various applications such as …

Magneto-responsive smart structures can produce large deformation and realize the remote
non-contact control driven by the magnetic field, which are widely applied in a lot of …

This paper establishes an analytical method for the wrinkling of compressible magnetic soft
(MS) plates subject to an in-plane biaxial stretching and an out-of-plane magnetic induction …

This work presents a geometrically exact Kirchhoff-like electroelastic rod theory wherein the
contribution of free space energy is also factored in. In addition to the usual mechanical …

Cardiovascular disease seriously affects the health and life quality of human being in
nowadays society. In this paper, a new type of ferromagnetic soft continuum robot (FSCR) is …

Elasto-capillarity phenomena are prevalent in various industrial fields such as mechanical
engineering, material science, aerospace, soft robotics, and biomedicine. In this study, two …

Equilibrium shapes of magnetic rods and their stability under the action of an applied field
are analyzed. The family of shapes is characterized by two magnetoelastic numbers due to …

Hexagonal and hexagon-based structures are widely seen in nature and inspire various
engineering designs by demonstrating the capabilities of tessellating complex two …