Bioinspired Actuators Based on Stimuli-Responsive Polymers

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Organisms exhibit strong environmental adaptability by controllably adjusting their morphologies or fast locomotion; thus providing constant inspiration for scientists to develop artificial actuators that not only have diverse and sophisticated shape-morphing capabilities, but can also further transfer dynamic and reversible shape deformations into macroscopic motion under the following principles: asymmetric friction, the Marangoni effect, and counteracting forces of the surrounding conditions. Among numerous available materials for fabricating bioinspired artificial actuators, stimuli-responsive polymers are superior in their flexible features and the ability to change their physicochemical properties dynamically under external stimuli, such as temperature, pH, light, and ionic strength. Herein, different mechanisms, working principles, and applications of stimuli-responsive polymeric actuators are comprehensively introduced. Furthermore, perspectives on existing challenges and future directions of this field are provided.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Chemistry, an Asian journal - 14(2019), 14 vom: 15. Juli, Seite 2369-2387

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cui, Huanqing [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Qilong [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yunlong [VerfasserIn]
Du, Xuemin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Artificial actuators
Bioinspired materials
Journal Article
Molecular devices
Polymers
Review
Stimuli-responsive materials

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Date Revised 29.07.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/asia.201900292

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM295464062