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Biomimetics, Volume 3, Issue 1

March 2018 - 4 articles

Cover Story: The developed modular continuum manipulator consists of an arm and a soft reconfigurable gripper. The arm bends up to 143°, rotates about its own axis and provides orientational stiffness. The gripper reconfigurability allows the manipulator to increase or decrease the number of grasping points according to the object shape. The combination of these arm and gripper features endows the manipulator with increased grasping and manipulation abilities; this way it can be used for more delicate and versatile applications, such as grasping vegetables and eggs, picking up bottles or opening doors. View the paper

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Review

9 Citations

5,989 Views

17 Pages

Targeting Early Dementia: Using Lipid Cubic Phase Nanocarriers to Cross the Blood–Brain Barrier

Joseph S. D’Arrigo

Biomimetics2018, 3(1), 4;https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics3010004

7 March 2018

Over the past decades, a frequent co-morbidity of cerebrovascular pathology and Alzheimer’s disease has been observed. Numerous published studies indicate that the preservation of a healthy cerebrovascular endothelium can be an important therapeutic...

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Article

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16 Pages

Modular Continuum Manipulator: Analysis and Characterization of Its Basic Module

Anand Kumar Mishra,
Alessio Mondini,
Emanuela Del Dottore,
Ali Sadeghi,
Francesca Tramacere and
Barbara Mazzolai

Biomimetics2018, 3(1), 3;https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics3010003

14 February 2018

We present the basic module of a modular continuum arm (soft compliant manipulator for broad applications (SIMBA)). SIMBA is a robotic arm with a hybrid structure, namely a combination of rigid and soft components, which makes the arm highly versatil...

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Communication

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7,253 Views

11 Pages

Hepatocyte Aggregate Formation on Chitin-Based Anisotropic Microstructures of Butterfly Wings

Abdelrahman Elbaz,
Bingbing Gao,
Zhenzhu He and
Zhongze Gu

Biomimetics2018, 3(1), 2;https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics3010002

18 January 2018

Scaffold nanotopography plays the most significant role in the mimicry of the in vivo microenvironment of the hepatocytes. Several attempts have been made to develop methods and substrates suited to growing hepatocytes into aggregates. Functional bio...

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