Department of Materials Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
Sensors (Basel). 2010;10(3):1810-22. doi: 10.3390/s100301810. Epub 2010 Mar 5.
As a novel biomimetic polymer, we have developed polymer gels with an autonomous self-oscillating function. This was achieved by utilizing oscillating chemical reactions, called the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction, which is recognized as a chemical model for understanding several autonomous phenomena in biological systems. Under the coexistence of the reactants, the polymer gel undergoes spontaneous swelling-deswelling changes without any on-off switching by external stimuli. In this review, our recent studies on the self-oscillating polymer gels and application to biomimetic actuators are summarized.
作为一种新型仿生聚合物，我们开发出具有自主自振荡功能的聚合物凝胶。这是通过利用称为 Belousov-Zhabotinsky（BZ）反应的振荡化学反应来实现的，该反应被认为是理解生物系统中几种自主现象的化学模型。在反应物共存的情况下，聚合物凝胶在没有任何外部刺激的开-关切换的情况下自发地经历溶胀-收缩变化。在这篇综述中，我们总结了最近关于自振荡聚合物凝胶及其在仿生致动器中的应用的研究。
