Advanced 3D Morphing Transducers by Smart Hydrogel Patterning
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Wang, Cong; Sridhar, Sreepathy; Terry, Jonathan G.; Sun, Ansu; Li, Zhenghong; Lv, Haibao; Xu, Ben B.; Li, Yifan
- Source
- 2019 20th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems & Eurosensors XXXIII (TRANSDUCERS & EUROSENSORS XXXIII) Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems & Eurosensors XXXIII (TRANSDUCERS & EUROSENSORS XXXIII), 2019 20th International Conference on. :2508-2510 Jun, 2019
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Shape
Three-dimensional displays
Strain
Substrates
Transducers
Microfluidics
Surface treatment
Heterogeneous hydrogel
droplet microfluidics
responsive swelling
flexible sensors
surface wettability
- Language
- ISSN
- 2167-0021
This paper demonstrates a unique way of creating heterogeneous layered structures of soft functional materials for advanced transducer applications. Hydrogel droplets with different composites were patterned by a "two-parallel plate" configuration used in microfluidics applications. Resulted heterogeneous layered structures of hydrogel were created, generating reconfigurable 3D (3-dimensional) deformation responding to discrete levels of stimulation inputs.