A review of 3D printing technologies for soft polymer materials

LY Zhou, J Fu, Y He - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Soft polymer materials, which are similar to human tissues, have played critical roles in
modern interdisciplinary research. Compared with conventional methods, 3D printing allows …

Liquid metal patterning and unique properties for next‐generation soft electronics

M Kim, H Lim, SH Ko - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Room‐temperature liquid metal (LM)‐based electronics is expected to bring advancements
in future soft electronics owing to its conductivity, conformability, stretchability, and …

Liquid metal direct write and 3D printing: a review

TV Neumann, MD Dickey - Advanced Materials Technologies, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This review discusses methods, challenges, and opportunities for direct‐write and 3D
printing of low melting point, gallium‐based liquid metal alloys at room temperature. Alloys …

3D/4D-printed bending-type soft pneumatic actuators: Fabrication, modelling, and control

A Zolfagharian, MAP Mahmud, S Gharaie… - Virtual and Physical …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This article reviews soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) that are manufactured entirely via
additive manufacturing methods. These actuators are known as four-dimensional (4D) …

[HTML][HTML] Closed-loop 4D-printed soft robots

A Zolfagharian, A Kaynak, A Kouzani - Materials & Design, 2020 - Elsevier
Soft robotics is a recent and rapidly growing field of research that encompasses emerging
advances in functional materials, fabrication, modelling, and performance control with …

All‐printed flexible and stretchable electronics with pressing or freezing activatable liquid‐metal–silicone inks

L Zhou, J Fu, Q Gao, P Zhao… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Liquid‐metal (LM)‐based flexible and stretchable electronics have attracted
widespread interest in wearable computing, human–machine interaction, and soft robotics …

Multimaterial 3D printing of highly stretchable silicone elastomers

L Zhou, Q Gao, J Fu, Q Chen, J Zhu… - ACS applied materials …, 2019 - ACS Publications
3D printing of silicone elastomers with the direct ink writing (DIW) process has demonstrated
great potential in areas as diverse as flexible electronics, medical devices, and soft robotics …

Multifunctional liquid metal polymer composites

GG Guymon, MH Malakooti - Journal of Polymer Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid metal polymer composites are an emerging class of functional materials with
potentially transformative impacts in wearable electronics, soft robotics, and human …

High-fidelity conformal printing of 3D liquid alloy circuits for soft electronics

S Zhang, B Wang, J Jiang, K Wu… - ACS applied materials …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Owing to the great deformability from fluid, liquid alloy-based soft electronics has inherent
advantages over rigid-based ones for applications such as stretchable intelligence or soft …

Control-based 4D printing: Adaptive 4D-printed systems

A Zolfagharian, A Kaynak, M Bodaghi, AZ Kouzani… - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Building on the recent progress of four-dimensional (4D) printing to produce dynamic
structures, this study aimed to bring this technology to the next level by introducing control …