Dr Majid Taghavi
BSc, MSc, PhD, FAHE
All Publications
2025
- Electroactive Twisted Ribbon for Torsional Zipping Actuator
Sun W, Liu J, Xu Y, Li J, Taghavi M
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 10 (9), 8834-8841.
01-09-2025 - Electric Field Driven Soft Morphing Matter
Xu C, Faul CFJ, Taghavi M, Rossiter J
Advanced Materials, Wiley
12-06-2025 - Monolithic electrostatic actuators with independent stiffness modulation
Xu Y, Wen J, Burdet E, Taghavi M
Nature Communications, Springer Science and Business Media Llc vol. 16 (1)
30-01-2025 - A flexi-limbed electroactive frame for gripping and locomotion: Structural optimization
Sun W, Xu Y, Taghavi M
International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Elsevier Bv vol. 286, 109862-109862.
01-01-2025 - Piezo-Ionic Actuator for Haptic Feedback
André AD, Coondoo I, Bdikin I, K.B. VK, Pinto RMR, Martins P, Taghavi M
Sensors and Actuators a: Physical, Elsevier Bv vol. 381, 116038-116038.
01-01-2025
2024
- Electromechanical model for electro-ribbon actuators
Xu Y, Burdet E, Taghavi M
International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Elsevier Bv vol. 275, 109340-109340.
01-08-2024 - 3D-ElectroZip touch: multi-directional haptic feedback with electro-ribbon zipping actuators
Pan Y, Hou N, Sun W, Taghavi M
Smart Materials and Structures, IOP Publishing vol. 33 (8), 085030-085030.
22-07-2024 - Origami‐Inspired Modular Electro‐Ribbon Actuator for Multi‐Degrees of Freedom Motion
Hou N, Wen J, Pan Y, Taghavi M
Advanced Intelligent Systems, Wiley vol. 6 (6)
08-04-2024
2023
- Electrically Zipping Bending Actuators for Prosthetic Fingers
Fraai T, Wen J, Taghavi M
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 8 (11), 7472-7478.
01-11-2023 - Electric Field‐Driven Dielectrophoretic Elastomer Actuators
Xu C, Faul CFJ, Taghavi M, Rossiter J
Advanced Functional Materials, Wiley vol. 33 (13)
05-02-2023
2022
- Stiffness Graded Electroactive Artificial Muscle
Taghavi M, Chen H, Conn AT, Rossiter J
Advanced Functional Materials, Wiley vol. 32 (39)
14-07-2022 - Liquid-amplified zipping actuators for micro-air vehicles with transmission-free flapping
Helps T, Romero C, Taghavi M, Conn AT, Rossiter J
Science Robotics, American Association For The Advancement of Science (Aaas) vol. 7 (63)
23-02-2022 - Reactive Jetting of High Viscosity Nanocomposites for Dielectric Elastomer Actuation
Malas A, Saleh E, Giménez‐López MDC, Rance GA, Helps T, Taghavi M, Rossiter JM, Tuck CJ et al.
Advanced Materials Technologies, Wiley vol. 7 (6)
17-01-2022
2021
- Electro-lattice actuator: a compliant high-contractile active lattice structure
Hoh S, Helps T, Diteesawat RS, Taghavi M, Rossiter J
Smart Materials and Structures, IOP Publishing vol. 30 (12), 125034-125034.
15-11-2021 - FleXert: A Soft, Actuatable Multiwell Plate Insert for Cell Culture under Stretch
Correia Carreira S, Taghavi M, Pavez Loriè E, Rossiter J
Acs Biomaterials Science &Amp; Engineering, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 7 (6), 2225-2245.
12-04-2021 - Characteristic Analysis and Design Optimization of Bubble Artificial Muscles
Diteesawat RS, Helps T, Taghavi M, Rossiter J
Soft Robotics, Mary Ann Liebert Inc vol. 8 (2), 186-199.
01-04-2021 - Electro-pneumatic pumps for soft robotics
Diteesawat RS, Helps T, Taghavi M, Rossiter J
Science Robotics, American Association For The Advancement of Science (Aaas) vol. 6 (51)
24-02-2021
2020
- Closed-Loop Control of Electro-Ribbon Actuators
Diteesawat RS, Fishman A, Helps T, Taghavi M, Rossiter J
Frontiers in Robotics and Ai, Frontiers Media Sa vol. 7
16-11-2020 - Self-Sensing Electro-Ribbon Actuators
Bluett S, Helps T, Taghavi M, Rossiter J
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 5 (3), 3931-3936.
01-07-2020 - Twisted Rubber Variable-Stiffness Artificial Muscles
Helps T, Taghavi M, Wang S, Rossiter J
Soft Robotics, Mary Ann Liebert Inc vol. 7 (3), 386-395.
01-06-2020
2019
- Electroactive Textile Actuators for Breathability Control and Thermal Regulation Devices
Xiang C, Guo J, Sun R, Hinitt A, Helps T, Taghavi M, Rossiter J
Polymers, Mdpi Ag vol. 11 (7), 1199-1199.
18-07-2019 - Thermoplastic electroactive gels for 3D-printable artificial muscles
Helps T, Taghavi M, Rossiter J
Smart Materials and Structures, IOP Publishing vol. 28 (8), 085001-085001.
21-06-2019
2018
- Electro-ribbon actuators and electro-origami robots
Taghavi M, Helps T, Rossiter J
Science Robotics, American Association For The Advancement of Science (Aaas) vol. 3 (25)
19-12-2018 - Self-Powered Plasmonic UV Detector, Based on Reduced Graphene Oxide/Ag Nanoparticles
Keshvari A, Darbari S, Taghavi M
IEEE Electron Device Letters, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 39 (9), 1433-1436.
01-09-2018 - 3D-Printed Ready-To-Use Variable-Stiffness Structures
Taghavi M, Helps T, Huang B, Rossiter J
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 3 (3), 2402-2407.
01-07-2018
2016
- Soft Robotics Mechanosensing
Beccai L, Lucarotti C, Totaro M, Taghavi M
, Springer International Publishing, 11-21.
22-09-2016
2015
- Self sufficient wireless transmitter powered by foot-pumped urine operating wearable MFC
Taghavi M, Stinchcombe A, Greenman J, Mattoli V, Beccai L, Mazzolai B, Melhuish C, Ieropoulos IA
Bioinspiration &Amp; Biomimetics, IOP Publishing vol. 11 (1), 016001-016001.
10-12-2015 - A contact-key triboelectric nanogenerator: Theoretical and experimental study on motion speed influence
Taghavi M, Beccai L
Nano Energy, Elsevier Bv vol. 18, 283-292.
01-11-2015 - Triboelectric smart machine elements and self-powered encoder
Taghavi M, Sadeghi A, Mondini A, Mazzolai B, Beccai L, Mattoli V
Nano Energy, Elsevier Bv vol. 13, 92-102.
01-04-2015
2014
- High‐Performance, Totally Flexible, Tubular Microbial Fuel Cell
Taghavi M, Greenman J, Beccai L, Mattoli V, Mazzolai B, Melhuish C, Ieropoulos IA
Chemelectrochem, Wiley vol. 1 (11), 1994-1999.
29-08-2014 - A Novel Soft Metal‐Polymer Composite for Multidirectional Pressure Energy Harvesting
Taghavi M, Mattoli V, Sadeghi A, Mazzolai B, Beccai L
Advanced Energy Materials, Wiley vol. 4 (12)
02-05-2014
2013
- Synthesizing tubular and trapezoidal shaped ZnO nanowires by an aqueous solution method
Taghavi M, Mattoli V, Mazzolai B, Filippeschi C, Beccai L
Nanoscale, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 5 (8), 3505-3505.
01-01-2013
2011
- Design and simulation of a micro-channel for separating the particles with nearly constant dielectrophoretic force in channel space
Taghavi M, Bahrami M
Molecular Simulation, Informa Uk Limited vol. 37 (10), 865-874.
01-09-2011