Fabrication and functionality integration technologies for small‐scale soft robots

S Zhang, X Ke, Q Jiang, Z Chai, Z Wu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Small‐scale soft robots are attracting increasing interest for visible and potential applications
owing to their safety and tolerance resulting from their intrinsic soft bodies or compliant …

Fabrication of micro-nano hierarchical grating using revolving trajectory of nanoindenter

J Wang, W Zhu, A Zhang, Y Yan, H Huang… - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2024 - Elsevier
Structural colors that generated by the interaction between incident light and micro-nano
structures are favored for their long-term stability and high saturation. Fabrication of micro …

A soft reconfigurable circulator enabled by magnetic liquid metal droplet for multifunctional control of soft robots

Y Xu, J Zhu, H Chen, H Yong, Z Wu - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Integrated control circuits with multiple computation functions are essential for soft robots to
achieve diverse complex real tasks. However, designing compliant yet simple circuits to …

Pneumatic enabled vertical interconnect access of liquid alloy circuits toward highly integrated stretchable electronics

Q Jiang, S Zhang, J Jiang, W Fei… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Multilayer circuits, particularly in stretchable electronics, are always considered as an
effective way to integrate diverse components and modules for advanced/powerful functions …

Dynamically conformal mask printing of liquid alloy circuits on morphing objects

S Zhang, J Jiang, Q Jiang, W Fei… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their excellent conformability and inherent compatibility, soft three‐dimensional (3D)
circuits can promisingly contribute to soft intelligent systems, ie, soft robots equipped with …

Thrombogenicity of microfluidic chip surface manipulation: Facile, one-step, none-protein technique for extreme wettability contrast micropatterning

Y Xu, P Deng, G Yu, X Ke, Y Lin, X Shu, Y **e… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Surface engineering of well-defined micro-nanoscale surface topographies on polymeric
materials of microfluidic chip has been explored as a promising strategy for platelet function …

Facile fabrication of sensitivity-tunable strain sensors based on laser-patterned micro-nano structures

S Zhang, W Fei, Q Jiang, J Jiang, K Shi… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Flexible/stretchable electronics have been well-developed in epidermal devices, wearable
electronic systems and soft robotics for physiological signal detecting, real-time health …

[HTML][HTML] Facile Fabrication of Hierarchical Structured Anodic Aluminum Oxide Molds for Large-Scale Production of Superhydrophobic Polymer Films

A Balasankar, R Venkatesan, DY Jeong, TH Oh… - Polymers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) molds were used for the production of large-area and
inexpensive superhydrophobic polymer films. A controlled anodization methodology was …

Shrinkage-considered mold design for improvement of micro/nano-structured optical element performance

M Kim, ES Oh, MK Kwak - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Polymer shrinkage in nano-imprint lithography (NIL) is one of the critical issues that must be
considered in order to produce a quality product. Especially, this condition should be …

A Sensitive Flexible Strain Sensor via Anisotropy Microstructured Sensitized Surface Resistive Change for Human Motion Monitoring

W Fei, S Zhang, Z Wu - 2021 IEEE 16th International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We reported here a sensitive flexible strain sensor via anisotropy microstructured sensitized
surface resistance change. The strain sensor consists of a flexible elastomer and a thin Ag …