Magnetic soft robots: Design, actuation, and function

H Wang, Z Zhu, H Jin, R Wei, L Bi, W Zhang - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Driven by advances in soft material science, magnetic soft robots have recently attracted
significant attention owing to their remarkable reprogramming deformations under magnetic …

Theoretical modeling of magnetoactive elastomers on different scales: a state-of-the-art review

TA Nadzharyan, M Shamonin, EY Kramarenko - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
A review of the latest theoretical advances in the description of magnetomechanical effects
and phenomena observed in magnetoactive elastomers (MAEs), ie, polymer networks filled …

The Modeling of Magnetorheological Elastomers: A State‐of‐the‐Art Review

A Saber, R Sedaghati - Advanced Engineering Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) are novel multifunctional materials wherein
their viscoelastic properties can be varied instantly under an application of applied magnetic …

Magneto-mechanical enhancement of elastic moduli in magnetoactive elastomers with anisotropic microstructures

S Chougale, D Romeis, M Saphiannikova - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Magnetoactive elastomers (MAEs) have gained significant attention in recent years due to
their wide range of engineering applications. This paper investigates the important interplay …

Magnetically switchable adhesion and friction of soft magnetoactive elastomers

A Kovalev, IA Belyaeva, C von Hofen… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, the effect of an applied moderate (≈ 240 mT) magnetic field on the work of adhesion
(WoA) of mechanically soft (the shear modulus≈ 10 kPa) magnetoactive elastomer (MAE) …

Magneto-mechanical coupling in magneto-active elastomers

P Metsch, D Romeis, KA Kalina, A Raßloff… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the present work, the magneto-mechanical coupling in magneto-active elastomers is
investigated from two different modeling perspectives: a micro-continuum and a particle …

Dynamically tunable lamellar surface structures from magnetoactive elastomers driven by a uniform magnetic field

I Straus, G Kokot, G Kravanja, L Hribar, R Kriegl… - Soft matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Stimuli responsive materials are key ingredients for any application that requires
dynamically tunable or on-demand responses. In this work we report experimental and …

Manipulating the shape of flexible magnetic nanodisks with meronlike magnetic states

B Miranda-Silva, PHC Taveira, AW Teixeira… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The control of the magnetic properties of shapeable devices and the manipulation of flexible
structures by external magnetic fields is a keystone of future magnetoelectronics-based …

Tunable drop splashing on magnetoactive elastomers

G Kravanja, IA Belyaeva, L Hribar… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The significant effect of an external dc magnetic field on the splashing behavior of ethanol
drops impacting on the unstructured (flat) surface of soft magnetoactive elastomers (MAEs) …

[HTML][HTML] Field stiffening: A way to break the bounds on the properties of composites

D Yan, T Wang, J Wang, LH Shao - Composites Part A: Applied Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
It is common practice for humans to enhance the stiffness of a material by adding stiffer
ingredients into it, which leads to the development of various composites of wide …