From Light-Powered Motors, to Micro-Grippers, to Crawling Caterpillars, Snails and Beyond—Light-Responsive Oriented Polymers in Action

From Light-Powered Motors, to Micro-Grippers, to Crawling Caterpillars, Snails and Beyond—Light-Responsive Oriented Polymers in Action

“How would you build a robot, the size of a bacteria, powered by light, that would swim towards the light source, escape from it, or could be controlled by means of different light colors, intensities or polarizations?” This was the question that Professor Diederik Wiersma asked PW on a sunny spring...

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Main Authors: Mikołaj Rogóż, Zofia Dziekan, Klaudia Dradrach, Michał Zmyślony, Paweł Nałęcz-Jawecki, Przemysław Grabowski, Bartosz Fabjanowicz, Magdalena Podgórska, Anna Kudzia, Piotr Wasylczyk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-11-01
Series:Materials
Subjects:
light-responsive materials
liquid crystal elastomers
micro-robotics
soft robotics
actuators
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/15/22/8214

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