ArticleNature communications2024
Solvent-adaptive hydrogels with lamellar confinement cellular structure for programmable multimodal locomotion.
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Abstract
Biological organisms can perform flexible and controllable multimodal motion under external stimuli owing to the hierarchical assembly of anisotropic structures across multiple length scales. However, artificial soft actuators exhibit the limited response speed, deformation programmability and movement capability especially in harsh environments because of insufficient anisotropic hierarchy and precision in structural design. Here, we report a programmed assembly directed confinement polymerization method for the fabrication of environmentally tolerant and fast responsive hydrogels with lamellar assembly-confined cellular structure interpenetrated with highly aligned nanopillars by the directional freezing-assisted polymerization in the predesigned anisotropic laminar scaffold. The obtained hydrogel exhibits ultrafast responsiveness and anisotropic deformation exposed to temperature/light/solvent stimulation, maintaining highly consistent responsive deformation capability in all-polarity solvents over 100 days of soaking. Moreover, the hydrogels implement photoactive programmable multi-gait locomotion whose amplitude and directionality are precisely regulated by the intrinsic structure, including controlled crawling and rotation in water and non-polar solvents, and 3D self-propulsion floating and swimming in polar solvents. Thus, this hydrogel with hierarchically ordered structure and dexterous locomotion may be suitable for flexible intelligent actuators serving in harsh solvent environments.
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