Variable stiffness material based on rigid low-melting-point-alloy microstructures embedded in soft poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS)

By Bryan Schubert, Dario Floreano. 2013

201 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/06b16617eab423ae706348f3d67c8c614d2ee3e3

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Matteo Cianchetti
2. Carmel Majidi
3. Vito Cacucciolo
4. Qibing Pei
5. Mariangela Manti
6. Fumiya Iida
7. Zhigang Suo
8. Cecilia Laschi

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Matteo Cianchetti
2. Carmel Majidi
3. Qibing Pei
4. Mariangela Manti
5. Vito Cacucciolo
6. Fumiya Iida
7. Cecilia Laschi
8. Barbara Mazzolai

In Polymers and Plastics

1. Qibing Pei
2. Matteo Cianchetti
3. Carmel Majidi
4. Mariangela Manti
5. Vito Cacucciolo

Citations in the corpus

• Controllable and reversible tuning of material rigidity for robot applications (2018, background): “Right: application in a variable stiffness gripper [15,28].”
• Stiffening in Soft Robotics: A Review of the State of the Art (2016, methodology): “A smart solution is the use of microfabricated elastomeric structures [59] [Figure 5(c)].”