@article{766e53eb7d654987a09d6746491f5e45,
title = "Peristaltic motion of tubular gel driven by acid-autocatalytic reaction",
abstract = "A novel gel actuator exhibits a peristaltic motion is designed. We proposed a new approach of coupling an acid-autocatalytic reaction and a pH-responsive gel in order to cause contraction waves. The poly(AAm-co-AAc) microphase-separated tubular gel was synthesized, which can be inflowed reaction solution to its hollow. We focused on its kinetics and evaluated the characteristics of the microphase-separated gels. And we also demonstrated that the propagation of the contraction region occurs in the tubular gel. Our final goal is to develop a biomimetic chemical robot, which realizes a peristaltic locomotion by forming contraction waves like a snail.",
keywords = "chemical robot, gel actuator, pH-responsive gel, peristaltic motion, polymerization",
author = "Takashi Mikanohara and Shingo Maeda and Yusuke Hara and Shuji Hashimoto",
note = "Funding Information: researcher in Nanosystem Research Institute (NRI), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central 5-2, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan. He received his MS degree from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan in 2001. From 2001 to 2007, he worked Lion Corporation, Research and development center, Tokyo, Japan. He received his Dr Eng. Degrees in Department of Materials Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2007. His research interests are polymer science, gel and non-linear chemistry. He is a member of the Chemical Society of Japan and the Society of Polymer Science, Japan. Funding Information: This work was supported in part by Global COE Program {\textquoteleft}Global Robot Academia{\textquoteright} from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan; Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research (24656177); Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) (23686043); Grant for Advanced Industrial Technology Development from New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).",
year = "2014",
month = apr,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1080/01691864.2013.876934",
language = "English",
volume = "28",
pages = "457--465",
journal = "Advanced Robotics",
issn = "0169-1864",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "7",
}