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20152020
most citedCurvature-driven, One-step Assembly of Reconfigurable Smectic Liquid Crystal "Compound Eye" Lenses

70 citations · 86 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

q-bio.NC2020

A Fully Integrated Sensor-Brain-Machine Interface System for Restoring Somatosensation

Xilin Liu, Hongjie Zhu, Tian Qiu +8

Sensory feedback is critical to the performance of neural prostheses that restore movement control after neurological injury. Recent advances in direct neural control of paralyzed…

cs.RO2019

A Tunably Compliant Origami Mechanism for Dynamically Dexterous Robots

Wei-Hsi Chen, Shivangi Misra, Yuchong Gao +4

We present an approach to overcoming challenges in dynamical dexterity for robots through tunable origami structures. Our work leverages a one-parameter family of flat sheet crease…

cond-mat.soft2019

Monolithic shape-programmable dielectric liquid crystal elastomer actuators

Zoey S. Davidson, Hamed Shahsavan, Amirreza Aghakhani +5

Macroscale robotic systems have demonstrated great capabilities of high speed, precise, and agile functions. However, the ability of soft robots to perform complex tasks, especiall…

cond-mat.soft201716 cited

Elastocapillary driven assembly of particles at free-standing smectic-A films

Mohamed Amine Gharbi, Daniel A. Beller, Nima Sharifi-Mood +4

Colloidal particles at complex fluid interfaces and within films assemble to form ordered structures with high degrees of symmetry via interactions that include capillarity, elasti…

cond-mat.soft201570 cited

Curvature-driven, One-step Assembly of Reconfigurable Smectic Liquid Crystal "Compound Eye" Lenses

Francesca Serra, Mohamed A. Gharbi, Yimin Luo +5

Confined smectic A liquid crystals (SmA LCs) form topological defects called focal conic domains (FCDs) that focus light as gradient-index lenses. Here, we exploit surface curvatur…