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A blister-like soft nano-textured thermo-pneumatic actuator as an artificial muscle

Published:2018 Issue:35 Volume:10 Page:16591-16600
ISSN:2040-3364
Container-title:Nanoscale
language:en
Short-container-title:Nanoscale

Author:

An Seongpil¹²³⁴^ORCID,Kang Dong Jin¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Yarin Alexander L.¹²³⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

2. University of Illinois at Chicago

3. Chicago

4. USA

5. INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials

Abstract

A blister-like thermo-pneumatic soft actuator (BTSA) is developed as a bio-inspired device (the artificial muscle deflecting scales, spines and fur fibers). It holds great promise for biomedical applications where artificially grown skin patches should be removed from an underlying substrate without being damaged. The fabrication process of the BTSA is simple, and inexpensive.

Funder

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2018/NR/C8NR04181D

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