Bistable and multistable actuators for soft robots: Structures, materials, and functionalities

Y Chi, Y Li, Y Zhao, Y Hong, Y Tang… - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Snap‐through bistability is often observed in nature (eg, fast snapping to closure of Venus
flytrap) and the life (eg, bottle caps and hair clippers). Recently, harnessing bistability and …

Advances in flexible sensors for intelligent perception system enhanced by artificial intelligence

H Niu, F Yin, ES Kim, W Wang, DY Yoon, C Wang… - InfoMat, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Intelligent perception means that with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI)‐motivated
brain, flexible sensors achieve the ability of memory, learning, judgment, and reasoning …

Angle-programmed tendril-like trajectories enable a multifunctional gripper with ultradelicacy, ultrastrength, and ultraprecision

Y Hong, Y Zhao, J Berman, Y Chi, Y Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Achieving multicapability in a single soft gripper for handling ultrasoft, ultrathin, and
ultraheavy objects is challenging due to the tradeoff between compliance, strength, and …

[HTML][HTML] Soft electronics for health monitoring assisted by machine learning

Y Qiao, J Luo, T Cui, H Liu, H Tang, Y Zeng, C Liu… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
Due to the development of the novel materials, the past two decades have witnessed the
rapid advances of soft electronics. The soft electronics have huge potential in the physical …

Physics-aware differentiable design of magnetically actuated kirigami for shape morphing

L Wang, Y Chang, S Wu, RR Zhao, W Chen - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Shape morphing that transforms morphologies in response to stimuli is crucial for future
multifunctional systems. While kirigami holds great promise in enhancing shape-morphing …

Machine learning assisted design of shape-programmable 3D kirigami metamaterials

NA Alderete, N Pathak, HD Espinosa - npj Computational Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Kirigami-engineering has become an avenue for realizing multifunctional metamaterials that
tap into the instability landscape of planar surfaces embedded with cuts. Recently, it has …

Mechanical Fourier transform for programmable metamaterials

X Lin, F Pan, Y Ma, Y Wei, K Yang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Proactively programming materials toward target nonlinear mechanical behaviors is crucial
to realize customizable functions for advanced devices and systems, which arouses …

Kirigami‐inspired programmable soft magnetoresponsive actuators with versatile morphing modes

H Zhu, Y Wang, Y Ge, Y Zhao, C Jiang - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Untethered soft magnetoresponsive actuators (SMRAs), which can realize rapid shape
transformation, have attracted widespread attention for their strategic applications in …

Engineering Kirigami Frameworks Toward Real‐World Applications

L Jin, S Yang - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The surge in advanced manufacturing techniques has led to a paradigm shift in the realm of
material design from developing completely new chemistry to tailoring geometry within …

[HTML][HTML] Crystallographically programmed kirigami metamaterials

R He, Y Chen, J Liang, Y Sun, J Feng… - Journal of the Mechanics …, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, lattice kirigami metamaterials have attracted considerable attention due to
their unconventional and often intriguing mechanical properties. However, the absence of a …