Another lesson from plants: the forward osmosis-based actuator.

Osmotic actuation is a ubiquitous plant-inspired actuation strategy that has a very low power consumption but is capable of generating effective movements in a wide variety of environmental conditions. In light of these features, we aimed to develop a novel, low-power-consumption actuator that is ca...

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Main Authors: Edoardo Sinibaldi, Alfredo Argiolas, Gian Luigi Puleo, Barbara Mazzolai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4097062?pdf=render