Magnetoactive Millirobots with Ternary Phase Transition
Huangsan Wei,
Bonan Sun,
Shengyuan Zhang
et al.
Abstract:Magnetoactive soft millirobots have made significant advances in programmable deformation, multimodal locomotion, and untethered manipulation in unreachable regions. However, the inherent limitations are manifested in the solidphase millirobot as limited deformability and in the liquid-phase millirobot as low stiffness. Herein, we propose a ternary-state magnetoactive millirobot based on a phase transitional polymer embedded with magnetic nanoparticles. The millirobot can reversibly transit among the liquid, s… Show more
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