Capillary Transport of Miniature Soft Ribbons
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2019-10-11
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en
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1-10
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MICROMACHINES, Volume 10
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Manipulation of soft miniature devices is important in the construction of soft robots, wearable devices, and biomedical devices. However, transport of soft miniature devices is still a challenging task, and few studies has been conducted on the subject. This paper reports a droplet-based micromanipulation method for transporting miniature soft ribbons. We show that soft ribbons can be successfully picked up and released to the target location using water droplets. We analyze the forces involved during the process numerically and investigate the influence of the width of the ribbon on the deformation. We verify that the deformation of a soft ribbon caused by elasto-capillary phenomena can be calculated using a well-known equation for calculating the deflection of a cantilever beam. The experimental and theoretical results show that the deformability of a soft miniature device during manipulation depends on its width.Description
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Chang, B, Liu, H, Ras, R & Zhou, Q 2019, ' Capillary Transport of Miniature Soft Ribbons ', Micromachines, vol. 10, 684, pp. 1-10 . https://doi.org/10.3390/mi10100684
