Chemomechanical Polymer Gel with Fish-like Motion
- 1 May 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures
- Vol. 8 (5), 465-471
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1045389x9700800509
Abstract
A water-swollen polymer gel which swings and undulates water backward was made by applying an electric field and making a reversible assembly-reaction of surfactant on the gel. Using this principle a fish-like soft-machine slowly moving forward by undulating the tail was made. The motion was analyzed and the mechanism was discussed.Keywords
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