Programmable soft bending actuators with auxetic metamaterials

Q Pan, ST Chen, FF Chen, XY Zhu - Science China Technological …, 2020 - Springer
Soft robotics has been receiving increasing attention due to its flexibility and adaptability
offered by embodied intelligence. A soft robot may undergo complex motions including …

Topology optimization of skeleton-reinforced soft pneumatic actuators for desired motions

S Chen, F Chen, Z Cao, Y Wang, Y Miao… - IEEE/ASME …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Chen. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
Shitong Chen received the BE degree in aircraft design engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong …

Enhancing interaction performance of soft pneumatic-networks grippers by skeleton topology optimization

ST Chen, YS Wang, DC Li, FF Chen, XY Zhu - Science China …, 2021 - Springer
The inherent compliance of soft materials imbues robots, generally referred to as soft robots,
with particular advantages in producing adaptive and safe interactions. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] PRMT1 promotes the proliferation and metastasis of gastric cancer cells by recruiting MLXIP for the transcriptional activation of the β-catenin pathway

F Wang, S Chen, S Peng, X Zhou, H Tang, H Liang… - Genes & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Protein arginine methyltransferase 1 (PRMT1), a type I PRMT, is overexpressed in gastric
cancer (GC) cells. To elucidate the function of PRMT1 in GC, PRMT1 expression in HGC-27 …

Tailoring the in-plane and out-of-plane stiffness of soft fingers by endoskeleton topology optimization for stable grasping

DC Li, ST Chen, ZN Song, JL Liang, XY Zhu… - Science China …, 2023 - Springer
The intrinsic compliance of soft materials endows soft robots with great advantages to
achieve large deformation and adaptive interactions in grasping tasks. However, current soft …

[HTML][HTML] A unidirectional soft dielectric elastomer actuator enabled by built-in honeycomb metastructures

K Liu, S Chen, F Chen, X Zhu - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are able to undergo large deformation in response to
external electric stimuli and have been widely used to drive soft robotic systems, due to their …

The HNF1α-regulated lncRNA HNF1α-AS1 is involved in the regulation of cytochrome P450 expression in human liver tissues and Huh7 cells

…, S Chen, G Liu, Y Nie, P Wang, W Yang, L Chen… - … of Pharmacology and …, 2019 - ASPET
Expression of cytochrome P450s (P450s) is regulated by epigenetic factors, such as DNA
methylation, histone modifications, and noncoding RNAs through different mechanisms. …

Morphological Design for Pneumatic Soft Actuators and Robots With Desired Deformation Behavior

F Chen, Z Song, S Chen, G Gu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A homogeneous pneumatic soft robot may generate complex output motions using a simple
input pressure, resulting from its morphological shape that locally deforms the soft material …

Nup54-induced CARM1 nuclear importation promotes gastric cancer cell proliferation and tumorigenesis through transcriptional activation and methylation of Notch2

…, J Zhang, H Tang, Y Pang, X Ke, W Peng, S Chen… - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
Gastric cancer (GC) has the fifth highest incidence globally, but its molecular mechanisms
are not well understood. Here, we report that coactivator-associated arginine …

An integrated design and fabrication strategy for planar soft dielectric elastomer actuators

F Chen, K Liu, Q Pan, S Chen… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are promising soft actuators for use in soft material robots, due
to their considerable voltage-induced strain. The actuator's behavior is highly nonlinear due …