The prototype adaptive soft robot includes a liquid crystal elastomer, doped with carbon black nanoparticles to enhance thermal conductivity, as the artificial muscle, combined with
ultrathin mesh shaped stretchable thermal actuators and silicon - based light sensors.
The scientists first grew carpets of microscopic wires of gallium nitride, a light - emitting crystalline material, on
an ultrathin mesh of graphene, which is a layer of carbon atoms that is flexible, conductive and tough.
Not exact matches
The group also evaluated the permeability, with water vapor, of the nanomesh conductor — along with those of other substrates like
ultrathin plastic foil and a thin rubber sheet — and found that its porous
mesh structure exhibited superior gas permeability compared to that of the other materials.
The clinicians removed
ultrathin sheets of skin from Northstar's chest and expanded them with a
meshing tool before placing the grafts across an enormous wound spanning the horse's back.