Issue 19, 2018, Issue in Progress

Multiresponsive actuators based on modified electrospun films

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.

Graphical abstract: Multiresponsive actuators based on modified electrospun films

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 Dec 2017
Accepted
07 Mar 2018
First published
14 Mar 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2018,8, 10302-10309

Multiresponsive actuators based on modified electrospun films

L. Han, J. Xu, S. Wang, N. Yuan and J. Ding, RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 10302 DOI: 10.1039/C7RA13384G

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