Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Materials tactile logic via innervated soft thermochromic elastomers

  • Yang Jin,
  • Yiliang Lin,
  • Abolfazl Kiani,
  • Ishan D. Joshipura,
  • Mingqiao Ge,
  • Michael D. Dickey

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12161-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Designing bio-inspired computational features in soft systems without centralized processing remains challenging. Here, the authors propose a passive display based on thermochromic elastomers by leveraging Joule heating of embedded liquid metal wires by changing geometry in response to deformation.