动态结合启用了环境驱动的电机
Muqing Si1,2,3, Zixiao Liu2, Chi Chen2
1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Marine Materials, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Extreme-environmental Material Surfaces and Interfaces, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
|November 5, 2025
概括
研究人员开发了受细菌启发的自振动电机. 这些协调电动振荡器 (CoMOs) 收集环境能量,为宏观运动提供动力,从而实现具有适应性移动的新型软机器人.
科学领域:
- 材料科学 材料科学 材料科学
- 软机器人软机器人 软机器人软机器人
- 超分子化学 超分子化学
背景情况:
- 生物系统高效地将低密度的能量转化为运动,这对于人工系统来说是一项具有挑战性的壮举,因为它需要大量的能量和复杂的控制.
- 沙门氏菌的动态离子结合协调激发了人工系统中连续运动的新方法.
研究的目的:
- 引入一种新的自我振荡电机概念,通过分子级动态键使用环境能量收获环境能量.
- 开发一种协调电动振荡器 (CoMO),能够从微不足道的能源中驱动宏观的,自我维持的行为.
- 为了证明创造具有先进机动能力的环境驱动机器人的潜力.
主要方法:
- 开发一种用于协调电动振荡器 (CoMO) 的新型超分子聚二甲基 (PDMS) 材料.
- 利用该材料显著的热膨胀能力 (正常PDMS的25倍,约2000倍的被动层) 来获取能量.
- 使用由环境能量 (例如体温) 触发的协调交叉链的可逆解离来产生宏观振荡.
主要成果:
- CoMO成功地收集了环境能量,将分子过渡转化为持续的宏观振荡.
- 通过多个CoMO单元的集体行为证明了宏观运动的放大.
- 实现了环境驱动的协调电机机器人 (CoMbot) 的开发,这些机器人表现出多模式的机动和地形适应性.
结论:
- 开发的CoMO原则为自我维持系统中的化学机械合提供了一个新的范式.
- 这种方法为强大的过渡机械转换材料铺平了道路.
- 突出了创建由环境能量驱动的具有前所未有的能力的先进软机械的潜力.
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