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Rollon launches SMART SYSTEM Belt Actuators

Rollon has updated its SMART SYSTEM lineup of belt-driven linear actuators with a rugged new design that supports heavy loads and ensures low maintenance operation in automated manufacturing, packaging machines and food and beverage equipment.




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Carrier building automation system valves and actuators

Carrier’s lineup of communicating peripherals for the i-Vu building automation system has been expanded to include smart valves with Characterized Control Valve (CCVT) technology and smart damper actuators. 




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Why Actuators for Connected Industry Run on Brushless DC Motors

The flow control industry has stubbornly clung to pneumatic actuators, specifically in the American market, for decades.




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Towards high performance and durable soft tactile actuators

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2024, 53,3485-3535
DOI: 10.1039/D3CS01017A, Review Article
Open Access
Matthew Wei Ming Tan, Hui Wang, Dace Gao, Peiwen Huang, Pooi See Lee
This review assesses diverse strategies to enhance the actuation performance and durability of soft tactile actuators, enabling optimal functionality in real-world conditions.
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Thickness-dependent response of aerosol-jet-printed ultrathin high-aspect-ratio electrochemical microactuators

Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00886C, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Ji Zhang, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Sohini Kar-Narayan
Trilayer electrochemical actuators comprising an electrolyte layer sandwiched between two electrode layers have been shown to exhibit large deformations at low actuation voltages. Here we report aerosol-jet printing (AJP) of...
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A Copper(I)-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Click Chemistry Approach towards Multifunctional Two-Way Shape-Memory Actuators

Polym. Chem., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0PY00217H, Paper
Zhong-Cheng Liu, Bo Zuo, Hai-Feng Lu, Meng Wang, Shuai Huang, Xu-Man Chen, Baoping Lin, Hong Yang
Nowadays, two-way shape memory polymeric materials with reversible shape-morphing capability, exhibit extraordinary application prospects in robotic, biomedical and intelligent material technologies, and have attracted extensive scientific attention. However, exploration of...
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Soft actuators: materials, modeling, applications, and future perspectives / Kinji Asaka, Hidenori Okuzaki, editors

Online Resource




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Mechatronic systems, sensors and actuators: fundamentals and modeling / Robert H. Bishop

Online Resource




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Compliant systems: mechanics of elastically deformable mechanisms, actuators and sensors / Lena Zentner, Sebastian Linß

Barker Library - TJ223.P67 Z46 2019




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Controlled shape morphing of solvent free thermoresponsive soft actuators

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4162-4172
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00020E, Paper
Vadakkumnalath Prakasan Anju, Raghunandan Pratoori, Deepak Kumar Gupta, Rajendra Joshi, Ratna Kumar Annabattula, Pijush Ghosh
Reconfigurable actuators are designed based on chitosan and pNipam which has the capability to attain precise and programmable actuation. The current approach offers a feasible way to fabricate soft actuators with repeatable and reversible actuation.
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Design and test of lead-zirconate-titanate flexural plate wave based actuators