Hydraulic hydrogel actuators and robots optically and sonically camouflaged in water

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Yuk, Hyunwoo ^a   Lin, Shaoting ^a   Ma, Chu ^a   Takaffoli, Mahdi ^a   Fang, Nicolas X ^a   Zhao, Xuanhe ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; EEL; EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ROBOTICS; WATER;

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; FISH; HYDRAULIC HYDROGEL; HYDROGEL; OPTICS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PRESSURE; ROBOTICS; SWIMMING; WATER CONTENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 85011339605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14230     Document Type: Article

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