The “Best of Advanced Materials Technologies 2022”

Our work won the Best of Advanced Materials Technologies 2022, selected as one of the top 25 publications from 2000 of total papers published in 2022 at the Advanced Materials Technologies.

Dinesh K. Patel*, Xiaonan Huang*, Yichi Luo, Mrunmayi Mungekar, M. Khalid Jawed, Lining Yao✉, Carmel Majidi✉. Advanced Materials Technologies. 2022. PDF | DOI

🏆 Honors: Cover Story of Advanced Materials Technologies | Best of Advanced Materials Technologies 2022 (25/2000)
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To survive in the natural world, many animals have evolved to perform more than one mode of locomotion. These locomotion includes crawling and swimming, crawling and jumping, crawling and rolling, etc.

A highly dynamic and compact soft bistable actuator is presented as a paper in Advanced Materials Technologies. The bistable actuator is fast, robust, stable and power efficient. A amphibious robot, a reconfigurable caterpillar robot and a multimodal crawler are demonstrated here. We foresee the potential application of this class of bistable soft actuators to other domains like wearable robotics, haptics, and shape-reconfigurable apertures for dynamically tunable communication.