Abstract: A new light-activated shape memory polymer (LaSMP) smart material exhibits shape memory behaviors and stiffness variation via ultraviolet (UV) light exposures. This dynamic stiffness provides a new noncontact actuation ...

Abstract: Dynamic sensing is essential to effective closedloop control of precision structures. In a centrosymmetric crystal subjected to inhomogeneous deformation, when piezoelectricity is absent, only the strain gradient contributes ...

Abstract: Light activated shape memory polymer (LaSMP) is a novel smart material. It realizes the shape memory function under the exposure of laser lights with two different wavelengths. During the exposure process, the stiffness ...

Abstract: The converse flexoelectric effect, i.e., the polarization (or electric field) gradient-induced internal stress (or strain), can be utilized to actuate and control flexible structures. This study focuses on the microscopic ...

Abstract: A flexoelectric cantilever beam actuated by the converse flexoelectric effect is evaluated and its analytical and experimental data are compared in this study. A line-electrode on the top beam surface and a bottom surface ...