Advances in soft robotics, materials science, and stretchable electronics have enabled rapid
progress in soft grippers. Here, a critical overview of soft robotic grippers is presented …

Calculations of the impact of friction and wear on energy consumption, economic
expenditure, and CO 2 emissions are presented on a global scale. This impact study covers …

Ice accretion may cause malfunction or serious performance degradation in outdoor facilities
and structures, such as aircraft, ship, locks and dams, offshore platforms, solar panels, wind …

Résumé A highly versatile soft gripper that can handle an unprecedented range of object
types is developed based on a new design of dielectric elastomer actuators employing an …

This Review aims to be a comprehensive, authoritative, and critical review of general
interest to the chemistry community (both academia and industry) as it contains an extensive …

Reentrant feature widely exists in natural structures ranging from mushroom, overhang,
undercut, trapezoid, sphere, spatula and taper to sharp edge, and has triggered a …

Nanotextured surfaces (NTSs) are critical to organisms as self-adaptation and survival tools.
These NTSs have been actively mimicked in the process of develo** bactericidal surfaces …

In nature, millions of creatures, such as geckos, tree frogs, octopuses, etc., have evolved
fantastic switchable adhesion capabilities to climb swiftly on vertical even inverted surfaces …

Interactions induced by electromagnetic fluctuations, such as van der Waals and Casimir
forces, are of universal nature present at any length scale between any types of systems …

In this study, carbon nanofibers (CNFs) were uniformly dispersed into cement-based
materials by the ultrasonic dispersion method to prepare cement-based materials modified …