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Understand The Structure-Water-Responsive Relationship by Engineering Silk Materials
<p>Water-responsive (WR) materials mechanically swell and shrink in response to changes in relative humidity, and they have demonstrated the capability to exert higher actuation energy than conventional actuators and artificial muscles. As a result, WR materials have recently gained attention as …
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Biomimetic Water-Responsive Structures: From Fundamental Mechanisms to Evaporation Energy Harvesting Applications
<p>Biological systems have developed remarkable water-responsive (WR) structures that deform in response to changes in relative humidity (RH) and convert evaporation energy (chemical potential of water) to mechanical energy. For example, the scales of pinecones open and release pine seeds when the …