TY - GEN
T1 - Tubular gel motility driven by chemical reaction networks
AU - Mikanohara, Takashi
AU - Maeda, Shingo
AU - Hara, Yusuke
AU - Hashimoto, Shuji
N1 - Funding Information:
researcher in Nanosystem Research Institute (NRI), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central 5-2, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan. He received his MS degree from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan in 2001. From 2001 to 2007, he worked Lion Corporation, Research and development center, Tokyo, Japan. He received his Dr Eng. Degrees in Department of Materials Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2007. His research interests are polymer science, gel and non-linear chemistry. He is a member of the Chemical Society of Japan and the Society of Polymer Science, Japan.
Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Global COE Program ‘Global Robot Academia’ from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan; Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research (24656177); Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) (23686043); Grant for Advanced Industrial Technology Development from New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - A novel gel actuator exhibits a peristaltic motion is designed. We proposed a new approach of coupling an acid autocatalytic reaction and a pH-responsive gel in order to cause contraction waves. The poly(AAm-co-AAc) microphase-separated tubular gel was synthesized, which can be inflowed reaction solution to its hollow. We focused on its kinetics and evaluated the characteristics of the microphase-separated gels. And we also demonstrated that the propagation of the contraction region occurs in the tubular gel. Our final goal is to develop a biomimetic chemical robot which realizes a peristaltic locomotion by forming contraction waves like a snail.
AB - A novel gel actuator exhibits a peristaltic motion is designed. We proposed a new approach of coupling an acid autocatalytic reaction and a pH-responsive gel in order to cause contraction waves. The poly(AAm-co-AAc) microphase-separated tubular gel was synthesized, which can be inflowed reaction solution to its hollow. We focused on its kinetics and evaluated the characteristics of the microphase-separated gels. And we also demonstrated that the propagation of the contraction region occurs in the tubular gel. Our final goal is to develop a biomimetic chemical robot which realizes a peristaltic locomotion by forming contraction waves like a snail.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181586
DO - 10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181586
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860745740
SN - 9781457721373
T3 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011
SP - 2008
EP - 2013
BT - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011
Y2 - 7 December 2011 through 11 December 2011
ER -