Design and Investigation of Electrospun Artificial Muscle Fibers

静电纺人造肌肉纤维的设计与研究

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    1762560
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 43.82万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    美国
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
  • 财政年份:
    2018
  • 资助国家:
    美国
  • 起止时间:
    2018-04-01 至 2022-03-31
  • 项目状态:
    已结题

项目摘要

This grant will support the research that will create new knowledge relevant to soft robotics and active structures that are widely used in biomedical, manufacturing and energy sectors and will serve to advance our national health and prosperity. The grant allows the design and investigation of artificial muscle fibers fabricated from electrospinning technique. Artificial muscle materials can generate an active deformation and force when subjected to external stimuli, behaving like real muscle. Previously developed artificial muscle materials have often suffered from poor scalability and slow response, which greatly limit their applications. Consequently, performance of artificial muscle has been increasingly recognized as one of the bottlenecks in designing novel soft robots and active structures. The artificial muscle material in this grant will have superior mechanical properties, a faster response rate, diverse actuating modes and excellent scalability. These new materials will contribute to the rapidly developing fields of soft robotics, novel actuators and energy conversion systems. The project will also provide interdisciplinary education and training opportunities to graduate and undergraduate students and seeks to attract underrepresented groups into science and engineering. Short disseminated demonstrations of artificial muscles to be developed will serve as an attractive education and research platform for disadvantaged, first generation high school and college students.The artificial muscle assembled from electrospun polymer fibers can be easily fabricated into different shapes with various actuating modes, scaled up and down to various sizes, made to respond to different stimuli. A comprehensive understanding of processing-structure-property relationship for the electrospun polymer fibers is essential for the rational design of the artificial muscle fibers. The research team will electrospin three different types of polymer fibers: semicrystalline polyamide, polyelectrolyte and liquid crystal polymer, conduct systematic chemo-thermo-mechanical characterizations of these individual fibers using novel electrospinning tools, and design artificial muscle with diverse actuating modes by assembling these polymer fibers into different patterns.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
这笔赠款将支持将创造与软机器人和主动结构相关的新知识的研究,这些知识广泛应用于生物医学、制造业和能源部门,并将有助于促进我们的国家健康和繁荣。这笔赠款允许设计和研究利用静电纺丝技术制造的人造肌肉纤维。人造肌肉材料在受到外界刺激时会产生主动的变形和力,表现得像真正的肌肉一样。以往开发的人工肌肉材料往往存在可伸缩性差、响应速度慢等问题,极大地限制了其应用。因此,人工肌肉的性能越来越被认为是设计新型软机器人和主动结构的瓶颈之一。这笔赠款中的人造肌肉材料将具有优越的机械性能、更快的响应速度、多样化的驱动模式和出色的可扩展性。这些新材料将为快速发展的软机器人、新型执行器和能量转换系统领域做出贡献。该项目还将为研究生和本科生提供跨学科的教育和培训机会,并试图吸引代表人数不足的群体进入科学和工程专业。即将开发的人工肌肉短传播演示将成为吸引弱势群体、第一代高中生和大学生的教育和研究平台。由电纺聚合物纤维组装的人造肌肉可以很容易地制造成不同的形状,具有不同的驱动模式,可以放大和缩小到不同的尺寸,使其对不同的刺激做出反应。全面了解电纺聚合物纤维的加工-结构-性能关系是合理设计人工肌肉纤维的关键。研究团队将电纺三种不同类型的聚合物纤维:半结晶聚酰胺、聚电解质和液晶聚合物,使用新型静电纺丝工具对这些单独的纤维进行系统的化学-热-机械表征,并通过将这些聚合物纤维组装成不同的图案来设计具有不同驱动模式的人造肌肉。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命,并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估,被认为值得支持。

项目成果

期刊论文数量(5)
专著数量(0)
科研奖励数量(0)
会议论文数量(0)
专利数量(0)
High-contrast and reversible polymer thermal regulator by structural phase transition
  • DOI:
    10.1126/sciadv.aax3777
  • 发表时间:
    2019-12-01
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    13.6
  • 作者:
    Shrestha, Ramesh;Luan, Yuxuan;Shen, Sheng
  • 通讯作者:
    Shen, Sheng
Osmotic Pumping and Salt Rejection by Polyelectrolyte Hydrogel for Continuous Solar Desalination
  • DOI:
    10.1002/aenm.201900552
  • 发表时间:
    2019-08
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    27.8
  • 作者:
    Jian Zeng;Qingyang Wang;Yang Shi;Ping Liu;Renkun Chen
  • 通讯作者:
    Jian Zeng;Qingyang Wang;Yang Shi;Ping Liu;Renkun Chen
Electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator
  • DOI:
    10.1126/scirobotics.abi9704
  • 发表时间:
    2021-08-11
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    25
  • 作者:
    He, Qiguang;Wang, Zhijian;Cai, Shengqiang
  • 通讯作者:
    Cai, Shengqiang
Dual-mode solid-state thermal rectification
  • DOI:
    10.1038/s41467-020-18212-2
  • 发表时间:
    2020-08-28
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    16.6
  • 作者:
    Shrestha, Ramesh;Luan, Yuxuan;Shen, Sheng
  • 通讯作者:
    Shen, Sheng
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Shengqiang Cai其他文献

Numerical study on crack tip fields in liquid crystal elastomers
液晶弹性体裂纹尖端场的数值研究
Modeling of Light-Driven Bending Vibration of a Liquid Crystal Elastomer Beam
Mechanics and physics under supergravity conditions
  • DOI:
    10.1007/s10409-024-24902-x
  • 发表时间:
    2024-06-01
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    4.600
  • 作者:
    Chaofeng Lü;Chao Sun;Shengqiang Cai
  • 通讯作者:
    Shengqiang Cai
Voltage-Induced Wrinkling in a Constrained Annular Dielectric Elastomer Film. Journal of Applied Mechanics
约束环形介电弹性体薄膜中电压引起的起皱。
Drying-Induced Deformation in Fiber-Embedded Gels to Mimic Plant Nastic Movements
纤维嵌入凝胶中干燥引起的变形来模拟植物的运动

Shengqiang Cai的其他文献

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{{ truncateString('Shengqiang Cai', 18)}}的其他基金

Chemo-Mechanical Coupling in the Erosion of Degradable Polymers
可降解聚合物侵蚀中的化学机械耦合
  • 批准号:
    2029145
  • 财政年份:
    2021
  • 资助金额:
    $ 43.82万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
CAREER: Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Mechanics Interacting with Electric/Optical Fields in Liquid Crystal Elastomers
职业:液晶弹性体中与电场/光场相互作用的力学实验和理论研究
  • 批准号:
    1554212
  • 财政年份:
    2016
  • 资助金额:
    $ 43.82万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Surface Instability Propagation in Soft Materials
合作研究:软材料表面不稳定性传播动力学
  • 批准号:
    1538137
  • 财政年份:
    2015
  • 资助金额:
    $ 43.82万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant

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