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Brancart, Joost
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Publications (15/15 displayed)
- 2024Designing flexible and self-healing electronics using hybrid carbon black/nanoclay composites based on Diels-Alder dynamic covalent networkscitations
- 2024Diels-Alder Network Blends as Self-Healing Encapsulants for Liquid Metal-Based Stretchable Electronicscitations
- 2023Solid‐state crosslinkable, shape‐memory polyesters serving tissue engineeringcitations
- 2023Fast Self-Healing at Room Temperature in Diels–Alder Elastomerscitations
- 2023Assisted damage closure and healing in soft robots by shape memory alloy wirescitations
- 2023Vitrimeric shape memory polymer-based fingertips for adaptive graspingcitations
- 2023Effect of Secondary Particles on Self-Healing and Electromechanical Properties of Polymer Composites Based on Carbon Black and a Diels–Alder Networkcitations
- 2021Supramolecular self-healing sensor fiber composites for damage detection in piezoresistive electronic skin for soft robotscitations
- 2021The Influence of the Furan and Maleimide Stoichiometry on the Thermoreversible Diels–Alder Network Polymerizationcitations
- 2020Self-Healing Material Design and Optimization for Soft Robotic Applications
- 2019Diffusion- and Mobility-Controlled Self-Healing Polymer Networks with Dynamic Covalent Bondingcitations
- 2019Mechanical, physical and chemical characterisation of mycelium-based composites with different types of lignocellulosic substratescitations
- 2018The Effect of Vitrification on the Diels-Alder Reaction Kinetics
- 2017Towards the first developments of self-healing soft robotics
- 2011Self-healing property characterization of reversible thermoset coatings
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Towards the first developments of self-healing soft robotics
Abstract
With upcoming new synthetic materials, the importance of polymers in the robotic industry is increasing and smart materials are even exploited, such as shape memory and piezoelectric polymers used in new actuation mechanisms. However, the self-healing material technology has barely made its entrance in the robotics, where self-healing is only known on the software level. This research aims at introducing self-healing polymers in soft robotics. Soft robots are made almost entirely out of flexible, soft elastomers, making them suitable for<br/>applications in uncertain, dynamic task-environments, including safe human-robot interactions. Because of their intrinsic compliance they are resistant to shocks and high mechanical impacts. But being soft, they are very susceptible to damages caused by sharp objects, eg. glass corners, pointy items, etc. We propose to fabricate the flexible membranes of soft robots out of thermos-reversible covalent Diels-Alder (DA) elastomers. Macroscopic damages can be healed, using a heat treatment.