ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2021
Amphibious Transport of Fluids and Solids by Soft Magnetic Carpets.
Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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17 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Wireless Peristaltic Pump for Transporting Viscous Fluids and Solid Cargos in Confined Spaces.Advanced functional materials · 2024Article
- Reconfigurability-Encoded Hierarchical Rectifiers for Versatile 3D Liquid Manipulation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Metachronal Motion of Biological and Artificial Cilia.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Variable Stiffness Fibers Enabled Universal and Programmable Re-Foldability Strategy for Modular Soft Robotics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Diffusive kinks turn kirigami into machines.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Magnetic Janus origami robot for cross-scale droplet omni-manipulation.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Exact and Computationally Robust Solutions for Cylindrical Magnets Systems with Programmable Magnetization.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Kirigami Makes a Soft Magnetic Sheet Crawl.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Review
- Microfluidic Applications of Artificial Cilia: Recent Progress, Demonstration, and Future Perspectives.Micromachines · 2022Review
- Microscopic artificial cilia - a review.Lab on a chip · 2022Review
- 3D Printing Ultraflexible Magnetic Actuators via Screw Extrusion Method.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022Article
- Programmable droplet manipulation and wetting with soft magnetic carpets.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Amphibious Transport of Fluids and Solids by Soft Magnetic Carpets.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2021Article
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Abstract
One of the major challenges in modern robotics is controlling micromanipulation by active and adaptive materials. In the respiratory system, such actuation enables pathogen clearance by means of motile cilia. While various types of artificial cilia have been engineered recently, they often involve complex manufacturing protocols and focus on transporting liquids only. Here, soft magnetic carpets are created via an easy self-assembly route based on the Rosensweig instability. These carpets can transport not only liquids but also solid objects that are larger and heavier than the artificial cilia, using a crowd-surfing effect.This amphibious transportation is locally and reconfigurably tunable by simple micromagnets or advanced programmable magnetic fields with a high degree of spatial resolution. Two surprising cargo reversal effects are identified and modeled due to collective ciliary motion and nontrivial elastohydrodynamics. While the active carpets are generally applicable to integrated control systems for transport, mixing, and sorting, these effects can also be exploited for microfluidic viscosimetry and elastometry.
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