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- Xinjian Fan
- Physical Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart 70569, Germany;
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- Xiaoguang Dong
- Physical Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart 70569, Germany;
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- Alp C. Karacakol
- Physical Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart 70569, Germany;
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- Hui Xie
- State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, China;
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- Metin Sitti
- Physical Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart 70569, Germany;
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2020-10-26
- 権利情報
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- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- DOI
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- 10.1073/pnas.2016388117
- 公開者
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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説明
<jats:title>Significance</jats:title> <jats:p>This work proposes reconfigurable multifunctional ferrofluid droplets as soft robots to overcome the limitation of existing magnetically actuated miniature soft robots based on elastomers, i.e., they cannot navigate inside very clustered and constrained spaces and reconfigure their shapes in situ for diverse tasks, due to limited deformability and predesigned shapes. We propose a fundamental mechanism of controlling reconfigurable large deformation (e.g., splitting) and coordinated motions of multiple ferrofluid droplets by programming external magnetic fields spatiotemporally. We employ this mechanism to achieve multiple functionalities, including on-demand liquid-cargo delivery, morphing for efficient and versatile manipulation of delicate objects, and programmable fluidic-mixing function, potentially enabling unprecedented functionalities in lab/organ-on-a-chip, fluidics, bioengineering, and medical device applications, beyond magnetically actuated elastomer-based soft robots.</jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (45), 27916-27926, 2020-10-26
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences