Soft actuators for real-world applications

M Li, A Pal, A Aghakhani, A Pena-Francesch… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Inspired by physically adaptive, agile, reconfigurable and multifunctional soft-bodied
animals and human muscles, soft actuators have been developed for a variety of …

Multimaterial 3D and 4D bioprinting of heterogenous constructs for tissue engineering

A Chen, W Wang, Z Mao, Y He, S Chen… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Additive manufacturing (AM), which is based on the principle of layer‐by‐layer sha** and
stacking of discrete materials, has shown significant benefits in the fabrication of …

Highly Stretchable and Conductive MXene‐Encapsulated Liquid Metal Hydrogels for Bioinspired Self‐Sensing Soft Actuators

S Ma, P Xue, C Valenzuela, X Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced sensation and actuation abilities of various living organisms in nature have
inspired researchers to design bioinspired self‐sensing soft actuators. However, the majority …

Physically intelligent autonomous soft robotic maze escaper

Y Zhao, Y Hong, Y Li, F Qi, H Qing, H Su, J Yin - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Autonomous maze navigation is appealing yet challenging in soft robotics for exploring
priori unknown unstructured environments, as it often requires human-like brain that …

A moisture‐driven actuator based on polydopamine‐modified MXene/bacterial cellulose nanofiber composite film

L Yang, J Cui, L Zhang, X Xu, X Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As a new 2D material, MXene (Ti3C2Tx) shows great potential as a smart multifunctional
humidity‐responsive actuator due to its high hydrophilicity and conductivity but suffers from …

Bioinspired Intelligent Solar‐Responsive Thermally Conductive Pyramidal Phase Change Composites with Radially Oriented Layered Structures toward Efficient …

HY Zhao, C Shu, X Wang, P Min, C Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To remedy the drawbacks of weak solar‐thermal conversion capability, low thermal
conductivity, and poor structural stability of phase change materials, pyramidal graphitized …

Light-driven bimorph soft actuators: design, fabrication, and properties

Y Chen, J Yang, X Zhang, Y Feng, H Zeng, L Wang… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft robots that can move like living organisms and adapt to their surroundings are currently
in the limelight from fundamental studies to technological applications, due to their advances …

Highly‐Aligned All‐Fiber Actuator with Asymmetric Photothermal‐Humidity Response and Autonomous Perceptivity

Y Zhang, X Zhou, L Liu, S Wang, Y Zhang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robots adapt to complex environments for autonomous locomotion, manipulation, and
perception are attractive for robot‐environment interactions. Strategies to reconcile …

Soft shape-programmable surfaces by fast electromagnetic actuation of liquid metal networks

X Ni, H Luan, JT Kim, SI Rogge, Y Bai, JW Kwak… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Low modulus materials that can shape-morph into different three-dimensional (3D)
configurations in response to external stimuli have wide-ranging applications in …

A MXene‐Based Light‐Driven Actuator and Motor with Self‐Sustained Oscillation for Versatile Applications

J Liu, L Xu, Q Ji, L Chang, Y Hu… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Phototropism and self‐oscillation are both self‐regulating intelligent movements of
biological organisms. However, realizing these intelligent movements in one same artificial …