Liquid Metal-Conductive Thermoplastic Elastomer Integration for Low-Voltage Stiffness Tuning

Design of flat pneumatic artificial muscles

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Bioinspired Robotic Fingers Based on Pneumatic Actuator and 3D Printing of Smart Material

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Foams: Morphing Metal and Elastomer Bicontinuous Foams for Reversible Stiffness, Shape Memory, and Self-Healing Soft Machines (Adv. Mater. 14/2016)

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Gallium Adhesion: Phase Change of Gallium Enables Highly Reversible and Switchable Adhesion (Adv. Mater. 25/2016)

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Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self-Healing Capability

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Rigidity-tuning conductive elastomer

(2015) Wanliang Shan et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Tape Transfer Atomization Patterning of Liquid Alloys for Microfluidic Stretchable Wireless Power Transfer

(2015) Seung Hee Jeong et al.   Scientific Reports

Microfluidic Thermally Activated Materials for Rapid Control of Macroscopic Compliance

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Artificial Muscles from Fishing Line and Sewing Thread

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Enabling variable-stiffness hand rehabilitation orthoses with dielectric elastomer transducers

(2013) Federico Carpi et al.   MEDICAL ENGINEERING & PHYSICS

Soft-matter composites with electrically tunable elastic rigidity

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Variable stiffness material based on rigid low-melting-point-alloy microstructures embedded in soft poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS)

(2013) Bryan E. Schubert et al.   RSC Advances

The diversity of hydrostatic skeletons

(2012) W. M. Kier   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Tunable elastic stiffness with microconfined magnetorheological domains at low magnetic field

(2010) Carmel Majidi et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Segmented Reinforcement Variable Stiffness Materials for Reconfigurable Surfaces

(2010) Geoffrey Mcknight et al.   JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES

Universal robotic gripper based on the jamming of granular material

(2010) E. Brown et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reversible dry micro-fibrillar adhesives with thermally controllable adhesion

(2009) Seok Kim et al.   Soft Matter

Variable Stiffness Structures Utilizing Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composites

(2008) Ying Shan et al.   JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES

Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Nanocomposites Inspired by the Sea Cucumber Dermis

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