Preparation of pH Responsive Polystyrene and Polyvinyl Pyridine Nanospheres Stabilized by Mickering Microgel Emulsions

Atta, Ayman M.; Ezzat, Abdelrahman O.; Al‐Lohedan, Hamad A.; Tawfeek, Ahmed M.; Alobaidi, Abdulaziz A

doi:10.3390/nano9121693

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“…Carboxylic groups such as poly(acrylic acid) (PAAc) and poly(methacrylic acid) (PMAAc), [164] sulfonic acid such as poly(2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid) (PAMPS) and poly(4-styrenesulfonic acid) (PSSA), [165] phosphonic acid, [166] and boronic acid [167] are the most frequently used acidic groups to develop pH-responsive acidic polymers. Inspired by microorganisms that use flagella for propulsion, researchers fabricated a polymer network using acrylic acid (AAc) as the pH-responsive element along with an acrylamide (AAm)-based hydrogel.…”

Section: Ionization Of Acidic Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Materials, Actuators, and Sensors for Soft Bioinspired Robots

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This review covers recent advancements in the field of bioinspired soft robotics, with a primary focus on the last 4 years (2017)(2018)(2019)(2020). The review serves as a toolbox for an interdisciplinary audience interested in the most recent bioinspired soft robotic technologies. In particular, it highlights and explores the vital components of soft robots, focusing on the enabling mechanisms and their biological inspirations. The first section discusses the materials used to fabricate soft bio inspired robots. Soft bioinspired actuation and sensing are then discussed, exploring their capabilities and implementation by researchers. Existing challenges and future potentials of bioinspired soft robots are addressed in the concluding remarks. This review provides engineers and scientists with the latest technological advancements and information needed for designing and developing the next generation of soft bioinspired robotic systems. The future applications of these robots will be grand and limitless. Materials Used for Bioinspired Sensors and ActuatorsClassical robotic systems are comprised of rigid bodies, actuators, and sensors. Unfortunately, many of these well-developed actuators and sensors are not transferable to soft bodies. Thus, researchers working in soft robotics need to reinvent actuators and sensors for soft moving bodies. Biological organisms can be an excellent inspiration for designing these soft actuators and sensors, allowing for their integration in both soft and rigid bodies. The design process of soft actuators and sensors have to be initiated with material selection and composition, for they are foundations upon which the actuators and sensors will be built around. Presently, a diversified list of materials has been used in the development of soft robotic systems. This section will cover some of the latest advancements in the last 4 years in the area of material selection and composition for the design and development of soft bioinspired actuators and sensors.During the past 4 years, researchers have produced soft bioinspired actuators and sensors using biological material such as muscle tissue, [23,24] and plant fibers; [25] carbon-based materials such as graphite and graphene oxide (GO) [26][27][28][29][30][31] and carbon nanotubes (CN); [32,33] hydrogel materials such as poly(Nisopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM), [34,35] liquid crystal elastomers (LCE), [36] dielectric elastomers (DE), [37] and ionic polymermetal composites (IPMC). [38] An overview of these materials (Figure 1), along with their underlying mechanisms, are discussed below.Biological systems can perform complex tasks with high compliance levels. This makes them a great source of inspiration for soft robotics. Indeed, the union of these fields has brought about bioinspired soft robotics, with hundreds of publications on novel research each year. This review aims to survey fundamental advances in bioinspired soft actuators and sensors with a focus on the progress between 2017 and 2020, providing a primer for the materials used i...

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Section: Ionization Of Acidic Groupsmentioning

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Materials, Actuators, and Sensors for Soft Bioinspired Robots

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“…Chemical-responsive miniature robots have exploited various working mechanisms, and the two most common types are pH-responsive soft actuators and water-based responsive actuators (6,41). The pH-responsive soft actuators will swell or shrink based on the pH level of the environmental fluid (140,(150)(151)(152)154). As many organs or tissues inside the human body naturally have pH variations in their physiological environment, like the vagina, gastrointestinal tract, and blood vessels, the pH-responsive soft actuators have shown potential for many medical applications (6,145).…”

Section: Chemical Actuationmentioning

confidence: 99%