Active‐Textile Yarns and Embroidery Enabled by Wet‐Spun Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Filaments
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DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202400742
Abstract: Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are promising candidates for creating adaptive textile‐based devices that can actively and reversibly respond to the environment for sensing and communication. Despite recent advances in scalable manufacturing of LCE filaments for… read more here.
Keywords: active textile; liquid; wet spun; lce filaments ... See more keywords
Active textile: woven-cloth-like mechanisms consist of thin McKibben actuators
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DOI: 10.1080/01691864.2022.2156813
Abstract: ABSTRACT Pneumatic artificial muscles have some advantages. Especially, the flexibility of artificial muscles contributes to compose novel mechanisms. Authors succeeded in manufacturing novel soft mechanisms that are composed of only woven artificial muscles and strings.… read more here.
Keywords: textile; active textiles; active textile; thin mckibben ... See more keywords