Hydrogels: Designed Autonomic Motion in Heterogeneous Belousov–Zhabotinsky

Hydrogels: Designed Autonomic Motion in Heterogeneous Belousov–Zhabotinsky

On page 2835 Richard A. Vaia and co‐workers discuss a novel design‐fabrication concept for autonomic materials, where the size and arrangement of active‐nodes enables the natural hydrogel to feed off of ambient chemical energy and convert it to mechanical motion in a biomimetic fashion. The image sh...

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced functional materials 2013-06, Vol.23 (22), p.2786-2786
Hauptverfasser: Smith, Matthew L, Slone, Connor, Heitfeld, Kevin, Vaia, Richard A
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Actuators
Biomimetics
Chemical energy
Hydrogels
Materials science
Nodes
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Zusammenfassung:On page 2835 Richard A. Vaia and co‐workers discuss a novel design‐fabrication concept for autonomic materials, where the size and arrangement of active‐nodes enables the natural hydrogel to feed off of ambient chemical energy and convert it to mechanical motion in a biomimetic fashion. The image shows oscillating chemomechanical nodes and a model of the coupled oscillations producing an actuator. Lauren Aprill is acknowledged for the design of the inside cover.
ISSN:1616-301X
1616-3028
DOI:10.1002/adfm.201370109