Nature is replete with slender filaments that bend and coil—from climbing grape vines, to folded proteins, to elephant trunks that can pick up a peanut but also take down a tree.

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A new artificial muscle can change shape, repair damage, and be reused, bringing a major shift in how robots are built and ...

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) can undergo large, reversible in-plane deformation. In a new report now published in Science Advances, Junhong Pu and a team of scientists in soft materials ...

Breaking away from conventional robots that perform only predefined functions once fabricated, researchers have developed a ...

Researchers have developed a family of highly stretchable and UV curable (SUV) elastomers that can be stretched by up to 1100%, and are suitable for UV curing based 3-D printing techniques. Using high ...

An artificial muscle capable of changing shape, repairing damage and being reused has been developed by a team of researchers ...

Dynamic liquid crystal elastomer composites enable a 3D-printed soft robot that switches between three propulsion modes on ...

For many years, “Made in the USA” has been used to promote quality products throughout a broad range of industries. And in today’s plastics industry, it has perhaps never been more important. Why?

Calling the material the industry's first cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) elastomer, TOPAS Advanced Polymers has received Food Contact Notification (FCN) #1104 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...