Tubular gel motility driven by chemical reaction networks

Takashi Mikanohara; Shingo Maeda; Yusuke Hara; Shuji Hashimoto

doi:10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181586

Tubular gel motility driven by chemical reaction networks

Takashi Mikanohara^*, Shingo Maeda, Yusuke Hara, Shuji Hashimoto

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Abstract

A novel gel actuator exhibits a peristaltic motion is designed. We proposed a new approach of coupling an acid autocatalytic reaction and a pH-responsive gel in order to cause contraction waves. The poly(AAm-co-AAc) microphase-separated tubular gel was synthesized, which can be inflowed reaction solution to its hollow. We focused on its kinetics and evaluated the characteristics of the microphase-separated gels. And we also demonstrated that the propagation of the contraction region occurs in the tubular gel. Our final goal is to develop a biomimetic chemical robot which realizes a peristaltic locomotion by forming contraction waves like a snail.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011
Pages	2008-2013
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181586
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011 - Phuket Duration: 2011 Dec 7 → 2011 Dec 11

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Other	2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011
City	Phuket
Period	11/12/7 → 11/12/11

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