Industry 4.0

 

Industry 4.0

Fatigue?Resistant Mechanoresponsive Color?Changing Hydrogels for Vision?Based Tactile Robots
27/09/2024 - Mechanoresponsive color?changing materials that can reversibly and resiliently change color in response to stress are highly desirable for diverse technologies in optics, sensors, and robots;...
Controlling the Relaxation Dynamics of Polymer Networks by Combining Associative and Dissociative Dynamic Covalent Bonds
27/09/2024 - The network topology and spatial structure of dynamic covalent polymer networks can be designed independently from their temporal structure and dynamic nature by the judicious combination of two...
Analysis and Optimization of Thermoplastic Polyurethane Infill Patterns for Additive Manufacturing in Pipeline Applications
27/09/2024 - Process parameter optimization and selection play a crucial role in additive manufacturing, particularly in determining the quality and characteristics of the final product. Among these parameters,...
File chunking towards on-chain storage: a blockchain-based data preservation framework
01/12/2024 - Abstract The growing popularity of the most current wave of decentralized systems, powered by blockchain technology, which act as data vaults and preserve data, ensures that,...
Enhancing security and scalability by AI/ML workload optimization in the cloud
01/12/2024 - Abstract The pervasive adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) applications has exponentially increased the demand for efficient resource allocation,...
Direct Laser?Deposited Ni36.5Co36.5Cr18Al4.5Ti4.5 Multiprincipal Component Alloy
25/09/2024 - Direct laser deposition of near crack?free Ni36.5Co36.5Cr18Al4.5Ti4.5 multiprincipal component alloys (MPCA) is achieved and the as?deposited microstructure contains 44% volume fraction of...
Homogenization Heat Treatment and Tribological Properties of In?Situ Alloyed NiTiCu by Laser Powder?Bed Fusion
24/09/2024 - In situ alloying by laser powder?bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing (AM) of premixed powders shows promise for biomedical implants. This study examines the homogenization heat treatment and...
Hybrid Additive Manufacturing for Site?Specific Tensile Response in 316L Stainless Steel
24/09/2024 - This study explores the site?specific tensile response when deformation is selectively applied to layers in a laser?based additive manufacturing process. Deformed regions show a microstructure...
Investigating the Influence of Additive Manufacturing and Ultrasonic Coating Parameters on Biopolymeric Scaffold Performance Using Response Surface Methodology
25/09/2024 - ABSTRACTTriply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) scaffolds have gained attention in additive manufacturing due to their unique porous structures, which are useful in biomedical applications. Unlike...
Influence of infill pattern and layer height on surface characteristics and fatigue behavior of FFF?printed PEEK
24/09/2024 - PolyEther Ether Ketone (PEEK) is a leading thermoplastic biomaterial renowned for its exceptional overall properties and suitability for processing via Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) Additive...
Programming Hydrogen Bonds for Reversible Elastic?Plastic Phase Transition in a Conductive Stretchable Hydrogel Actuator with Rapid Ultra?High?Density Energy Conversion and Multiple Sensory Properties
23/09/2024 - Inspired by the energy conversion of hairspring, an intelligent hydrogel is developed to achieve reversible transformation between elasticity and plasticity through precise regulation of hydrogen...
Untethered & Stiffness?Tunable Ferromagnetic Liquid Robots for Cleaning Thrombus in Complex Blood Vessels
23/09/2024 - In this study, a ferromagnetic liquid robot (FMLR) with tunable modulus (0.1–2018 Pa) applied to thrombus removal in complex blood vessels is developed. Besides, in medical robotic applications,...
4D Printing Hybrid Soft Robots Enabled by Shape?Transformable Liquid Metal Nanoparticles
20/09/2024 - The integration of shape?transformable liquid metal nanoparticles (LMNPs) is first unveiled into 3D printing to create hybrid soft robots with controlled mechanical properties and deformability. This...
Effects of the manufacturing process on the flexural properties of EBMed lattice structures
19/09/2024 - Lattice structures are very interesting since they present good mechanical properties coupled with lightness. Today, the maturity reached by additive manufacturing technologies allows the production...
Tunable Lens Driven by Electrohydrodynamic Pumping
16/09/2024 - This research introduces a novel approach: a dual?chamber liquid lens actuated by an electrohydrodynamic (EHD) pump. The study involves the fabrication and optimization of the EHD pump. A...
Lightweight, Highly Extensible, and Anti?Leak Liquid Metal Elastomer Composites with an Interpenetrating Architecture
16/09/2024 - A reformed sugar template?based method is employed to prepare gallium?based liquid metal?filled elastomers (LMECs), which allows the uniform dispersion of liquid?metal (LM) droplets within the...