Recent advances in biomimetic soft robotics: fabrication approaches, driven strategies and applications.

Compared to traditional rigid-bodied robots, soft robots are constructed using physically flexible/elastic bodies and electronics to mimic nature and enable novel applications in industry, healthcare, aviation, military, Recently, the fabrication of robots on soft matter with great flexibility and compliance has enabled smooth and sophisticated 'multi-degree-of-freedom' 3D actuation to seamlessly interact with humans, other organisms and non-idealized environments in a highly complex and controllable manner. Herein, we summarize the fabrication approaches, driving strategies, novel applications, and future trends of soft robots. Firstly, we introduce the different fabrication approaches to prepare soft robots and compare and systematically discuss their advantages and disadvantages.

Carbon fiber coated by quinoa cellulose nanosheet with outstanding scaled salt self-cleaning performance and purification of organic and antibiotic contaminated water.

To date, various solar driven evaporation technologies have been developed for treatment of seawater and wastewater but with the threat from salt polluted and single treatment of seawater. Herein, we develop a multifunctional evaporator constructed by carbon fiber coated by quinoa cellulose nanosheet (CFQC) with outstanding self-cleaning performance and good purification property for treatment of organic and antibiotic polluted water. The resulting Zn-CFQC exhibits good light to thermal performance which can absorb about 86.

Qualitative and quantitative adsorption mechanisms of zinc ions from aqueous solutions onto dead carp derived biochar.

The objective of this study is to investigate the qualitative mechanisms of Zn adsorption on carp biochars (CMB) produced from dead carp at different temperatures (450-650 °C) and their quantitative contribution. The pseudo second order kinetic model and the Langmuir model could fit the kinetic and isothermal adsorption data well, respectively. The intra-particle diffusion was the main rate-limiting step but not the only rate-limiting step.

Photo-Detachable Self-Cleaning Surfaces Inspired by Gecko Toepads.

Strong, reversible, and self-cleaning adhesion in the toe pads of geckos allow the lizards to climb on a variety of vertical and inverted surfaces, regardless of the surface conditions, whether hydrophobic or hydrophilic, smooth or tough, wet or dry, clean or dirty. Development of synthetic gecko-inspired surfaces has drawn a great attention over the past two decades. Despite many external-stimuli responsive mechanisms (i.