Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Soft material for soft actuators

  • Aslan Miriyev,
  • Kenneth Stack,
  • Hod Lipson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00685-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The development of self-contained electrically driven soft actuators with high strain density is difficult. Here the authors show a single self-contained soft robust composite material that combines the elastic properties of a polymeric matrix and the extreme volume change accompanying liquid vapour transition.