Elastic energy

Dual-gradient enabled ultrafast biomimetic snapping of hydrogel materials

Wenxin Fan, Caiyun Shan, Hongyu Guo, Jianwei Sang, Rui Wang, Ranran Zheng, Kunyan Sui, Zhihong Nie

Citations: 236 • 2019

Observation of elastic topological states in soft materials

Shuaifeng Li, Degang Zhao, Hao Niu, Xue‐Feng Zhu, Jianfeng Zang

Citations: 137 • 2018

Elastic Energy Storage Enabled Magnetically Actuated, Octopus‐Inspired Smart Adhesive

Suhao Wang, Hongyu Luo, Changhong Linghu, Jizhou Song

Citations: 124 • 2020

Elastic Energy Storage Enables Rapid and Programmable Actuation in Soft Machines

Aniket Pal, Debkalpa Goswami, Ramsés V. Martínez

Citations: 103 • 2019

Elastic Model of Deformable Fingertip for Soft-Fingered Manipulation

Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai

Citations: 94 • 2006

Light-steerable locomotion using zero-elastic-energy modes

Zixuan Deng, Kai Li, Arri Priimägi, Hao Zeng

Citations: 76 • 2024

Optically Controlled Latching and Launching in Soft Actuators

Hongshuang Guo, Arri Priimägi, Hao Zeng

Citations: 59 • 2021

Series and Parallel Elastic Actuation: Influence of Operating Positions on Design and Control

Philipp Beckerle, Tom Verstraten, Glenn Mathijssen, Raphaël Furnémont, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber

Citations: 56 • 2016

Snapping of elastic strips with controlled ends

Alessandro Cazzolli, F. Dal Corso

Citations: 51 • 2018

Series Elastic Behavior of Biarticular Muscle-Tendon Structure in a Robotic Leg

Felix Ruppert, Alexander Badri–Spröwitz

Citations: 35 • 2019

Self-Sustained Euler Buckling of an Optically Responsive Rod with Different Boundary Constraints

Dali Ge, Yuntong Dai, Kai Li

Citations: 34 • 2023

Design of a robot leg with elastic energy storage, comparison to biology, and preliminary experimental results

M.D. Berkemeier, Kamal Desai

Citations: 34 • 2002

Programming Hydrogen Bonds for Reversible Elastic‐Plastic Phase Transition in a Conductive Stretchable Hydrogel Actuator with Rapid Ultra‐High‐Density Energy Conversion and Multiple Sensory Properties

Ping Guo, Zhaoxin Zhang, Chengnan Qian, Ruofei Wang, Lin Cheng, Ye Tian, Huaping Wu, Shuze Zhu, Aiping Liu

Citations: 31 • 2024

Emergent perversions in the buckling of heterogeneous elastic strips

Shuangping Liu, Zhenwei Yao, Kevin Chiou, Samuel I. Stupp, Mónica Olvera de la Cruz

Citations: 29 • 2016

Towards efficient elastic actuation in bio-inspired robotics using dielectric elastomer artificial muscles

Chongjing Cao, Xing Gao, Andrew T. Conn

Citations: 29 • 2019

Freezing droplet ejection by spring-like elastic pillars

Huanhuan Zhang, W.F. Zhang, Yuankai Jin, Chenyang Wu, Zhenyu Xu, Siyan Yang, Shouwei Gao, Fayu Liu, Wanghuai Xu, S. Wang, Haimin Yao, Zuankai Wang

Citations: 28 • 2024

Effect of an electric field on the deformation of incompressible rubbers: Bifurcation phenomena

Ricardo Díaz‐Calleja, M. J. Sanchı́s, Evaristo Riande

Citations: 26 • 2009

Nature-Inspired Sequential Shape Transformation of Energy-Patterned Hydrogel Sheets

Wenxin Fan, Jincai Yin, Chenglin Yi, Yanzhi Xia, Zhihong Nie, Kunyan Sui

Citations: 25 • 2020

Mechanics of regulatable hydrogel adhesion with elastic heterogeneity

Heng Zhu, Tenghao Yin, Xiaocheng Hu, Binhong Liu, Honghui Yu, Zhe Chen, Shaoxing Qu, Wei Yang

Citations: 25 • 2023

Design and evaluation of the Bi-directional Clutched Parallel Elastic Actuator (BIC-PEA)

Michiel Plooij, Marvin van Nunspeet, Martijn Wisse, Heike Vallery

Citations: 24 • 2015