Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots.

By S. Palagi, A. Mark, S. Y. Reigh, K. Melde, T. Qiu, Hao Zeng, C. Parmeggiani, D. Martella, A. Sanchez-Castillo, N. Kapernaum and 4 more. Nature Materials, 2016

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Subfields: Condensed Matter Physics, Mechanical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Harnessing bistability for directional propulsion of soft, untethered robots (2018, background): “Future improvements of this technology could include the use of prestrained materials (34), reversible SMPs (37), or liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) (38, 39) in the muscles.”
• Bioinspired underwater locomotion of light-driven liquid crystal gels (2020, positive): “With respect to the stimulation technique, like previous reports on lightfueled swimmers (32, 34), our results buttress the crucial role of optical stimulation in providing not only energy but also positional information for the precise control of the speed and direction of locomotion.”
• Liquid crystal elastomers: an introduction and review of emerging technologies (2018, methodology): “Most LCE soft robots actuate on a significantly longer time scale, ranging anywhere from seconds to several hours [5,8,173,175].”