Near-Infrared Photodriven Self-Sustained Oscillation of Liquid-Crystalline Network Film with Predesignated Polydopamine Coating
© 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
| Publié dans: | Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 32(2020), 14 vom: 16. Apr., Seite e1906319 |
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| Autres auteurs: | , , , , , , |
| Format: | Article en ligne |
| Langue: | English |
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2020
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| Accès à la collection: | Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) |
| Sujets: | Journal Article liquid-crystalline networks near-infrared-light polydopamine coating programmable materials |
| Résumé: | © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. Movement is one of the vital features of living systems, and remote control of bioinspired soft robotic systems in a precise, contactless and harmless way is extremely desirable but challenging. A near-infrared (NIR) photodriven polymeric oscillator is designed and fabricated by selectively coating a mussel-inspired polydopamine (PDA) polymer layer on the surface of splay-aligned liquid crystalline network (LCN) film. The oscillating motions of the LCN oscillators can be facilely manipulated by tuning light intensity and film thickness. More importantly, the programmability of the PDA coating enables the oscillating behaviors of LCN film to be predesignated and finely adjusted by coating the film with PDA locally and repeatedly. The self-oscillating movement mechanism can be attributed to the temperature oscillation at the PDA-coated LCN film since it is alternatively exposed and sheltered to the NIR-light irradiations. Owing to over 50% NIR irradiation in solar spectrum, PDA-coated film is found to oscillate upon exposure of focused sunlight, presenting great potential in fabrication of solar power generation devices. This provides a versatile strategy to fabricate NIR-light-actuated polymeric oscillators, providing inspirations in the development of biological soft robots and advanced biomimetic devices |
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| Description: | Date Revised 30.09.2020 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1521-4095 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/adma.201906319 |