Multiresponsive Bidirectional Bending Actuators Fabricated by a Pencil‐on‐Paper Method

M Weng, P Zhou, L Chen, L Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, actuating materials based on carbon nanotubes or graphene have been widely
studied. However, present carbon‐based actuating materials are mostly driven by a single …

Multifunctional soft actuators based on anisotropic paper/polymer bilayer toward bioinspired applications

Y Hu, A Xu, J Liu, L Yang, L Chang… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Designing artificial muscle actuators with diversely complex deformation and multifunction is
crucial to the soft robots and their bioinspired applications. Herein, by combing the …

Humidity-and light-driven actuators based on carbon nanotube-coated paper and polymer composite

P Zhou, L Chen, L Yao, M Weng, W Zhang - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Multi-responsive actuators driven by different stimuli (eg light, humidity, electricity) have
attracted intense attention recently for the advantages of being used in various environments …

Multi-responsive and multi-motion bimorph actuator based on super-aligned carbon nanotube sheets

J Li, L Mou, R Zhang, J Sun, R Wang, B An, H Chen… - Carbon, 2019 - Elsevier
Multi-responsive actuators have recently aroused intensive research for the requirements of
being used in various environments. However, their actuation performances are generally …

Electrically and sunlight‐driven actuator with versatile biomimetic motions based on rolled carbon nanotube bilayer composite

Y Hu, J Liu, L Chang, L Yang, A Xu, K Qi… - Advanced Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Designing multistimuli responsive soft actuators which can mimic advanced and
sophisticated biological movements through simple configuration is highly demanded for the …

Multi-responsive actuators based on a graphene oxide composite: intelligent robot and bioinspired applications

L Chen, M Weng, P Zhou, L Zhang, Z Huang, W Zhang - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon-based electrothermal or photothermal actuators have attracted intense attention
recently. They can directly convert electrical or light energy into thermal energy and exhibit …

A powerful dual-responsive soft actuator and photo-to-electric generator based on graphene micro-gasbags for bioinspired applications

L Yang, K Qi, L Chang, A Xu, Y Hu, H Zhai… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft actuators with large deformation and high output force in response to multi-stimuli are
highly demanded for the development of biomimetic applications. Here, a bilayer actuator …

A 4D printing strategy and integrated design for programmable electroactive shape-color double-responsive bionic functions

D Chen, Q Liu, P Geng, S Tang, J Zhang, S Wen… - … Science and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
The extraordinary potential of 4D printing regarding shape-changing, property-changing and
functionality-changing could be widely utilized in the biomedical, aerospace, and robotics …

Large-strain, multiform movements from designable electrothermal actuators based on large highly anisotropic carbon nanotube sheets

Q Li, C Liu, YH Lin, L Liu, K Jiang, S Fan - ACS nano, 2015 - ACS Publications
Many electroactive polymer (EAP) actuators use diverse configurations of carbon nanotubes
(CNTs) as pliable electrodes to realize discontinuous, agile movements, for CNTs are …

High-performance, low-voltage, and easy-operable bending actuator based on aligned carbon nanotube/polymer composites

L Chen, C Liu, K Liu, C Meng, C Hu, J Wang, S Fan - ACS nano, 2011 - ACS Publications
In this work, we show that embedding super-aligned carbon nanotube sheets into a polymer
matrix (polydimethylsiloxane) can remarkably reduce the coefficient of thermal expansion of …