Magnetic Shape Memory Polymers with Integrated Multifunctional Shape Manipulation

Shape-programmable soft materials that exhibit integrated multifunctional shape manipulations, including reprogrammable, untethered, fast, and reversible shape transformation and locking, are highly desirable for a plethora of applications, including soft robotics, morphing structures, and biomedical devices. Despite recent progress, it remains challenging to achieve multiple shape manipulations in one material system. Here, a novel magnetic shape memory polymer composite is reported to achieve this. The composite consists of two types of magnetic particles in an amorphous shape memory polymer matrix. The matrix softens via magnetic inductive heating of low-coercivity particles, and high-remanence particles with reprogrammable magnetization profiles drive the rapid and reversible shape change under actuation magnetic fields. Once cooled, the actuated shape can be locked. Additionally, varying the particle loadings for heating enables sequential actuation. The integrated multifunctional shape manipulations are further exploited for applications including soft magnetic grippers with large grabbing force, reconfigurable antennas, and sequential logic for computing.     

磷化工艺对铁基软磁复合材料电磁性能的影响

研究了磷化工艺对铁基软磁复合材料电磁性能的影响。XRD、SEM、EDS分析和元素面分布结果表明,合适的磷化工艺能在铁粉表面生成1层很薄的非晶或纳米晶结构磷酸盐,并且包覆完整均匀。磁性能测量结果表明,室温条件下用0.01g/mL磷酸对铁粉进行磷化30min,所得到的磷化铁粉磁芯具有优异的综合电磁性能。随着磷酸浓度的增大,磷化时间的增长和磷化温度的提高,软磁复合材料磁芯的电阻率增大,中高频磁损耗不断降低,同时磁导率也有一定程度的降低。     

定向断裂爆破技术在特软岩层巷道中的应用

介绍了大雁矿区特软岩层巷道成型新技术,包括定向断裂爆破技术的机理、爆破参数,以及大雁矿区特软岩层条件下实施定向断裂爆破的技术关键和注意事项。应用该技术不仅提高了巷道成型质量、节约了材料,而且保护了围岩稳定,对软岩巷道维护有重要作用。     

Soft particle analysis of electrokinetics of biological cells and their model systems

Abstract

In this article, we review the applications of a novel theory (Ohshima 2009 Sci. Technol. Adv. Mater. 10 063001) to the analysis of electrokinetic data for various soft particles, that is, particles covered with an ion-permeable surface layer of polyelectrolytes. Soft particles discussed in this review include various biological cells and hydrogel-coated particles as a model of biological cells. Cellular transformations increase the concentration of sialic acid of glycoproteins and are associated with blocked biosynthesis of glycolipids and aberrant expression of the developmentally programmed biosynthetic pathway. The change in shape or biological function of cells may affect their surface properties and can be detected by electrokinetic measurements. The experimental results were analyzed with Ohshima’s electrokinetic formula for soft particles and soft surfaces. As a model system, hydrogel surfaces that mimic biological surfaces were also prepared and their surface properties were studied.     

添加Ni对FeZrNbB合金的非晶形成能力与软磁性能的影响

利用单铜辊甩带法制备Fe(86-x)Zr2Nb2B10Nix(x=0、1、3和5)非晶合金带材。采用X射线衍射仪、差示扫描量热仪、振动样品磁强计以及精密磁性器件分析仪研究Ni元素对FeZrNbB合金带材的非晶形成能力和软磁性能影响。结果表明Ni元素能明显提高该体系合金的非晶形成能力,并使淬火态非晶合金带材的一级起始晶化温度提高;通过合金的退火处理,在Fe(86-x)Zr2Nb2B10Nix合金体系中含Ni元素的合金带材可以析出最小粒径为12(12.15)nm的α-Fe(a)纳米晶,获得较低的矫顽力为8.1A/m;其中Fe85Zr2Nb2B10Ni1非晶合金带材经过510℃保温20min热处理后可以获得较高的饱和磁感应强度为1.61T,有效磁导率提升到48.4k,矫顽力下降到8.3A/m。     

Si的添加对FeNiMoB合金非晶形成能力与软磁性能的影响

利用单铜辊甩带法制备Fe40Ni38Mo4B(18-x)Six(x=0,2,4,6,8,10和12)非晶合金带材,并用X射线衍射仪(XRD)、差示扫描量热仪(DSC)、振动样品磁强计(VSM)以及精密磁性器件分析仪研究Si元素对Fe Ni Mo BSi合金带材的非晶形成能力和软磁性能影响。结果表明,随着Si元素的添加,合金带材的矫顽力Hc先减小后增大,并在x=4时最小为5.8 A/m;Fe40Ni38Mo4B14Si4合金带材在405℃保温10 min热处理后获得较高的饱和磁化强度为112.63 A·m2/kg,在345℃保温10 min热处理后获得较低的矫顽力为7.0A/m。     

Soft Ultrathin Electronics Innervated Adaptive Fully Soft Robots

Soft robots outperform the conventional hard robots on significantly enhanced safety, adaptability, and complex motions. The development of fully soft robots, especially fully from smart soft materials to mimic soft animals, is still nascent. In addition, to date, existing soft robots cannot adapt themselves to the surrounding environment, i.e., sensing and adaptive motion or response, like animals. Here, compliant ultrathin sensing and actuating electronics innervated fully soft robots that can sense the environment and perform soft bodied crawling adaptively, mimicking an inchworm, are reported. The soft robots are constructed with actuators of open‐mesh shaped ultrathin deformable heaters, sensors of single‐crystal Si optoelectronic photodetectors, and thermally responsive artificial muscle of carbon‐black‐doped liquid‐crystal elastomer (LCE‐CB) nanocomposite. The results demonstrate that adaptive crawling locomotion can be realized through the conjugation of sensing and actuation, where the sensors sense the environment and actuators respond correspondingly to control the locomotion autonomously through regulating the deformation of LCE‐CB bimorphs and the locomotion of the robots. The strategy of innervating soft sensing and actuating electronics with artificial muscles paves the way for the development of smart autonomous soft robots.