执行机构
可伸缩电子设备
纳米-
数码产品
智能材料
材料科学
气动执行机构
工程类
纳米技术
电气工程
复合材料
作者
Rui Guo,Hongzhang Wang,Minghui Duan,Wenzhuo Yu,Xiangjiang Wang,Jing Liu
标识
DOI:10.1088/1361-665x/aacbf6
摘要
Flexible pneumatic actuators have been widely used in robotics and automation with various advantages in desirable compliance and degrees of freedom. As we know, stretchable electronics can be utilized to produce smart soft robots and actuators. To date, there are still rather limited explorations regarding the soft conductive materials for flexible actuators. Here we developed a smart flexible pneumatic actuator (SFPA) applying stretchable electronics based on Nano-Fe GaIn amalgams, which preserve good conductivity (2.0 × 106 S m−1) and can be printed on the PDMS and Ecoflex substrates easily. Specially, the Nano-Fe GaIn amalgams are printed on two different elastic materials (PDMS and Ecoflex) and serve as stretchable conductors and bending sensors respectively. Asymmetry elasticity of two materials results in bending of the soft robot, which is able to serve as the actuator. This method showcases the simple manufacture process, low cost, rapid customization in stretchable electronics for smart soft actuators. The SFPA demonstrates potential applications in diverse fields like multifunctional devices, flexible manipulator and biomedical devices.
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