Thermoresponsive actuation enabled by permittivity switching in an electrostatically anisotropic hydrogel

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1002-1007

  Kim, Youn Soo ^a   Liu, Mingjie ^b   Ishida, Yasuhiro ^b   Ebina, Yasuo ^c   Osada, Minoru ^c   Sasaki, Takayoshi ^c   Hikima, Takaaki ^d   Takata, Masaki ^d   Aida, Takuzo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d RIKEN SPring 8 Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ANISOTROPY; ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS; ELECTROSTATICS; NANOSHEETS; PERMITTIVITY;

ANISOTROPIC HYDROGELS; ELECTROSTATIC REPULSION; HEATING AND COOLING; HYDROGEL ACTUATORS; LAYERED STRUCTURES; LOWER CRITICAL SOLUTION TEMPERATURE; SURFACE FRICTION; THERMO-RESPONSIVE;

HYDROGELS;

EID: 84942296956     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4363     Document Type: Article

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