Tetherless thermobiochemically actuated microgrippers
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Tetherless thermobiochemically actuated microgrippers.
We demonstrate mass-producible, tetherless microgrippers that can be remotely triggered by temperature and chemicals under biologically relevant conditions. The microgrippers use a self-contained actuation response, obviating the need for external tethers in operation. The grippers can be actuated en masse, even while spatially separated. We used the microgrippers to perform diverse functions, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807698106