TY - GEN
T1 - Soft Spiral-Shaped Micro-Swimmer with Propulsion Force Control by Pitch Change
AU - Yoshida, Koki
AU - Onoe, Hiroaki
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (18H03868), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - This paper describes a soft spiral-shaped micro-swimmer with propulsion force controlled by pitch change. Soft spiral-shaped micro-swimmers, made of stimuli-responsive hydrogel encapsulating magnetic nanoparticles, were continuously formed by using a bevel-tip capillary. We achieved the pitch change of the double-layered micro-swimmer by temperature stimulus and confirmed that the propulsion force of the swimmer was controlled by the pitch change. We believe that our micro-swimmer could pave the way to various microscale biochemical applications such as autonomous soft-robots and soft micro-probes for intricate environment.
AB - This paper describes a soft spiral-shaped micro-swimmer with propulsion force controlled by pitch change. Soft spiral-shaped micro-swimmers, made of stimuli-responsive hydrogel encapsulating magnetic nanoparticles, were continuously formed by using a bevel-tip capillary. We achieved the pitch change of the double-layered micro-swimmer by temperature stimulus and confirmed that the propulsion force of the swimmer was controlled by the pitch change. We believe that our micro-swimmer could pave the way to various microscale biochemical applications such as autonomous soft-robots and soft micro-probes for intricate environment.
KW - Hydrogel
KW - Magnetic actuation
KW - Pitch change
KW - Soft Robot
KW - Stimuli-responsive hydrogel
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U2 - 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2019.8808332
DO - 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2019.8808332
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85071943188
T3 - 2019 20th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems and Eurosensors XXXIII, TRANSDUCERS 2019 and EUROSENSORS XXXIII
SP - 217
EP - 220
BT - 2019 20th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems and Eurosensors XXXIII, TRANSDUCERS 2019 and EUROSENSORS XXXIII
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 20th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems and Eurosensors XXXIII, TRANSDUCERS 2019 and EUROSENSORS XXXIII
Y2 - 23 June 2019 through 27 June 2019
ER -