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Materials Expand Access to Functional Elastomer Parts MEDFORD, Mass., April 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Inkbit today announced that its production-grade TEPU(TM) 30A & 50A elastomers are now available ...
Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) can undergo large, reversible in-plane deformation. In a new report now published in Science Advances, Junhong Pu and a team of scientists in soft materials ...
A small strip of rubbery material sits motionless on a lab bench at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A researcher aims ...
Dynamic liquid crystal elastomer composites enable a 3D-printed soft robot that switches between three propulsion modes on ...
Researchers have developed a family of highly stretchable and UV curable (SUV) elastomers that can be stretched by up to 1100%, and are suitable for UV curing based 3-D printing techniques. Using high ...
An artificial muscle capable of changing shape, repairing damage and being reused has been developed by a team of researchers ...
Calling the material the industry's first cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) elastomer, TOPAS Advanced Polymers has received Food Contact Notification (FCN) #1104 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...
Breaking away from conventional robots that perform only predefined functions once fabricated, researchers have developed a ...