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Robotics: Photoresponsive Soft‐Robotic Platform: Biomimetic Fabrication and Remote Actuation (Adv. Funct. Mater. 48/2014)

Weitao Jiang, Dong Niu, Hongzhong Liu, Chaohui Wang, Tingting Zhao, Lei Yin, Yongsheng Shi, Bangdao Chen, Yucheng Ding, Bingheng Lu

Year
2014
Citations
5
Access
Open access

Abstract

Artificial fish swim in water in a controllable manner remotely driven by near infrared light (nIR). On page 7598, W. Jiang, H. Liu, and co-workers present a fish-like soft robot constituted by a PDMS/graphene-nanoplatelets composited layer (PDMS/GNPs) and a pristine PDMS layer, and can bend to the PDMS/GNPs side when actuated by nIR irradiation. The locomotion of the artificial fish in water can be remotely and precisely controlled by localized nIR irradiation, that is, swimming forward, backward, and turning around.

Keywords

Soft roboticsMaterials scienceFabricationGrapheneIrradiationNanotechnologyFish <Actinopterygii>Layer (electronics)RobotComputer science

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