1. Electronically Programmable, Reversible Shape Change in Two- and Three-Dimensional Hydrogel Structures
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Peixi Yuan, John A. Rogers, Yewang Su, Xun Zhang, Yuhang Li, Lenore L. Dai, Cunjiang Yu, Zheng Duan, Hanqing Jiang, Yuping Pan, Yonggang Huang, and Ralph G. Nuzzo
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Acrylamides ,Materials science ,Shape change ,Polymers ,Mechanical Engineering ,Soft actuator ,Acrylic Resins ,Temperature ,Hydrogel, Polyethylene Glycol Dimethacrylate ,Mechanics of Materials ,visual_art ,Electrode ,Self-healing hydrogels ,visual_art.visual_art_medium ,General Materials Science ,Polygon mesh ,Dimethylpolysiloxanes ,Electronics ,Composite material ,Thermal analysis ,Electrodes ,Acrylic resin - Abstract
Combining compliant electrode arrays in open-mesh constructs with hydrogels yields a class of soft actuator, capable of complex, programmable changes in shape. The results include materials strategies, integration approaches, and mechanical/thermal analysis of heater meshes embedded in thermoresponsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (pNIPAM) hydrogels with forms ranging from 2D sheets to 3D hemispherical shells.
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- 2012
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