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  • Soft Robotics
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Microfluidics

Background:

  • Magnetic soft actuators offer advantages like rapid response and biocompatibility for biomedical uses.
  • Current fabrication and magnetization reprogramming methods for magnetic actuators present significant challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a facile and versatile fabrication strategy for magnetic soft actuators.
  • To enable customizable architectures, arbitrary magnetization profiles, and microfluidic integration.
  • To overcome limitations of existing methods regarding complexity and reprogramming.

Main Methods:

  • A novel pixel-assembly approach using reusable magnetic pixels on silicone substrates.
  • Integration of microfluidic functional modules for diverse applications.
  • Demonstration of customizable actuator configurations and biomimetic movements.

Main Results:

  • Achieved customizable magnetic actuators with arbitrary magnetization profiles and decent deformability.
  • Enabled biomimetic movements like grasping, swimming, and wriggling.
  • Successfully integrated microfluidic modules for valve control, fluid mixing, and liquid delivery.

Conclusions:

  • The pixel-assembly method provides a low-cost, rapid, and simplified approach to magnetic actuator fabrication.
  • This technique eliminates the need for complex magnetization processes, offering broad prospects in microfluidics and biomedical fields.