Elastomeric origami: Programmable paper-elastomer composites as pneumatic actuators

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1376-1384

  Martinez, Ramses V ^a   Fish, Carina R ^a   Chen, Xin ^a   Whitesides, George M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

composite materials; origami; pneumatic actuators; soft robotics

Indexed keywords

3D STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS; FIBER STRUCTURES; FOLDED STRUCTURES; ORIGAMI; PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN; RANGE OF MOTIONS; SOFT ACTUATORS;

ANISOTROPY; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELASTOMERS; PLASTICS; PNEUMATIC EQUIPMENT;

PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 84859611355     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201102978     Document Type: Article

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