Bioinspired elastomer composites with programmed mechanical and electrical anisotropies.

ABSTRACT: Concepts that draw inspiration from soft biological tissues have enabled significant advances in creating artificial materials for a range of applications, such as dry adhesives, tissue engineering, biointegrated electronics, artificial muscles, and soft robots. Many biological tissues, represented by muscles, exhibit directionally dependent mechanical and electrical properties. However, equipping synthetic materials with tissue-like mechanical and electrical anisotropies remains challenging. Here, we present the bioinspired concepts, design principles, numerical modeling, and experimental demonstrations of soft elastomer composites with programmed mechanical and electrical anisotropies, as well as their integrations with active functionalities. Mechanically assembled, 3D structures of pol

SUBMITTER: Ling Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8791960 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature