A recent breakthrough in photothermal actuator design has been achieved by a research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led by Prof. TIAN Xingyou and Prof. ZHANG Xian. The team developed a novel superstructure liquid metal/low expansion polyimide/polydimethylsiloxane (LM@PI/PDMS) actuator, which combines rapid movement with impressive load-carrying capacity—an ...
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