Chemical robots-design of active soft materials

Shingo Maeda; Yusuke Hara; Shuji Hashimoto

doi:10.1109/HSI.2011.5937404

Chemical robots-design of active soft materials

Shingo Maeda^*, Yusuke Hara, Shuji Hashimoto

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Abstract

Here, we introduce autonomous gel actuators driven by the chemical energy. The polymer gels prepared here have cyclic chemical reaction networks. With a cyclic reaction, the polymer gels generate periodical motion. The periodic motion of the gel is produced by the chemical energy of the oscillatory Belouzov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction. We have succeeded in making the synthetic polymer gel move autonomously like a living organism. This experimental fact represents the great possibility of the chemical robot.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	4th International Conference on Human System Interaction, HSI 2011
Pages	427-430
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HSI.2011.5937404
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	4th International Conference on Human System Interaction, HSI 2011 - Yokohama Duration: 2011 May 19 → 2011 May 21

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Other	4th International Conference on Human System Interaction, HSI 2011
City	Yokohama
Period	11/5/19 → 11/5/21

Keywords

active material
Gel actuator
Soft robot

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Human-Computer Interaction

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