SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL
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2025
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IF 4.9
Xiaowen Wang,Yingnan Gao,Changyou Liu,Yaping Wang,Anqin Liu,Wenguang Yang
Robots have a profound impact on human production and life, which have been developed by leaps and bounds in recent decades. As the higher and higher requirements for operations in complex environments, researchers continue to develop wireless driven miniature robots. In this paper, the ratio and deformation properties of PNIPAM and PEGDA hydrogels were researched, and the microcrawls and microgrippers with 3D structure were prepared through secondary curing technology. They have light stimulus response and magnetic response characteristics, and can be reversibly transformed from 3D to 2D structure to complete crawling and transportation functions. This research offers a reference for the fabrication and programmable actuation of intelligent materials. It holds certain promise in the domains of transportation and bionics.
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材料科学
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仿生学
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机器人技术
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Journal of Bionic Engineering
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2021
·Vol. 18
·期 5
·1168-1178
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IF 2.682
Liao Chenchen,Xia Yurou,Keshen A. Yinaer Nu,Dai Boya,Zhao Song’an,Hu Ziqing,Zheng Zaihang,Liu Yan
Inspired by nature, a superhydrophobic and magnetic melamine sponge (BFSM-MF) was fabricated by a one-step dip-coating method. Aiming at replacing nano-Fe 3 O 4 particles with a complex preparation process and high cost, the commercial and cheap Fe 3 O 4 originated from magnetite was employed as a magnetic substance. To acquire superhydrophobicity, the hierarchical mirco/nano-sized structure with low surface energy was mainly contributed by bonding hydrophobic Fe 3 O 4 and graphene with silicone resin onto the surface of the melamine sponge. The results demonstrated that the water and oil static contact angle values of BFSM-MF were 160° and 0°, revealing that BFSM-MF was superhydrophobic and super-oleophilic. Moreover, the self-cleaning ability, magnetic-driven oil absorption ability and continuous oil–water separation performance of BFSM-MF have also been evaluated. As expected, BFSM-MF possessed magnetic-driven oil absorption ability and the oil–water separation efficiency for light oil reaches 98% ± 1%. In addition, the adsorption capacity and recycling performance of different organic solvents were systematically investigated. Therefore, the development of biomimetic, fluorine-free and superhydrophobic foam with magnetic-driven effect has potential application value in marine oil spill treatment and separation of domestic oil pollution.
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材料科学
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环境科学
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2024
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IF 8.1
Zhiyong Ran,Tieyan Si,Xiankun Lin,Yue Li,Jie Han,Qiang He
Enantioselective separation plays a crucial role in pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and food industries. To improve the efficiency of enantioselective separation is still highly desirable and challenging. Here, an enantioseparation method was developed by employing magnetically-propelled microbots. The microbots were fabricated by sputter coating of the Ni layer onto the helical polyaniline (PANI) microfibers. Under a conical magnetic field, microbots exhibited the rotation-swing forward motion. Physical simulation showed that motion of the microbots leads to the forming of turbulence, showing micro-mixing effect and enhanced fluid diffusion. The microbots displayed higher separation efficiency and better stability for enantioselective separation of four kinds of racemic amino acids, compared to the PANI microfibers, with the enantiomeric excess (ee%) of 69.8 % for alanine. Magnetically-propelled motion of the microbots should increase the possibility of collision and recognition of amino acids with the PANI, enabling the improvement of the enantioseparation efficiency. This microbot-based methodology paves a promising way for highly efficient enantioselective separation.
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材料科学
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生物医学工程
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制药工程
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Micro & Nano Letters
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2021
·Vol. 16
·期 12
·582-590
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IF 1.102
Runhuai Yang,Shilu Zhu,Lijiu Zhang,Fuzhou Niu,Shuang Liu
Soft untethered microswimmers have recently been demonstrated to be capable of transporting and delivering cargos by external control while maintaining biocompatibility and safety. However, such microswimmers still suffer from complex and inconvenient fabrication processes and control methods, which impedes their clinical translation. In this paper, an easy-to-fabricate, magnetic-driven and IR-induced shape transformative microswimmer is presented. This microswimmer can be fabricated in a fast, low-cost and high-throughput manner. Besides, the soft body of the microswimmer can provide an inherent friendly contact with the biological environment, and its components are biocompatible and biodegradable. Being magnetically-drivable allows the microswimmer to provide untethered movement and targeted therapy in the human body, and its IR-induced shape transformability enables penetrable regulation of the movement and function. Furthermore, the shape of the untethered microswimmer can be transformed due to its combination of low melting behaviours and multi-response materials, suggesting that other materials with similar properties can also be adopted in a similar method. The proposed method validates the feasibility to integrate polymers for fabricating magnetic-driven, infrared-responsive and shape transformative microswimmers.
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医学工程
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材料科学
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Additive Manufacturing
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2024
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IF 10.3
Youchao Zhang,Xiaoyang Zhu,Huangyu Chen,Ruichen Wang,Siqi Qiu,Houchao Zhang,Hongke Li,Zhenghao Li,Rui Wang,Fan Zhang,Guangming Zhang,Yuan-Fang Zhang,Dong Wang,Hongbo Lan
Reconfigurable magnetic soft machines have a wide range of applications in soft robotics, aerospace, medical devices and flexible electronics. However, the high-precision reconfiguration of magnetically actuated soft machines is hindered by the absence of rational structural design and integrated manufacturing techniques. Here, we report an innovative design and manufacturing approach to realize magnetically actuated high-precision reconfigurability. We present a crease-assisted pixelated design using a mixture of magnetic particles and phase-change medium as the pixel points, with an elastomer as the crease to connect the pixel points, simulating origami. The design of elastomer creases improves pixel stiffness without loss of reconfigurable accuracy, thereby significantly improves the magnetic particle concentration in the pixel. An effective multi-material 3D printing technique is used to achieve the integrated printing of the designed structure. The resulting magnetically actuated soft machines exhibit remarkable capabilities, achieving small curvature bending and precise reconfiguration with weaker actuating magnetic fields (100mT). The superior performance of this design has been confirmed through demonstrations of crawling and rolling machines, magnetically controlled switches, and logic circuits. The work enhances the reconfiguration accuracy of magnetically actuated soft machines, increasing their potential for soft robotics and flexible electronics applications.
研究领域:
软体机器人学
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柔性电子
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材料科学
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Additive Manufacturing
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2021
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IF 10.998
Guangbin Shao,Henry Oliver T. Ware,Jigang Huang,Rihan Hai,Longqiu Li,Cheng Sun
The emerging trend towards miniaturization of robotic grippers is motivated by the needs for precise manipulation of smaller objects within confined spaces. However, it faces a multitude of challenges in micro-fabricating, assembling, and actuating the grippers with increasingly smaller dimensions. To overcome these challenges, we report here a method to 3D print a magnetically-driven triple-finger micro-gripper for robust micro-manipulation in air and water. Magnetic actuation was chosen for its advantage of untethered operation in complex surroundings. Mitigating the trade-off between mechanical compliance and magnetic actuation forces , the monolithic micro-gripper design comprising compliant mechanical flexures and magnetic force actuation units was rapidly fabricated using micro-continuous liquid interface production (μCLIP) process. Finally, we attached the 3D printed gripper to a robotic arm and demonstrated its ability to manipulate micro objects both air and water. This work may enable potential biological and biomedical applications such as operation of live cells and soft tissues.
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机器人学
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生物医学工程
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2015
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IF 6.723
Ran Du,Qiuchen Zhao,Pan Li,Huaying Ren,Xin Gao,Jin Zhang
A quartz fiber based 3D monolithic materials was fabricated, which combines ultrahigh thermostability, remote controllability, mechanical flexibility, high water/oil selectivity, high processing capacity, and regeneration ability. This material exhibited great potential in water remediation, such as large absorption capacity (50- to 172-fold weight gain) toward oil standing in front of all magnetic sorbents and remarkable oil/water separation performance.
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材料科学
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环境科学
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高影响因子
Polymers
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2022
·Vol. 14
·期 24
·5509
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IF 4.967
Haoying Wang,Xiaoxia Song,Junfeng Xiong,U Kei Cheang
Magnetically actuated microrobots showed increasing potential in various fields, especially in the biomedical area, such as invasive surgery, targeted cargo delivery, and treatment. However, it remains a challenge to incorporate biocompatible natural polymers that are favorable for practical biomedical applications. In this work, bilayer magnetic microrobots with an achiral planar design were fabricated using a biocompatible natural polymer and Fe3O4nanoparticles through the photolithography by applying the layer-by-layer method. The microrobots consisted of a magnetic bottom layer and a photo-crosslinked chitosan top layer. The SEM results showed that the microrobot processed the L-shaped planar structure with the average width, length, and thickness of 99.18 ± 5.11 μm, 189.56 ± 11.37 μm, and 23.56 ± 4.08 μm, respectively. Moreover, microrobots actuated using a three-dimensional (3D) Helmholtz coil system was characterized and reached up to an average maximum velocity of 325.30 μm/s and a step-out frequency of 14 Hz. Furthermore, the microrobots exhibited excellent cell biocompatibility towards L929 cells in the CCK-8 assay. Therefore, the development of bi-layered chitosan-based microrobots offers a general solution for using magnetic microrobots in biomedical applications by providing an easy-to-fabricate, highly mobile microrobotic platform with the incorporation of biocompatible natural polymers for enhanced biocompatibility.Keywords:chitosan;microrobot;photolithography;natural polymer;magnetic actuation
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生物医学工程
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材料科学
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MOLECULES
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2023
·Vol. 28
·期 7
·3048
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IF 4.6
Dejia Geng,Lei Chen,Sinan Du,Xiang Yang,Huaguang Wang,Zexin Zhang
The immense potential of active colloids in practical applications and fundamental research calls for an efficient method to synthesize active colloids of high uniformity. Herein, a facile method is reported to synthesize uniform organic–inorganic hybrid active colloids based on the wetting effect of polystyrene (PS) with photoresponsive inorganic nanoparticles in a tetrahydrofuran/water mixture. The results show that a range of dimer active colloids can be produced by using different inorganic components, such as AgCl, ZnO, TiO2, and Fe2O3nanoparticles. Moreover, the strategy provides a simple way to prepare dual-drive active colloids by a rational selection of the starting organic materials, such as magnetic PS particles that result in light and magnet dual-drive active colloids. The motions of these active colloids are quantified, and well-controlled movements are demonstrated.Keywords:active colloids;polymeric colloids;wetting effects
研究领域:
材料科学
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纳米技术
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胶体化学
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PubMed
高影响因子
LANGMUIR
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2024
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IF 3.7
Zhishuang Han,Xinmeng Lv,Yingge Li,Meihuan Gao,Zhenlin Tang,Xinying Su,Ziyang Zhang,Haidi Li,Jing He,Zaihang Zheng,Yan Liu
For settling the recycling problem of waste polyurethane sponges (PU) and environment pollution of oil spills simultaneously, this work exploited the multifunctional superhydrophobic PU materials via the dip-coating method, which were prepared by anchoring modified Fe3O4 and expandable graphite (EG) on PU sponges under the adhesion effect of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). The water contact angle and sliding angle of as-prepared PU sponges reached 154.1 ± 1.6 and 8°, respectively. Most importantly, the superhydrophobic PU sponges were endowed with the multipath oil treatment ability, which consisted of magnetically driven, gravity-driven, peristaltic pump-driven, and photothermally driven modes. Besides, the light oil absorption capacity, separation flux, and efficiency for superhydrophobic PU sponges reached 23.9 g/g, 27779 L m–2 h–1, and 99.5%, respectively. Owing to the photothermal conversion ability of Fe3O4 and EG, the temperature of superhydrophobic PU sponges was raised to 71.5 °C within 233 s under 1.2 solar irradiation (1200 W/m2), demonstrating its absorption potential for high-viscosity crude oils. In addition, the prepared sponges exhibited good chemical/mechanical stability, self-cleaning, and flame retardancy. In a nutshell, this article has evolved an environmentally benign and practical method for fabricating the multifunctional materials in oil spill treatment, which will efficiently accomplish the targets of low carbon and environmental management.
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材料科学
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环境科学
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Polymer Chemistry
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2013
·Vol. 5
·期 7
·2382-2390
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IF 5.231
Lei Wu,Junping Zhang,Bucheng Li,Aiqin Wang
A facile approach for preparing magnetically driven durable superhydrophobic polyester materials is developed by simply dip-coating in a nanocomposite solution. The nanocomposite is prepared by the polymerization of tetraethoxysilane and n-hexadecyltriethoxysilane in the presence of the Fe3O4 nanoparticles. The coated magnetic samples exhibit excellent superhydrophobicity, superoleophilicity, and mechanical and chemical stability, owing to the tight binding of the nanocomposite on the polyester materials and the inherent stability of the polymerized organosilanes. The superhydrophobic materials can quickly absorb petrol, diesel and crude oil, and show very high selectivity in oil/water separation. In addition, the superhydrophobic materials could maintain their superhydrophobicity, oil absorption capacity and oil/water selectivity after a large amount of mechanical damage, 90 days of immersion in oil and ten cycles of absorption–desorption. Moreover, the coated sample can be magnetically driven to the polluted water zone using a magnet. Also, the facile approach can be easily scaled up for producing samples on a large scale, which makes it very promising for practical oil absorption.
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材料科学
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环境科学
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Nano Today
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2025
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IF 10.9
Kecheng Quan,Yupu Lu,Ting Zhang,Shuren Wang,Hao Tang,Chunhao Yu,Yongsheng Zhou,Yunsong Liu,Dandan Xia,Yufeng Zheng
Antimicrobial coatings with the capabilities to prevent and treat biofilm infections on implant are promising surface treatment strategies, but it is difficult to eradicate an already-formed biofilm by the coating. Magnetically-drivable coatings can physically destruct the surface-attached biofilm to enhance antimicrobial killing. However, current magnetic coatings cannot inhibit the initial bacteria growth and the demand of coating stability restricts their magnetic controllability. Herein, a magnetically-drivable, pH-responsive coating is developed by simply mixing Fe 3 O 4 and ZIF-8 nanoparticles on titanium surface. In physiological pH, Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles are stable and non-magnetically drivable on surface due to charge attractions and electrostatic interactions. While in acidic pH caused by bacterial growth, ZIF-8 degradation is significantly accelerated, releasing Zn 2 + and recovering the magnetic controllability of Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles. The released Zn 2+ kills the initially-attached bacteria, inhibiting subsequent biofilm formation. Once a biofilm has formed, Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles can be magnetically pulled-off to destruct the biofilm structure and then enhance antibiotic killing. The Fe 3 O 4 /ZIF-8 coating shows excellent biocompatibility and osteogenesis to compare with bare Ti disc. Animal experiments further proved the in-vivo antimicrobial and osteogenic performances of the coating. Therefore, this work put forward a new surface strategy to solve biofilm-related infections on implants.
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生物材料学
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医学工程
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微生物学
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