Data related to the manuscript "Hot Fingers: Individually Addressable Graphene-Decorated Liquid Crystal Actuators"

In the manuscript related to this dataset, we present two gripper devices with four individually addressable liquid-crystal network (LCN) actuators thermally driven via printed graphene-based heating elements. The resistive heat from the graphene heating elements causes the LCN actuator to bend due to the anisotropic volume expansions of the splay-aligned LCN substrate. We also present a heat transfer model to estimate actuator dimensions, power production and necessary resistance required to achieve the desired temperatures for actuation. This dataset provides the underlying data needed to reproduce the findings, as well as the heat model calculations. It also includes videos which demonstrate the individual actuator fingers as well as two gripper prototypes in action.

在与本数据集相关的研究手稿中，我们报道了两款夹持器装置，其搭载四个可独立寻址的液晶网络（liquid-crystal network, LCN）驱动器，该驱动器由印刷石墨烯基加热元件实现热驱动。石墨烯加热元件产生的电阻热，会因展向排列的LCN基底发生各向异性体积膨胀，进而使LCN驱动器产生弯曲形变。我们同时提出了一款传热模型，用于估算驱动器的尺寸、功率输出以及实现目标驱动温度所需的电阻值。本数据集提供了复现该研究结果所需的基础数据，以及传热模型的计算结果。此外，数据集还包含演示各驱动器指状单元与两款夹持器原型工作状态的视频文件。