Materials for smart soft actuator systems

I Apsite, S Salehi, L Ionov - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such
as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …

Advances in high‐performance autonomous energy and self‐powered sensing textiles with novel 3D fabric structures

K Dong, X Peng, R Cheng, C Ning, Y Jiang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The seamless integration of emerging triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) technology with
traditional wearable textile materials has given birth to the next‐generation smart textiles, ie …

Twisting for soft intelligent autonomous robot in unstructured environments

Y Zhao, Y Chi, Y Hong, Y Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Soft robots that can harvest energy from environmental resources for autonomous
locomotion is highly desired; however, few are capable of adaptive navigation without …

Towards enduring autonomous robots via embodied energy

CA Aubin, B Gorissen, E Milana, PR Buskohl… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Autonomous robots comprise actuation, energy, sensory and control systems built from
materials and structures that are not necessarily designed and integrated for …

Bioinspired shape memory hydrogel artificial muscles driven by solvents

Y Cui, D Li, C Gong, C Chang - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Although hydrogels containing large amounts of water are similar to natural muscles, they
are a challenge to be used in artificial muscles because of their poor mechanical properties …

Artificial muscles: Mechanisms, applications, and challenges

SM Mirvakili, IW Hunter - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The area of artificial muscle is a highly interdisciplinary field of research that has evolved
rapidly in the last 30 years. Recent advances in nanomaterial fabrication and …