supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52373280,52177014,51977009,52273257)。
Polymeric microwave actuators combining tissue-like softness with programmablemicrowave-responsive deformation hold great promise for mobile intelligentdevices and bionic soft robots. However, their application is cha...
supported by Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology Key Research and Development Program in High-Tech Fields(2022YFG0240).
Pneumatic soft robots have undergone significant advancements in recent years.However,the majority of robot motion control still relies on electronic computers to regulate the valves and air pumps.Despite the potentia...
financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U1637101);The Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control for Aerospace Structures(1005-ZAG23011).
As a kind of ionic artificial muscle material,Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites(IPMCs)have the advantages of a low drive current,light weight,and significant flexibility.IPMCs are widely used in the fields of biomedicine...
financially supported by Jiangsu Innovation Team Program;Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities;National Natural Science Foundation of China (52373173and 52003050);the“Zhishan”Scholars Programs of Southeast University。
As future soft robotic devices necessitate a level of complexity surpassing current standards,a new design approach is needed that integrates multiple systems necessary to synchronize the motions of soft actuators and...
financed through funding from ATTRACT,a European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation project under grant agreement No.101004462.
The powerful resource of parallelizing simple devices for realizing and enhancing complex operations comes with the drawback of multiple connections for addressing and controlling the individual elements.Here we repor...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81572187,No.81871812 and No.52205590);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK20220834);project supported by Ruihua Charity Foundation(YL20220525);the Start-up Research Fund of Southeast University(No.RF1028623098).
Disorders of the musculoskeletal system are the major contributors to the global burden of disease and current treatments show limited efficacy.Patients often suffer chronic pain and might eventually have to undergo e...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2020YFA0711700);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U19A2087,52172134,52102150);the Science and Technology Innovation Program of Hunan Province(No.2022RC1029).
3D printing of flexible piezoelectric composites(3D-FPCs)is increasingly attracting the attention due to its unique advantage for customized smart applications.However,current research mainly focuses on the 0-3 piezoe...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51803115 and 21636006);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Nos.GK201901001,2021CSLY008,2021CSZL003 and GK202103032);the Innovation Capability Support Program of Shaanxi(No.2020TD-024)。
Developing hydroscopic actuators with simultaneous high elasticity,shape programmability and tunable actuating behaviors are highly desired but still challenging.In this study,we propose an orthogonal composite design...
supported by Sichuan Science and Technology Program(2022ZHCG0122);the NSAF project(U2230120);Youth Science and Technology Innovation Team of Sichuan Province of Functional Polymer Composites(2021JDTD0009);the Key Researched Development Program of Sichuan Province(2022YFG0271).
For improving the actuation performance at low electric fields of dielectric elastomers,achieving high dielectric constant(εr)and low modulus(Y)simultaneously has been targeted in the past decades,but there are few w...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.U23A20554 and 52371158);the Key Research and Development Program of Shan dong Province(No.2021ZLGX01);Taishan Scholar Foundation of Shandong Province,the Natural Science Foundation of Shan dong Province(No.ZR2022QB169);the Excellent Youth Science Fund Project of Shan dong Province(Overseas)(No.2023HWYQ-018);the Postdoctoral Science foundation of China(No.2022M710077)。
Bulk nanoporous(np)metallic actuators have attracted increasing attention due to their large strain and low stimulation voltage.However,studies focusing upon the combined effect of composition and structure on the act...