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Stimulus-driven liquid metal and liquid crystal network actuators for programmable soft robotics

Published:2021 Issue:9 Volume:8 Page:2475-2484
ISSN:2051-6347
Container-title:Materials Horizons
language:en
Short-container-title:Mater. Horiz.

Author:

Lv Pengfei¹,Yang Xiao¹,Bisoyi Hari Krishna²^ORCID,Zeng Hao³,Zhang Xuan¹,Chen Yuanhao¹,Xue Pan¹,Shi Shukuan¹,Priimagi Arri³^ORCID,Wang Ling¹^ORCID,Feng Wei¹⁴⁵^ORCID,Li Quan²⁶^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China

2. Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA

3. Smart Photonic Materials, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, P.O. Box 541, Tampere, FI-33101, Finland

4. Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin 300350, P. R. China

5. Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Mold, Ministry of Education, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China

6. Institute of Advanced Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Biomedical Research, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China

Abstract

Shape-programmable soft actuators are developed through the integration of electrically conductive liquid metals with shape-morphing liquid crystal networks. Their applications in light-fueled oscillator, crawler and programmable robotic Shadow Play are demonstrated.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

National Key Research and Development Program of China

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

Academy of Finland

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Process Chemistry and Technology,Mechanics of Materials,General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/MH/D1MH00623A

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