Bistability

A soft, bistable valve for autonomous control of soft actuators

Philipp Rothemund, Alar Ainla, Lee Belding, Daniel J. Preston, Sarah Q. Kurihara, Zhigang Suo, George M. Whitesides

Citations: 525 • 2018

Bistable and Multistable Actuators for Soft Robots: Structures, Materials, and Functionalities

Yinding Chi, Yanbin Li, Yao Zhao, Yaoye Hong, Yichao Tang, Jie Yin

Citations: 524 • 2022

Harnessing bistability for directional propulsion of soft, untethered robots

Tian Chen, Osama R. Bilal, Kristina Shea, Chiara Daraio

Citations: 416 • 2018

Topological modes bound to dislocations in mechanical metamaterials

Jayson Paulose, Bryan Gin–ge Chen, Vincenzo Vitelli

Citations: 373 • 2015

Bistable Structures for Advanced Functional Systems

Yunteng Cao, Masoud Derakhshani, Yu‐Hui Fang, Guoliang Huang, Changyong Cao

Citations: 250 • 2021

4D printed origami metamaterials with tunable compression twist behavior and stress-strain curves

Ran Tao, Longtao Ji, Ying Li, Zhishuai Wan, Wenxia Hu, Wenwang Wu, Binbin Liao, Lianhua Ma, Daining Fang

Citations: 216 • 2020

A crawling robot driven by multi-stable origami

Alexander Pagano, Tongxi Yan, Brian Chien, Aimy Wissa, Sameh Tawfick

Citations: 208 • 2017

Shape-Persistent Actuators from Hydrazone Photoswitches

Alexander Ryabchun, Quan Li, Federico Lancia, Ivan Aprahamian, Nathalie Katsonis

Citations: 197 • 2019

Flytrap-inspired robot using structurally integrated actuation based on bistability and a developable surface

Seung-Won Kim, Je‐Sung Koh, Jong-Gu Lee, Junghyun Ryu, Maenghyo Cho, Kyu‐Jin Cho

Citations: 160 • 2014

Programmable Multistable Perforated Shellular

Jiahao Shi, Hossein Mofatteh, Armin Mirabolghasemi, Gilles Desharnais, Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh

Citations: 147 • 2021

Peristaltic locomotion without digital controllers: Exploiting multi-stability in origami to coordinate robotic motion

Priyanka Bhovad, Joshua Kaufmann, Suyi Li

Citations: 145 • 2019

Wireless Miniature Magnetic Phase‐Change Soft Actuators

Yichao Tang, Mingtong Li, Tianlu Wang, Xiaoguang Dong, Wenqi Hu, Metin Sitti

Citations: 139 • 2022

Magnetic actuation bionic robotic gripper with bistable morphing structure

Zheng Zhang, Xianghao Li, Xiaochen Yu, Hao Chai, Yang Li, Huaping Wu, Shaofei Jiang

Citations: 133 • 2019

Inflatable Origami: Multimodal Deformation via Multistability

David Melancon, Antonio Elia Forte, Leon M. Kamp, Benjamin Gorissen, Katia Bertoldi

Citations: 131 • 2022

Plant-inspired adaptive structures and materials for morphing and actuation: a review

Suyi Li, Kon‐Well Wang

Citations: 127 • 2016

On the design of large degree-of-freedom digital mechatronic devices based on bistable dielectric elastomer actuators

Andreas Wingert, Matthew D. Lichter, Steven Dubowsky

Citations: 124 • 2006

Bistable Buckled Beam: Modeling of Actuating Force and Experimental Validations

Paul Cazottes, A. Fernandes, J. Pouget, Moustapha Hafez

Citations: 124 • 2009

Bistability-based foldable origami mechanical logic gates

Zhiqiang Meng, Wei Tong Chen, Mei Tie, Yuchen Lai, Yixiao Li, Chang Chen

Citations: 122 • 2021

A Lesson from Plants: High‐Speed Soft Robotic Actuators

Richard Baumgartner, Alexander Kogler, Josef M. Stadlbauer, Choon Chiang Foo, Rainer Kaltseis, Melanie Baumgartner, Guoyong Mao, Christoph Keplinger, Soo Jin Adrian Koh, N. Arnold, Zhigang Suo, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Siegfried Bauer

Citations: 111 • 2020

Highly Dynamic Bistable Soft Actuator for Reconfigurable Multimodal Soft Robots

Dinesh K. Patel, Xiaonan Huang, Yichi Luo, Mrunmayi Mungekar, Mohammad Khalid Jawed, Lining Yao, Carmel Majidi

Citations: 106 • 2022