Phototunable self-oscillating system driven by a self-winding fiber actuator.

ABSTRACT: Self-oscillating systems that enable autonomous, continuous motions driven by an unchanging, constant stimulus would have significant applications in intelligent machines, advanced robotics, and biomedical devices. Despite efforts to gain self-oscillations have been made through artificial systems using responsive soft materials of gels or liquid crystal polymers, these systems are plagued with problems that restrict their practical applicability: few available oscillation modes due to limited degrees of freedom, inability to control the evolution between different modes, and failure under loading. Here we create a phototunable self-oscillating system that possesses a broad range of oscillation modes, controllable evolution between diverse modes, and loading capability. This self-oscillati

SUBMITTER: Hu Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8163889 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature