ArticleNature communications2024
Electrically activated ferroelectric nematic microrobots.
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- Task-Oriented Biomedical Microrobots: Access, Working Environment, Actuation, Body Design, Detection and Control.Micromachines · 2026Review
- Printable Bifocal Microlenses from Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystal Droplets.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2026Article
- Guest-Induced Activation of Multicolor Photoluminescence in Naphthalene Bisimide Liquid Crystals.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Molecularly Engineered Fluorescent Magnetic Microrobots for Sensing High-Energy Nitroaromatic Explosives in Highly Acidic Aqueous Environments.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Magneto-Fluorescent Microrobots with Selective Detection Intelligence for High-Energy Explosives and Antibiotics in Aqueous Environments.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2025Article
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Abstract
Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals are fluids exhibiting spontaneous electric polarization, which is coupled to their long range orientational order. Due to their inherent property of making bound and surface charges, the free surface of ferroelectric nematics becomes unstable in electric fields. Here we show that ferroelectric liquid bridges between two electrode plates undergo distinct interfacial instabilities. In a specific range of frequency and voltage, the ferroelectric fluid bridges move as active interacting particles resembling living organisms like swarming insects, microbes or microrobots. The motion is accompanied by sound emission, as a consequence of piezoelectricity and electrostriction. Statistical analysis of the active particles reveals that the movement can be controlled by the applied voltage, which implies the possible application of the system in new types of microfluidic devices.
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