Issue 12, 2019

Butterfly proboscis-inspired tight rolling tapered soft actuators

Abstract

Liquid crystalline networks have been fashioned into thin films with tapered thicknesses, revealing the possibility of rolling up extremely tightly when triggered thermally or with light. Compared to the often limited bending shown previously in liquid crystal network actuators, these tapered films curl up several hundreds of degrees. Finite element results of simulated functionally graded thin films with tapered thicknesses corroborate well with experimental work.

Graphical abstract: Butterfly proboscis-inspired tight rolling tapered soft actuators

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
14 Dec 2018
Accepted
08 Jan 2019
First published
15 Jan 2019
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Commun., 2019,55, 1726-1729

Butterfly proboscis-inspired tight rolling tapered soft actuators

J. A. H. P. Sol, A. R. Peeketi, N. Vyas, A. P. H. J. Schenning, R. K. Annabattula and M. G. Debije, Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 1726 DOI: 10.1039/C8CC09915D

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