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5th Anniversary Article: A Lesson from Plants: High‐Speed Soft Robotic Actuators (Adv. Sci. 5/2020)

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

Advanced Science· Volume 7· Issue 5
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Abstract

Explosion of ping-pong balls that is caused by the rapid inflation of an elastomer membrane. The illustrated ultrafast actuation is based on a plant-inspired mechanical instability that occurs in natural rubber and can be remotely triggered, presented in article number 1903391 by Martin Kaltenbrunner and co-workers. These new types of high-speed soft actuators have potential applications in object sorting or grasping.
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Polymers

OpenAlex topics: Advanced Materials and Mechanics

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Affiliations

Soft Matter Physics Institute of Experimental Physics Johannes Kepler University Linz Altenberger Straße 69 Linz 4040 Austria

Soft Materials Lab Linz Institute of Technology LIT Johannes Kepler University Linz Altenberger Straße 69 Linz 4040 Austria

Institute of High Performance Computing A*STAR 1 Fusionopolis Way, #16‐16 Connexis Singapore 138632 Singapore

Institute of Polymer Science Johannes Kepler University Linz Altenberger Straße 69 Linz 4040 Austria

Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Colorado Boulder Boulder CO 80309 USA

Materials Science and Engineering Program University of Colorado Boulder Boulder CO 80303 USA

Department of Mechanical Engineering National University of Singapore Singapore 117575 Singapore

John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University 29 Oxford Street Cambridge MA 02138 USA

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