A design of self-sustained gel actuator

Terukazu Kato; Naoki Hosoya; Shingo Maeda

doi:10.1109/URAI.2013.6677465

A design of self-sustained gel actuator

Terukazu Kato, Naoki Hosoya, Shingo Maeda

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Abstract

Many types of stimuli-sensitive gels have been studied and applied to soft actuators with the progress of the functional materials. Especially, electro-active polymer gels seem to be promising. In all cases, however, the mechanical motion is powered by electric stimuli. Herein we show the self-susteined gel actuator driven by chemical energy. The polymer gels can undergo periodic expansion and contraction without external stimuli. The volume oscillation is induced by the oscillatory Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction, producing displacement up to 10 to 100 μm. Here it is shown that the applying load to the polymer gels substantially improves the actuation performance. The actuated displacement up to 1.15mm were demonstrated. This novel active gels reported in this paper is excellent tools for the successful design and use of the electric-free actuators.

Original language	English
Pages	34-36
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/URAI.2013.6677465
Publication status	Published - 2013 Jan 1
Event	2013 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, URAI 2013 - Jeju, Korea, Republic of Duration: 2013 Oct 30 → 2013 Nov 2

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Conference	2013 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, URAI 2013
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Jeju
Period	13/10/30 → 13/11/2

Keywords

Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction
Gel
Microphase Separation
Self-Oscillation
Soft actuator

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction

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