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Magnetic Milli-spinner for Robotic Endovascular Surgery
Shuai Wu, Sophie Leanza, Lu Lu +4
Vascular diseases such as thrombosis, atherosclerosis, and aneurysm, which can lead to blockage of blood flow or blood vessel rupture, are common and life-threatening. Conventional…
Minimal design of the elephant trunk as an active filament
Bartosz Kaczmarski, Sophie Leanza, Renee Zhao +3
One of the key problems in active materials is the control of shape through actuation. A fascinating example of such control is the elephant trunk, a long, muscular, and extremely…
On the Elastic Stability of Folded Rings in Circular and Straight States
Sophie Leanza, Ruike Renee Zhao, John W. Hutchinson
Single-loop elastic rings can be folded into multi-loop equilibrium configurations. In this paper, the stability of several such multi-loop states which are either circular or stra…
Liquid Crystal Elastomer-Liquid Metal Composite: Ultrafast, Untethered, and Programmable Actuation by Induction Heating
Victor Maurin, Yilong Chang, Qiji Ze +2
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a stimuli-responsive material which has been intensively studied for applications including artificial muscles, shape morphing structures, and…