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Materials for Smart Soft Actuator Systems

Title data

Apsite, Indra ; Salehi, Sahar ; Ionov, Leonid:
Materials for Smart Soft Actuator Systems.
In: Chemical Reviews. Vol. 122 (2022) Issue 1 . - pp. 1349-1415.
ISSN 0009-2665
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00453

Official URL: Volltext

Project information

Project financing: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
DFG Grant No. IO 68/10-1
DFG Grant No. IO 68/11-1
DFG Grant No. SA 3575/1-1
DFG Grant No. Projektnummer 326998133-TRR 225 (subproject B03)

Abstract in another language

In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living systems. These properties make them particularly promising for different applications, including soft electronics, surgery, drug delivery, artificial organs, or prosthesis. The additional degree of freedom for soft actuatoric devices can be provided through the use of intelligent materials, which are able to change their structure, macroscopic properties, and shape under the influence of external signals. The use of such intelligent materials allows a substantial reduction of a device’s size, which enables a number of applications that cannot be realized by externally powered systems. This review aims to provide an overview of the properties of intelligent synthetic and living/natural materials used for the fabrication of soft robotic devices. We discuss basic physical/chemical properties of the main kinds of materials (elastomers, gels, shape memory polymers and gels, liquid crystalline elastomers, semicrystalline ferroelectric polymers, gels and hydrogels, other swelling polymers, materials with volume change during melting/crystallization, materials with tunable mechanical properties, and living and naturally derived materials), how they are related to actuation and soft robotic application, and effects of micro/macro structures on shape transformation, fabrication methods, and we highlight selected applications.

Further data

Item Type: Article in a journal
Refereed: Yes
Institutions of the University: Faculties > Faculty of Engineering Science > Professor Biofabrication
Faculties > Faculty of Engineering Science > Professor Biofabrication > Professor Biofabrication - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Leonid Ionov
Faculties
Faculties > Faculty of Engineering Science
Result of work at the UBT: Yes
DDC Subjects: 500 Science > 500 Natural sciences
500 Science > 530 Physics
500 Science > 540 Chemistry
Date Deposited: 19 Jan 2022 09:27
Last Modified: 20 Jan 2022 14:10
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/68414