Buckling of Elastomeric Beams Enables Actuation of Soft Machines

Advanced Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 41, 2015, Pages 6323-6327

  Yang, Dian ^a,b   Mosadegh, Bobak ^a,c   Ainla, Alar ^a   Lee, Benjamin ^a   Khashai, Fatemeh ^a   Suo, Zhigang ^b,c   Bertoldi, Katia ^b,c   Whitesides, George M ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

buckling; pneumatic actuation; rotary motion; soft actuators; soft machines

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BUCKLING; PNEUMATICS;

ELASTIC BEAM ELEMENTS; NEW MECHANISMS; PNEUMATIC ACTUATION; PNEUMATIC PRESSURE; ROTARY MOTIONS; ROTATIONAL MOTION; SOFT ACTUATORS; SOFT MACHINE;

PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS;

ELASTOMERIC; POLYMER;

CHEMISTRY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PRESSURE; ROBOTICS;

MOVEMENT; POLYMERS; PRESSURE; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84946028731     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201503188     Document Type: Article

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