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1i-Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China. wchen2006@sinano.ac.cn.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 21, 2018
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A multi degree of freedom ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) active catheter with controllable bending ability (from micrometer to millimeter level) under a low voltage (∼1.0 V) was developed. And its actuation properties were enhanced effectively through a molecular-regulation strategy.
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