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Hydraulic hydrogel actuators and robots optically and sonically camouflaged in water
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Sea animals such as leptocephali develop tissues and organs composed of active transparent hydrogels to achieve agile motions and natural camouflage in water. Hydrogel-based actuators that can imitate the capabilities of leptocephali will enable new applications in diverse fields. However, existing hydrogel actuators, mostly osmotic-driven, are intrinsically low-speed and/or low-force; and their camouflage capabilities have not been explored. Here we show that hydraulic actuations of hydrogels with designed structures and properties can give soft actuators and robots that are high-speed, high-force, and optically and sonically camouflaged in water. The hydrogel actuators and robots can maintain their robustness and functionality over multiple cycles of actuations, owing to the anti-fatigue property of the hydrogel under moderate stresses. We further demonstrate that the agile and transparent hydrogel actuators and robots perform extraordinary functions including swimming, kicking rubber-balls and even catching a live fish in water.
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- Authors
- Yuk, H., Lin, S., Ma, C., Takaffoli, M., Fang, N. X., & Zhao, X.
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2017-02-01
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 14230-14230
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2584350454
- Cited by
- 988
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 75.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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