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signal strength, increasing sensitivity and
signal-to-noise ratio and potentially opening
the way to more widespread use in clinical
diagnosis, " says Richard Syms, professor
of microsystems technology in the department
of electrical and electronic engineering
at Imperial College London, who was
not involved with this research. This work
was supported by Empiriko Corporation.
This article was written by Adam
Zewe, MIT News. For more information,
contact Dr. Luis Fernando
Research Could Advance Soft Robotics
Manufacturing, Design
A quantitative framework
enables tunable elastomer
curing via temperature
control.
Rice University
Houston, TX
Soft robots use pliant materials such as
elastomers to interact safely with the human
body and other challenging, delicate
objects and environments. A team of Rice
University researchers has developed an
analytical model that can predict the curUpcoming...
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ing time of platinum-catalyzed silicone
elastomers as a function of temperature.
The model could help reduce energy
waste and improve throughput for elastomer-based
components manufacturing.
" In our study, we looked at elastomers as
a class of materials that enables soft robotics,
a field that has seen a huge surge in
growth over the past decade, " says Daniel
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engineering and corresponding
author on a study published in Cell Reports
Physical Science. " While there is some related
research on materials like epoxies and even
on several specific silicone elastomers, until
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the commercially available silicone elastomers
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that Preston and his team studied
typically start out as two viscoelastic liquids
that, when mixed together, transform
over time into a rubbery solid. As a
liquid mixture, they can be poured into
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