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Aquabots

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Publication Years
2022
DOI
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ISSN
1936-0851
EISSN
1936-086X
Abstract
Soft robots, made from elastomers, easily bend and flex, but deformability constraints severely limit navigation through and within narrow, confined spaces. Using aqueous two-phase systems we print water-in-water constructs that, by aqueous phase-separation-induced self-assembly, produce ultrasoft liquid robots, termed aquabots, comprised of hierarchical structures that span in length scale from the nanoscopic to microsciopic, that are beyond the resolution limits of printing and overcome the deformability barrier. The exterior of the compartmentalized membranes is easily functionalized, for example, by binding enzymes, catalytic nanoparticles, and magnetic nanoparticles that impart sensitive magnetic responsiveness. These ultrasoft aquabots can adapt their shape for gripping and transporting objects and can be used for targeted photocatalysis, delivery, and release in confined and tortuous spaces. These biocompatible, multicompartmental, and multifunctional aquabots can be readily applied to medical micromanipulation, targeted cargo delivery, tissue engineering, and biomimetics.
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SCI ; EI
Language
English
Important Publications
NI Journal Papers
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WOS Research Area
Chemistry ; Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Materials Science
WOS Subject
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary ; Chemistry, Physical ; Nanoscience & Nanotechnology ; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
WOS Accession No
WOS:000848290600001
Publisher
EI Accession Number
20223412607021
EI Keywords
3D printers ; Biocompatibility ; Biomimetics ; Deformation ; Hierarchical systems ; Robots ; Self assembly ; Solvent extraction ; Tissue engineering
ESI Classification Code
Biomedical Engineering:461.1 ; Biotechnology:461.8 ; Biology:461.9 ; Immunology:461.9.1 ; Thermodynamics:641.1 ; Robotics:731.5 ; Printing Equipment:745.1.1 ; Chemical Operations:802.3 ; Materials Science:951 ; Systems Science:961
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85136114442
Data Source
Scopus
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Cited Times [WOS]:4
Document TypeJournal Article
Identifierhttp://kc.sustech.edu.cn/handle/2SGJ60CL/395638
DepartmentDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Affiliation
1.Department of Mechanical Engineering,The University of Hong Kong,999077,Hong Kong
2.Materials Sciences Division,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,Berkeley,94720,United States
3.Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre,Hong Kong Science Park,Shatin,New Territories,999077,Hong Kong
4.School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,National Engineering Research Center for Colloidal Materials,Shandong University,Jinan,250100,China
5.Department of Chemistry,University College London,London,WC1H 0AJ,United Kingdom
6.Department of Physics,The City University of Hong Kong,Kowloon,83 Tat Chee Avenue,999077,Hong Kong
7.Department of Engineering,University of Cambridge,Cambridge,Trumpington Street,CB2 1PZ,United Kingdom
8.Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen,518055,China
9.Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization,Göttingen,37077,Germany
10.Department of Physics,Harvard University,Cambridge,02138,United States
11.Polymer Science and Engineering Department,University of Massachusetts,Amherst,01003,United States
12.Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering,Beijing University of Chemical Technology,Beijing,100029,China
13.WPI-Advanced Institute for Materials Research,Tohoku University,Sendai,980-8577,Japan
14.College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,Hunan University,Changsha,410082,China
Recommended Citation
GB/T 7714
Zhu,Shipei,Xie,Ganhua,Cui,Huanqing,et al. Aquabots[J]. ACS Nano,2022.
APA
Zhu,Shipei.,Xie,Ganhua.,Cui,Huanqing.,Li,Qingchuan.,Forth,Joe.,...&Shum,Ho Cheung.(2022).Aquabots.ACS Nano.
MLA
Zhu,Shipei,et al."Aquabots".ACS Nano (2022).
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