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Soft Actuation of Structured Cylinders through Auxetic Behavior
We introduce a new class of soft actuators based on the buckling of locally patterned elastic cylindrical shells that can be designed to reversibly achieve flexural or twisting motion. Depressurizing our samples allows for tunable and controllable motion. Given that the deformation is primarily governed by geometry and elasticity, the resulting modes of actuation should be readily scalable.
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research article
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Publication date
2015
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Published in
Volume
17
Issue
6
Start page
815
End page
820
Peer reviewed
REVIEWED
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January 18, 2018
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