A Review of Smart Materials in Tactile Actuators for Information Delivery The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Xie, Xin et al. "A Review of Smart Materials in Tactile Actuators for Information Delivery." C: Journal of Carbon Research 3, 4 (December 2017): 38 © 2017 The Author(s) As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/c3040038 Publisher MDPI AG Version Final published version Citable link http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113379 Terms of Use Creative Commons Attribution Detailed Terms http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Journal of C Carbon Research Review A Review of Smart Materials in Tactile Actuators for Information Delivery Xin Xie 1, Sanwei Liu 1, Chenye Yang 2, Zhengyu Yang 3 ID , Tian Liu 1, Juncai Xu 4, Cheng Zhang 5,* and Xianglin Zhai 6,* 1 Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
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[email protected] (X.Z.) Received: 23 August 2017; Accepted: 5 December 2017; Published: 8 December 2017 Abstract: As the largest organ in the human body, the skin provides the important sensory channel for humans to receive external stimulations based on touch.