Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 23, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23073790
Keywords
additive manufacturing; soft materials; bionics; soft robotics; flexible electronics; biomedical engineering
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [61933008, 61873307]
- Joint Fund of Science and Technology Department of Liaoning Province
- State Key Laboratory of Robotics [2020-KF-22-07]
- XSC foundation
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With the advancement of technology, especially the rise of additive manufacturing, bionics has gradually become a popular research field. Soft robotics, which can mimic the complex movements of animals and integrate and control with human tissue, has attracted researchers' attention. The applications of 3D printed soft matter in bionics, soft robotics, flexible electronics, and biomedical engineering have been reviewed.
The evolution of nature created delicate structures and organisms. With the advancement of technology, especially the rise of additive manufacturing, bionics has gradually become a popular research field. Recently, researchers have concentrated on soft robotics, which can mimic the complex movements of animals by allowing continuous and often responsive local deformations. These properties give soft robots advantages in terms of integration and control with human tissue. The rise of additive manufacturing technologies and soft matters makes the fabrication of soft robots with complex functions such as bending, twisting, intricate 3D motion, grasping, and stretching possible. In this paper, the advantages and disadvantages of the additive manufacturing process, including fused deposition modeling, direct ink writing, inkjet printing, stereolithography, and selective laser sintering, are discussed. The applications of 3D printed soft matter in bionics, soft robotics, flexible electronics, and biomedical engineering are reviewed.
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