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Fabrication of Carbon-Based Ionic Electromechanically Active Soft Actuators
Published on: April 25, 2020
Multiresponsive actuators based on modified electrospun films
Libiao Han1,2, Jiang Xu1, Shuai Wang1
1Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering, Jiangsu Province Cultivation Base for State Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic Science and Technology, Changzhou University Changzhou 213164 Jiangsu China dingjn@cczu.edu.cn nyyuan@cczu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Robot technology has made great progress over the past few decades, and has found wide use in military, industrial and service fields. In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the demand for soft robots. However, as a key part, the development of soft actuators capable of low-energy actuation, multi-stimulation response, and large shape deformation is still challenging. In this work, we fabricated multiresponsive actuators based on modified electrospun films. The actuators provided the largest curvatures of 0.83 cm-1, 0.6 cm-1, and 1.05 cm-1, stimulated by humidity, light, and electricity, respectively. Furthermore, we designed a biomimetic application-a crawling robot-which demonstrates excellent potential applications of the actuator in soft robotics, artificial muscles, and the biomimetics field.
