Materials tactile logic via innervated soft thermochromic elastomers

Designing bio-inspired computational features in soft systems without centralized processing remains challenging. Here, the authors propose a passive display based on thermochromic elastomers by leveraging Joule heating of embedded liquid metal wires by changing geometry in response to deformation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yang Jin, Yiliang Lin, Abolfazl Kiani, Ishan D. Joshipura, Mingqiao Ge, Michael D. Dickey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12161-1