Light-Driven Shape Morphing, Assembly, and Motion of Nanocomposite Gel Surfers

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 31(2019), 27 vom: 02. Juli, Seite e1900932
1. Verfasser: Kim, Hyunki (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Kang, Ji-Hwan, Zhou, Ying, Kuenstler, Alexa S, Kim, Yongjin, Chen, Chao, Emrick, Todd, Hayward, Ryan C
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2019
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article capillary assembly light-responsive materials nanoparticle patterning shape-morphing hydrogels sustained motion
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:© 2019 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
Patterning of nanoparticles (NPs) via photochemical reduction within thermally responsive hydrogel films is demonstrated as a versatile platform for programming light-driven shape morphing and materials assembly. Responsive hydrogel disks, containing patterned metal NPs, form characteristic wrinkled structures when illuminated at an air/water interface. The resulting distortion of the three-phase (air/water/hydrogel) contact lines induces capillary interactions between two or more disks, which are either attractive or repulsive depending on the selected pattern of light. By programming the shapes of the NP-rich regions, as well as of the hydrogel objects themselves, the number and location of attractive interactions are specified, and the assembly geometry is controlled. Remarkably, appropriately patterned illumination enables sustained rotation and motion of the hydrogel disks. Overall, these results offer insight into a wide variety of shape-programmable materials and capillary assemblies, simply by controlling the NP patterns and illumination of these soft materials
Beschreibung:Date Revised 01.10.2020
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.201900932