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Soft robots utilizing inflatable dielectric membranes can realize intricate functionalities through the application of non-mechanical fields. However, given the current limitations in simulations, including low computational efficiency and…

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The development of new high dielectric materials is essential for advancement in modern electronics. Oxides are generally regarded as the most promising class of high dielectric materials for industrial applications as they possess both…

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Inspired by the cellular design of plant tissue, we present a new approach to make versatile, tough, highly water-swelling composites. We embed highly swelling hydrogel particles inside tough, water-permeable, elastomeric matrices. The…

As the continuing down-scaling of field-effect transistors (FETs) in more-than-Moore integrated circuits, finding new functional two-dimensional (2D) materials with a higher dielectric constant (high-k) serve as gate dielectrics is…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-06 Yue Hu , Jingwen Jiang , Peng Zhang , Fuxin Guan , Da Li , Zhengfang Qian , Pu Huang , Xiuwen Zhang

Capacitive technology allows building sensors that are small, compact and have high sensitivity. For this reason it has been widely adopted in robotics. In a previous work we presented a compliant skin system based on capacitive technology…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Perla Maiolino , Marco Maggiali , Giorgio Cannata , Giorgio Metta , Lorenzo Natale

Performing long-term experimentation or large-scale data collection for machine learning in the field of soft robotics is challenging, due to the hardware robustness and experimental flexibility required. In this work, we propose a modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Kiyn Chin , Carmel Majidi , Abhinav Gupta

The inherent challenge of multimodal fusion is to precisely capture the cross-modal correlation and flexibly conduct cross-modal interaction. To fully release the value of each modality and mitigate the influence of low-quality multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Qingyang Zhang , Haitao Wu , Changqing Zhang , Qinghua Hu , Huazhu Fu , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Xi Peng

We propose machine learning (ML) models to predict the electron density -- the fundamental unknown of a material's ground state -- across the composition space of concentrated alloys. From this, other physical properties can be inferred,…

The discovery of high-dielectric materials is crucial to increasing the efficiency of electronic devices and batteries. Here, we report three previously unexplored materials with very high dielectric constants (69 $<$ $\epsilon$ $<$ 101)…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-11 Abhijith Gopakumar , Koushik Pal , Chris Wolverton

High-entropy materials (HEMs) have recently emerged as a significant category of materials, offering highly tunable properties. However, the scarcity of HEM data in existing density functional theory (DFT) databases, primarily due to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-04 Kangming Li , Kamal Choudhary , Brian DeCost , Michael Greenwood , Jason Hattrick-Simpers

Finding amorphous polymers with higher thermal conductivity is important, as they are ubiquitous in heat transfer applications. With recent progress in material informatics, machine learning approaches have been increasingly adopted for…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-08 Ruimin Ma , Hanfeng Zhang , Jiaxin Xu , Yoshihiro Hayashi , Ryo Yoshida , Junichiro Shiomi , Tengfei Luo

The increasing demands of sustainable energy, electronics, and biomedical applications call for next-generation functional materials with unprecedented properties. Of particular interest are emerging materials that display exceptional…

Anisotropy in crystals plays a pivotal role in many technological applications. For example, anisotropic electronic and thermal transport are thought to be beneficial for thermoelectric applications, while anisotropic mechanical properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-14 Yuchen Lou , Alex M. Ganose

Metal-insulator transition (MIT) materials are a useful platform for emerging microelectronic, optoelectronic, and neuromorphic devices, but their discovery is hindered by the high computational cost of electronic structure modeling, the…

We present a physics-informed neural network framework for predicting the mechanical performance of elastomers exposed to concurrent thermal and gamma-radiation exposure, such as elastomers in nuclear cables or space electronics. Our…

General Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Pouyan Nasiri , Leonard S. Fifield , Hadis Nouri , Roozbeh Dargazany

Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) has become an essential tool in assessing the mechanical properties of soft tissues in-vivo, prompting significant progress in new inversion algorithms. This creates a need for a benchmarking framework…

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The combination of high-throughput experimentation techniques and machine learning (ML) has recently ushered in a new era of accelerated material discovery, enabling the identification of materials with cutting-edge properties. However, the…

This paper presents an interaction control algorithm for a dielectric elastomer membrane actuator. The proposed method permits efficient exploitation of the controllable stiffness of the material, allowing to use the membrane as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Gianluca Rizzello , Francesco Ferrante , David Naso , Stefan Seelecke

Robust learning is an important issue in Scientific Machine Learning (SciML). There are several works in the literature addressing this topic. However, there is an increasing demand for methods that can simultaneously consider all the…

Musculoskeletal robots provide superior advantages in flexibility and dexterity, positioning them as a promising frontier towards embodied intelligence. However, current research is largely confined to relative simple tasks, restricting the…

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