Recent Advances in Bioinspired Soft Robots: Fabrication, Actuation, Tracking, and Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 9(21)

Опубликована: Апрель 30, 2024

Abstract Natural organisms offer a rich source for the construction of soft robots exhibiting autonomous and intelligent behaviors, encompassing attributes like motion, perception, adaptability to environmental shifts. Drawing inspiration from these biological models, multitude have emerged, each distinguished by unique structures functionalities enabling diverse actions, including swimming, crawling, swinging, walking, tumbling. In this review, several their motion modes perspective specific native species are addressed. The actuation methods discussed, chemical, electrical, ultrasonic, optical, magnetic mechanisms. Furthermore, application domains robots, areas such as vessel recanalization, targeted drug delivery, cargo manipulation, sensing explored, providing concise summary roles potentials. current challenges encountered in research field highlighted, promising directions pertaining emphasized.

Язык: Английский

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Chemical programming for micro- and nanoarchitectonics of 3D/4D-printed thermoelectric materials

Nano Today, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 61, С. 102658 - 102658

Опубликована: Фев. 11, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Tuned flexibility with phenethyl esters plasticized polylactic acid

Materials Today Communications, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 112437 - 112437

Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Machine Learning in 3D and 4D Printing of Polymer Composites: A Review

Polymers, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 16(22), С. 3125 - 3125

Опубликована: Ноя. 8, 2024

The emergence of 3D and 4D printing has transformed the field polymer composites, facilitating fabrication complex structures. As these manufacturing techniques continue to progress, integration machine learning (ML) is widely utilized enhance aspects processes. This includes optimizing material properties, refining process parameters, predicting performance outcomes, enabling real-time monitoring. paper aims provide an overview recent applications ML in composites. By highlighting intersection technologies, this seeks identify existing trends challenges, outline future directions.

Язык: Английский

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Electrothermally activated soft materials: Mechanisms, methods and applications

Progress in Materials Science, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 101406 - 101406

Опубликована: Ноя. 1, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Magnetic poly(ionic liquid)/graphene oxide/Fe3O4 composites with multiple loss mechanisms for microwave absorbing

Reactive and Functional Polymers, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 202, С. 105948 - 105948

Опубликована: Май 28, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Scalable Fabrication of Flexible Thermoelectric Generator with Non-Toxic Ga:ZnO and PEDOT:PSS Thermoelements for Wearable Energy Harvesting

Materials Today Communications, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 111225 - 111225

Опубликована: Дек. 1, 2024

Язык: Английский

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